Is there any benefit to sports nutrition in powerlifting?

Why take sports nutrition? Many will say that you can do without it! That's right, a person can live without a computer, and without a car, and without a mobile phone, but without all this, what will be the effectiveness, quality and speed of his work? It’s the same with sports nutrition: it’s possible without it, but you can immediately forget about real significant, tangible successes, and even in a short period of time...

1. Increasing strength and durability!
2. Gaining the right weight.
3. Supplements specifically for lifters.
4. Prevention of injuries.
5. Conclusion and epilogue.

Does a lifter need sports nutrition?

Now let's look at the second side of the question: how will sports nutrition benefit an athlete specifically in powerlifting? Undoubtedly, a bodybuilder needs sports nutrition - that’s a fact! But maybe the lifter doesn’t need it at all? The lifter, after all, has completely different tasks: he doesn’t need big and beautiful sculpted muscles at all, he doesn’t flaunt them... After all, all he actually needs is strength to perform just three qualifying exercises as efficiently as possible...

Increasing strength and durability!

However, at its core, the importance of sports nutrition for a powerlifter is the same as for a bodybuilder, the only difference is in the focus on the desired result - the targeted development of muscle strength and bone strength and ligamentous apparatus for lifting extreme weights!

Gaining the right weight.

Also, for a powerlifter, one of the main guidelines is the weight category in which he competes, and with it comes the goal of gaining additional muscle mass. That is, the main thing in powerlifting is every possible improvement in strength indicators and rapid recovery after training, as well as increasing energy during them.

Every athlete must understand that a lack of one or another “building” material threatens him with slower growth and possible injury. To avoid this, you need to take proteins, various gainers, and pure carbohydrates. Both in lifting and in bodybuilding, without a proper diet, training makes no sense at all, but thanks to only natural food it is impossible to replenish the necessary protein reserves, for this we need protein shakes. With their help, it is possible to increase the protein intake required by the body to 3 grams per kilogram of body weight. Also, in the off-season, a powerlifter can use creatine, tribulus extract, various vitamin and mineral complexes and other additives and pharmacological agents to ensure strength growth...

Prevention of injuries.

And another one of the most important tasks for a lifter is injury prevention, namely maintaining strong and healthy joints, ligaments and bones. Because when lifting extreme, prohibitively heavy weights, this moment is certainly of great importance...

One can argue long and hard about who is exposed to more load, the lifter or the builder, because in one case the load is very large for small repetitions, and in the second there is a large number of repetitions and, as a result, rapid wear and tear from this. But in the end, we all come to the conclusion that it is necessary to use calcium, chondroitin, glucosamine and collagen supplements in iron sports. These supplements are now a must in the diet of any athlete!

From all of the above, we conclude that sports nutrition definitely has benefits in powerlifting. And not just a benefit, but an urgent need! No modern professional lifter is in any way limited to just the usual diet from his dinner table. This practice, alas, has long since become a thing of the past...

Using knowledge about the importance of sports nutrition, you can effectively and without inhibitions get the maximum benefit from your workouts in an extremely short time, which is what we wish you with all our hearts!

Table of contents:

1. For the elevator operator
2. Strength and durability
3. Weight gain
4. What to take?
5. Prevention of injuries.
6. Epilogue.