There’s lifting weights, then there’s powerlifting. There’s sleeping, then there’s power sleeping. Finally, there’s eating, and then there’s POWER EATING. If you want to be the best, you’ve got to train using the best possible methods. If you want to be the most rested, the same rule applies. And if you want the most power in your diet – power being the result of multiplying strength times speed – then you are going to want to employ power eating.

Power eating is performance based dieting. You aren’t restricting calories, and you aren’t going overboard either. Rather, you are working to create an anabolic environment within your body which will in turn allow you to train with an insane amount of strength and speed. Every three hours, you will give your body a nice mix of protein and fat, coupled with as much carbohydrates as you can consume without exceeding what your body can utilize.

This kind of dieting is NOT designed for the skinny model type. Nor is it designed for those looking to just add a few pounds of muscle. No, you use power eating if you are into power lifting, and you want to look like a powerful person. If you train to ‘tone’, then you should eat for that same purpose as well. However, if you train to pile slabs of beef upon your arms, legs, back, delts and chest, then you should be eating that same way. Your plate should be piled high with slabs of beef, stacked upon piles of mashed potatoes, for example.

Every one of your meals will be designed by you. You aren’t going to be following a cookie cutter diet. You aren’t going to be measuring grams or calories. You are going to be building a stack of food, and then devouring it! If you want to look like a 170 pound lifter, then by all means, continue training and eating just like one. But if you follow around a 230-pound behemoth for a day, you’ll quickly discover what power lifting and power eating is really all about. They don’t count their calories, they count how many plates of muscle building food that they eat. That is the key! Don’t count calories – count platefuls!

Rather, you will train with power, then eat with that same intensity. Pile your plate high with solid protein sources such as beef, chicken, and pork. Next to it, stack up the potatoes, pasta, rice and corn with a little gravy to help wash it all down. Eat fast, and eat a lot of it.

If you aren’t training correctly, then you aren’t going to eat correctly. Why? Because your body will not crave, and will not be able to consume, enough calories of the right variety to grow, if you’re not creating that demand. If you are truly training like an animal, then you are going to need that much food to keep your body satisfied. So get lifting, get eating, and do it all with power!

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