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Pick your jaw off the floor. That’s no misprint. In bodybuilding circles common wisdom holds that nutrition is 75 percent of success in weight training, while the training itself is only 25 percent. The fact is, nutrition has very little to do with your success in moving a lot of heavy iron. How can that be? And if I’m right, why have you been shoveling six meals a day down your throat and counting your protein intake as if your life were at stake?
To begin with, nutrition is more important of bodybuilding purposes than it is for strength building. When it comes to intense strength training, such as that done by powerlifters and strongman competitors, however, nutrition really isn’t that big of a deal.
You don’t believe me? Just check out the powerlifters’ programs, and you’ll find only one or two who actually count calories and protein. At the Westside Barbell Club in Columbus, Ohio, Simmons and his followers don’t even begin to think about following a diet. They simply eat whatever they want. Are they successful? You bet. At the 2003 World Bench Press Championships they swept every single weight class. All from a little gym where the lifters don’t pay attention to what they eat.
The Russian powerlifters have dominated the sport for years, and you know what? Some of them eat little more than bread and potatoes year-round, and they don’t get near the protein the Americans do. Yet they lift more than the rest of the world.
Why isn’t nutrition important? The answer is fairly simple: It’s the training that’s important. Take two lifters of about the same weight, age, training experience and strength. Put one of them on a bodybuilding program and a strict nutritional regimen, and put the other on a proven strength regimen and let him eat-or not eat-whatever he wants. You know who will be the strongest at the end of the program? Without a doubt the second lifter.
A lot of strength programs focus on increasing neural strength and making the motor units fire faster and more efficiently. There’s no secert diet you can follow that will make your body move heavy iron with force more efficiently.
To begin with, nutrition is more important of bodybuilding purposes than it is for strength building. When it comes to intense strength training, such as that done by powerlifters and strongman competitors, however, nutrition really isn’t that big of a deal.
You don’t believe me? Just check out the powerlifters’ programs, and you’ll find only one or two who actually count calories and protein. At the Westside Barbell Club in Columbus, Ohio, Simmons and his followers don’t even begin to think about following a diet. They simply eat whatever they want. Are they successful? You bet. At the 2003 World Bench Press Championships they swept every single weight class. All from a little gym where the lifters don’t pay attention to what they eat.
The Russian powerlifters have dominated the sport for years, and you know what? Some of them eat little more than bread and potatoes year-round, and they don’t get near the protein the Americans do. Yet they lift more than the rest of the world.
Why isn’t nutrition important? The answer is fairly simple: It’s the training that’s important. Take two lifters of about the same weight, age, training experience and strength. Put one of them on a bodybuilding program and a strict nutritional regimen, and put the other on a proven strength regimen and let him eat-or not eat-whatever he wants. You know who will be the strongest at the end of the program? Without a doubt the second lifter.
A lot of strength programs focus on increasing neural strength and making the motor units fire faster and more efficiently. There’s no secert diet you can follow that will make your body move heavy iron with force more efficiently.
