Power Eating, Third Edition
by Susan Kleiner, Maggie Greenwood-Robinson
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Author: Maggie Greenwood-Robinson, Susan KleinerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-30
ISBN: 0736066985
Number of pages: 328
Publisher: Human Kinetics
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Book Review: Great All-Around Resource for Active Nutrition
Summary: 5 Stars
Power Eating is one of the most practical, common-sense guides to nutrition for the active person that you'll find on the shelf today. Written by an educated nutritionist and dietician, this book is devoid of much of the bravado and extreme advice that plagues books written by bodybuilders and miscellaneous charlatans. This isn't a guide on how to "get jacked" or look like a "freak." It's a book for the "train to live" crowd rather than the "live to train" group.
Dr. Kleiner advocates a diet based on whole foods and shoves supplements back into the niche where they belong. People often forget that bodybuilding magazines are almost wholly supported by sponsorship from supplement companies, and they have a vested interest in painting those products as vital for getting in shape. For the most part, supplements are highly dispensable, and the author is very forthright in her approach to the subject. Basically, she identifies the gold-standard supplements that are supported by clinical research (caffeine, whey protein, creatine) and categorizes the rest based on the information in the literature. It may be disturbing for some to see that the vast majority of supplements are either unproven or potentially harmful.
The one caveat I will issue about this book is that it is general in its approach. It's not specifically a bodybuilding nutrition book, and the author doesn't delve into the more lurid details of bulking cycles or other such topics that primarily interest the chemical sports society. She also avoids tackling the specifics of nutritional biochemistry, a decision I believe adds greatly to the clarity of the book. The author instead chooses to keep the book on a practical basis. This is a positive thing in a world in which so many people are suffering from analysis paralysis in their nutrition programs. If you are specifically interested in bodybuilding nutrition, you should probably look elsewhere, because that isn't the focus of the book.
Power Eating addresses nutrition for gaining muscle, but it also focuses on nutrition for performance, a welcome change from the vanity-based programs that have become so common. Low-carb junkies will probably be appalled at some of her recommendations, but that's more a sign of how far off track that fad has gone. Michael Phelps was skinny while eating 10,000 calories of carb-laden fare a day because he trained like an animal. The fact is he had to have those calories to fuel his training. Certainly anyone who isn't eating carbs isn't training very hard.
One of the most important and helpful aspects to Dr. Kleiner's diets is that she encourages dieters interested in fat loss to keep calorie intake high rather than go to the big deficits that many people adopt. Her approach is the high energy flux, slow weight-loss method of body recomposition. She encourages people to maintain a small deficit while eating nutritious foods in order to avoid the starvation response and preserve lean body mass. While the extremely obese can get away with cutting calories heavily at first, almost everyone else will do better with this approach. It isn't a sexy idea, though, because it doesn't promise the massive, overnight, miracle weight loss that so many people are seeking. She does this because that type of weight loss is often only transitory. Slow, steady body recomposition is much more effective at creating long-term body transformation.
The book has detailed programs in the back for different goals (i.e. gain muscle, lose fat) along with sample menus and recipes. Overall, there's enough information here to work with but not so much that it gets in the way of a clear understanding of how to accomplish one's goals.
Summary of Power Eating, Third Edition
No other nutrition program will enable you to gain muscle and power?while trimming body fat?more effectively than Power Eating, the leading plan for power athletes, strength trainers, and bodybuilders.
Authored by a consultant to NFL and NBA players and world-class bodybuilders, Power Eating combines the most up-to-date scientific and practical advice to address the unique nutritional requirements of the power athlete. The result is an approach that has helped thousands of athletes reach their physique and performance goals?safely and legally.
This third edition incorporates the latest nutrition principles and recommendations, specifically addressing and dispelling the myths about carbohydrate and its role in a power athlete's diet. A revised supplement rating system incorporates new IOC rules and makes the latest findings on vitamins and minerals, muscle-building products, and performance-related herbs easier to find. And the inclusion of more recipes and meal plans will provide greater variety for athletes on specialized eating plans.
Incorporate the Power Eating plan into your training and find out what thousands of athletes already know. Power Eating is more than a book. It's a path to power excellence.
Beyond the fad weight-loss diets, beyond the bodybuilding mythology about excessive amounts of protein for making muscle, beyond the nonsense that circulates about nutrition in the world today, there is a body of scientific knowledge that shows us a road map to our goals. For example, Susan Kleiner shares a formula to determine exactly how much protein the bodies of strength trainers and bodybuilders can use before storing the extra as fat, why amino-acid supplements are a very expensive and somewhat inferior substitute for simple foods such as yogurt and chicken, and why carbohydrates, not protein, are the most important nutrients for muscle building. Many of the recommendations seem so simple--"eat fruits and vegetables," for example--but Power Eating shows us that sometimes the oldest advice in the world is perfectly aligned with modern nutritional science, whereas the complex solutions dreamed up by bodybuilding gurus and supplement manufacturers don't always stand up to rigorous analysis.
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