Diet for the Powerlifter

**PeteG** · 19-12-2010 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by James Copping

The main difference is that ultra low carbs dont work. Not for me anyway, my strength and work capacity just died.

Thats what I have found, I struggle to do my jobs around the farm each day if I drop below 250, let alone train. I have read about the adaption phase, but was not adapting after 2-3 weeks on low carb. I did sort of try cycling, by having 250g of carbs a day and then have a Pizza twice a week and that was much better, did not run out of energy at all really, was still losing fat and I could eat Piazza, which has to be a bonus!

**comanight2** · 19-12-2010 11:40 AM

my DR is about 2750

**James Copping** · 19-12-2010 11:57 AM

Something like

Protein 200g (800cal)
Fat 100g (900 cal)

Workout days 250g carbs (1000cal)
Rest days 100g carbs (400cal)

So you will be maintenance on workout days and 600cal under rest days.

**comanight2** · 19-12-2010 12:14 PM

awesome, cheers James!

**Bobby-bandito** · 19-12-2010 01:13 PM

Diet for the powerlifter - Pizza, Cake, Kebab, Cookies, Steak and.... Babies?

Oh right! YOU MEAN the POWERBUILDERS?! (new age powerlifters that have an emphasis on looking good I mean, er, being more competetive in weight classes!)

A bodybuilding diet with a slight twist really. Lots of people advocate carb cycling but alot of them also advocate the traditional method of dieting (large quantity of meals over the day with more cardio and GPP put in)...

You can swing it both ways to be honest depending on how your body likes its meals and what it does with the content of each! Have you considered asking a few strongmen for their diet preferences? Not being stereotypical but most strongmen come from a labourious background but still manage to look good, er, competetive whilst being strong aswell!

**PeteG** · 11-01-2011 07:06 PM

Any one tried carb back loading? This seems to contradict bodybuilding type diet theory i.e. eat most of your carbs during the day, then less before bed. With back loading you eat little or no carbs during the day and before training, then after training stuff your face with carbs. Obviously not a bodybuilding diet, but some powerlifters are claiming a 5% increase in strength with this diet whilst loosing or maintaining body weight. see here

Carb Back-Loading: The Final Follow Up | Dangerously Hardcore

**beN123** · 11-01-2011 07:18 PM

Carb cycling is becoming quite popular lately. Eating almost all of your carbs in the PWO window while keeping carbs minimal for the rest of the time (days off too) seems to be having some good effects. People even find they can have food that usually they can't usually at all PWO, the body seems quite different.

**PeteG** · 27-01-2011 11:54 PM

Been putting on about 0.5Kg/week since I started training after Christmas and eating clean. Am now 0.5Kg over my intended competition weight (110Kg). So I have started cycling the carbs. Had a low day then a high day when I trained and I went up 1Kg! Lets hope this is just a glitch, as I only have 3 weeks to go. Maybe the carbs were not low enough, as I had 150 on rest days and about 300 on training days.