About Me

For whom this blog concerns: welcome!

My name is Erik McLeod.  I'm a Kinesiology major at George Mason University, and this is my blog where I will ramble about pre-, intra-, and post-workout nutrition, specifically for powerlifters.

Some quick info about me: I love strength sport, I love training people, I love coaching people, I love educating people, and I love lifting heavy things, particularly off of the floor.  My dreams are to succeed as a strength coach and meet handler, and to become a freakish deadlifter.

Picking this topic was a no-brainer for me.  I train for strength, I eat a lot, and I always make sure to surround and fill each of my training sessions with calories.

Meal timing (especially peri-workout nutrition) has certainly received its fair share of well-earned criticism due to its roots in bro-science and misinformation.  But one thing is for certain: how you feel and perform depends on what and when you eat.

For someone seriously interested in getting strong, what you eat, and when you eat, while lifting multi-hundred-pound pieces of knurled metal for 2-3hrs per day, 3-6 days per week, is pretty darn important.  A forgotten pre-workout meal can cause serious energy drainage early into a session.  Eat too soon before a session and you'll never want to brace against a belt ever again.  Forget to bring or get a post-workout meal and you'll turn into a sociopath with hunger pains and low blood sugar.  The list goes on.  As I always say, "there's nothing worse than a hungry powerlifter."

But regardless, this topic is important to me and everyone else interested in becoming strong, and that's why I'm writing about it.

I hope to have some interesting things to say about this topic, and I hope you all enjoy reading it.

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