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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

What should powerlifters eat to maximize performance? | Guest: Dan Feldman, RD

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Powerlifter and Registered Dietitian Dan Feldman guests this episode to break down some nutrition strategies for competitive powerlifters. Is a crazy amount of protein necessary? Are carbs around workouts good or bad?

You can find Dan on Instagram @powerlifterdietitian https://www.instagram.com/powerlifterdietitian/. Shoot him a follow.

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0:00.0

Okay, today I've got Dan Feldman.

0:13.3

You might know him on Instagram as the powerlifting dietitian.

0:18.8

Dan, just tell the folks a little bit about yourself.

0:22.8

Yeah, thank you, Jim, for having me on.

0:24.4

So, yeah, like you said, obviously, my name is Dan Feldman.

0:27.4

I am known on Instagram as power lifter dietitian, very original, very original name.

0:34.9

Obviously, I'm a decent powerlifter. I put up some halfway decent numbers on the local

0:41.2

level, nothing, anything too crazy. And also obviously, per my username, I'm also a registered

0:46.7

dietitian here in the U.S. based in the New York, New Jersey area. Also with my master's degree in

0:53.4

human nutrition, you know, spend much of my time

0:57.6

seeing patients, seeing clients one-on-one. Usually, you know, weight loss, muscle gain,

1:03.9

that kind of thing, although occasionally I work with, you know, general pop folks who maybe

1:10.0

have like prediabetes or high cholesterol or stuff

1:13.3

like that. Um, yeah, so pretty much much my life is, uh, focused around, obviously dietetics,

1:21.0

working with patients and, uh, um, trying to be a halfway decent power lifter. Yeah, cool.

1:27.6

What, what are some of your numbers just out of curiosity?

1:30.7

Yeah.

1:31.2

So, um, in competition, my best squat is, uh, I'm just going to do pounds.

1:39.7

I'm not doing the kilo math right now.

1:41.2

4.20, whatever the, the kilo equivalent is like 427ish pounds there about and I compete at the 165

1:50.8

pound class so so I'm relatively small guy bench press in competition my best bench

1:57.9

bench was 319 and then in competition deadlift was 518 I have done a bench press 330 in the gym and

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