Category Archives: Nutrition

PODCAST: Powerlifting Nutrition with Lyle McDonald!

There are a TON of stories and tangents in this one guys, but the topics range from optimal macro composition for a powerlifting diet, to how to pick your weight class, to when to move… More

EatingToWinTwo is Finally Here!

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The Best Supplements for Powerlifting

In this installment of the Powerlifting Nutrition Series, we’re going to tackle one of those most controversial areas of nutrition: supplementation. If you’d rat… More

Eating “Healthy” for Powerlifting

The next stop in the Powerlifting Nutrition series is a topic called micronutrition. In other words, what we’re talking about here is “eating healthy” for po… More

Meal Frequency and Nutrient Timing in Powerlifting

In this installment of the PowerliftingToWin Nutrition Series, we’re going to tackle an incredibly popular topic in the health and fitness world: meal frequency and nutr… More

Setting Up Your Powerlifting Macros

While it has certainly been a while since the last installment of the Powerlifting Nutrition Series, the show must go on. Beginning with this article, we’re going to discus… More

How To Diet for Powerlifting

Thus far in the powerlifting nutrition series, we’ve really outed the WHY and the WHAT behind powerlifting nutrition. Now that we’ve got those pieces in place, we ne… More

Cutting Weight Powerlifting: 2 Hour and 24 Hour Weigh Ins

Let’s talk about how to cut weight for powerlifting! In the last article in the nutrition series, we discussed when to move up a weight class. If you’ll recall, our rule for de… More

Nutritional Strategies for Powerlifting

For whatever reason, people get very adversarial about their programming plans. As you all know, we just HAVE to have those debates about what is better: 5/3/1 or Cube, Sheiko or S… More

When Should You Move Up A Weight Class In Powerlifting?

In the first articles in the nutrition series, we established that Powerlifting Nutrition primarily serves two purposes: performance enhancement and weight management. In th… More

Steroids vs. Natural Training

I recently received a great question on the differences between programming for the natural and the enhanced lifter. From reading or watching the Powerlifting Programming Seri… More

The Best Way To Measure Body Fat for Powerlifting

In the last installment of the Nutrition Series, I discussed how to optimally cut and bulk for powerlifting. One of the main tenets of the strategy I advocated was that one should bu… More

Powerlifting Diet: Cutting and Bulking

In the inaugural edition of the PowerliftingToWin Nutrition Series, we established that nutrition in Powerlifting serves primarily two purposes: 1) weight management and 2) p… More

Powerlifting Nutrition: How To Pick Your Weight Class

So begins the PowerliftingToWin Nutrition Series! Nutrition, in powerlifting, primarily serves two purposes: 1) performance enhancement and 2) weight management. When don… More