Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Howdy folks. Thanks again for all the great advice & training tips. Below, I'll post my first food & workout log, hopefully putting it online will help me figure out how to make it more effective & keep me at it.
Right now everything is on machines, the gym is new & they haven't gotten free weights yet... Also, the last sets are approximate, but pretty close, I'll add an extra rep or up to muscle exhaustion.

3/23/09

FOOD:
Breakfast - Bowl Cereal + Soy milk + Coffee + Multi vitamin
mid morning - Soy latte
Lunch - Bowl Tomato, white bean & brown rice soup + 5-10 tortilla chips
Post Workout - Soy protein shake (made w/h2o) w/ a few berries & a couple vegan choc chips tossed in
Dinner - (Chili-Chocolate) Mole Skillet Pie w/ Greens
Bedtime - Soy protien (made w/h2o)


WORKOUT:
Cardio -
Warm up - 5 min. + Run - 10 min. + Cool down - 5 min.

Leg Press-
200 lbs x 12, 205 lbs X 10, 210 lbs x 210

Ab Machine-
75 lbs x 30, 70 lbs x 30

Flys-
80 lbs x 12, 85 lbs x 10, 90 lbs x 9

Calf raise-
200 lbs x 20, 200 x 15, 200 x 10

Torso rotation-
70 x 12 (L), 70 x 12 (R), 70 x 12 (L), 70 X 12 (R)

Pull Downs
100 lbs x 12, 105 x 10, 110 x 8

well... i've been lame about keeping track of this stuff, haven't I?

a couple of updates, though:

for good news, my new gym finally got free weights & i've been hard at it... starting to show a little progress, I think. i'm eating much more food & drinking TONS of water compared to the period before I started training & feeling good overall.

the bad news is, I don't know what half the machines/exercises/techniques are, so I don't really know what some of the things I'm doing are called. plus i'm not really keeping track of weight/reps, but I can tell i'm gaining a little muscle. that's good, right?

Ok... I've been bad about keeping track, but good about hitting the gym.

In another post I asked about how much cardio was too much, but here's what happened today.

Today I hit the gym & ran for about 30 min on the treadmill set to random incline changes. Ended up going about 5k.
After that I did a brief leg routine which consisted of lunges (w/dumbbells), some declined sit-ups(?) w/ a 25lb plate, then finished up with calf raises.
Around 6 p.m., I hiked about 4 miles with my gf & the dogs (not a daily thing - usually happens about twice a week).

It's now 10:14 p.m, and my calorie count is somewhere around 2,910... The treadmill said I burned about 350-ish calories during the run, & I have no idea how many I burned doing my legs/core & then later during the hike.

Food log for yesterday: (all calories are approximate...)
8 a.m. 410 cal. breakfast - Shake w/ soy protein, banana, berries & soy milk
10:45 200 cal. small serving pasta salad w/chickpeas & veggies
noon 650 cal. lunch - More pasta salad w/chickpeas & veg, plus 2 Tbsp peanut butter
3:30 410 post workout shake, same as breakfast
9:40pm 1,000 dinner - rice & edamame bowl w/kalamata olives & dried cranberries
11 pm 210
other random snacks:
1/3 cup dried cranberries 140 cal.
kalamata olives - 120 cal.

Total: 3,140

How are things going?

Just wanted to say hi....great to see a food log! I need to start another one too...maybe this is the motivation I need!

All the best!

_________________

Check out my Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness Book on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Bodybuildin ... 497&sr=1-1