Power Eating: Build Muscle Boost Energy Cut Fat (2nd Edition)

Need to gain muscle while cutting fat? Follow the number one plan for athletes, strength trainers, and bodybuilders.

Written by a consultant to the NBA, NFL, and world-class bodybuilders, Power Eating is your nutritional guidebook to a strong and sculpted physique. Unlike most other nutrition books, this resource focuses on the diet of the strength trainer and serious bodybuilder to show you how to add mass and gain strength.

Power Eating contains the latest scientific and practical advice on how to eat to build strength and power, increase energy, and lose fat. The new material on supplements includes up-to-date information on vitamins and minerals, muscle-building products, and performance herbs. You can use Kleiner’s own rating system to make informed decisions on whether particular supplements are worth the investment, possibly useful, a waste of time, or harmful.

Use the Power Eating diet plans to get your body where you want it to be, when you want it to be there—and keep you healthy, safe, and legal. You can have it all—with Power Eating!

Susan M. Kleiner holds a PhD in nutrition and human performance from Case Western Reserve University and currently serves as a nutrition consultant to GNC and to the Seattle SuperSonics. She has consulted numerous other strength and bodybuilding athletes, including sports teams in the NFL and NBA. She serves on the advisory boards for Shape and Let’s Live Magazine/Physical, and she is the nutrition column editor for Athletic Therapy Today. She writes frequent columns and features for magazines ranging from Muscle & Fitness to Parenting.

A registered dietitian, Kleiner is a fellow in the American College of Nutrition, who honored her with a Young Investigator Award in 1987 for her work on the influence of diet and anabolic steroids on competitive male bodybuilders. She is an Associate Member of Sigma Xi, a scientific research society, and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine; the National Strength and Conditioning Association; the American Dietetic Association; and the Sport, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists.

Kleiner lives in Mercer Island, Washington, with her husband Jeffrey Kanter and their two daughters. In her free time she enjoys skiing, strength training, and spending time with her family in the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest.

A certified nutrition counselor, Maggie Greenwood-Robinson has authored or coauthored 17 books in the health and fitness field. She writes the Natural Dieter column for Let’s Live magazine and the Body Shop column for Christian Single. She is also a member of the advisory board for Physical magazine.

Greenwood-Robinson’s articles have appeared in Women’s Sports and Fitness, Working Woman, MuscleMag International, Ironman, Muscle and Fitness, Female Bodybuilding, and many other publications. She has conducted seminars on strength training, exercise motivation, diet and nutrition, fat loss, and couple’s fitness; she has also taught bodyshaping classes at the University of Southern Indiana.

Greenwood-Robinson has a PhD in nutrition counseling from LaSalle University. She and her husband Jeff live in Destin, Florida, where she enjoys weight training and walking the beach.