Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Impressive. What do you weigh now?

I couldn't have worded this better! Pictures of you and robert and other guys on this site are what motivated me to start lifting weights and getting my health sorted out. It's changed my life forever! Keep up the good work man you look great.

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My training log

looking sweet in the last shot.

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Thanks Chewy.

Thanks Mary.

This morning i went to the fitness center and ran a 10min mile.

Hours later...

I went to the gym and did the precor for 8min(warmup)

then proceeded to do some back. I had a pretty decent swell.... I was focussing more on the lift rather than the weight and doing more sets of the same weight. Thinking I was going to come right home and workout again.. I cut it short at the gym. I think I might have been there over an hour anyway.

Came home and saw some homemade dill hummus waiting on me so I was like "hell, Im gonna make some dolmades(grape leaf wraps)." I did make about 30-40 or so with red quinoa and some spices(including curry). Went well, they taste awesome. After about 8 pita pieces, about 5 dolmades, and some hummus I figured it was time to hit the fitness center again.

Started off doing the:

Precore(elliptical) for 20min
50 leg Xtns @50lbs
50 pushups
50 situps
50 latpulldowns @50lbs

Treadmill 3.5mph/3%inc for 20min
50 leg Xtns @50lbs
50 pushups
50 situps
50 latpulldowns @50lbs

Stationary Bike for 20min
50 leg Xtns @50lbs
50 pushups
50 situps
50 latpulldowns @70lbs

All while watching Life on Discovery Channel. Luckily this made time go by really fast! I hit everything in an hour and a half.

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you're a machine. well done, sir.

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"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll

I did diff things today.

Shrugs, tri pushdowns, a lil bicep, a lil chest.

Just kinda bounced around to different things after a few sets of each.

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you don't have any "lil" biceps!! They're both FREAKIN' HUGE!

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"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll

@jx28- im anywhere between 179-183. Weight fluctuates depending on sodium and water intake.

@Jason- man my arms are anything but huge and please dont argue with me!! I know better.

The past couple days Ive been flakey in the gym.
No real motivation or want to be there.

Tues I did some delts and about 30min cardio.

Yest I was supposed to workout with someone and they flaked on me two hours before gym time. I was pissed. Went to gym too late(around 7:30) and did... hell I cannot even remember what I did. It was that bad. I did teach bootcamp and that gave me some extra cardio plus I ran outside with a client(1mile). so eh....

Today I went to gym and did some bi/tri supersets.

Started off doing 1handed tri xtns followed by single db curls with same weight.
I went from using 15lbs and doing sets of 30 to 40lbs and doing sets of 10-15.

Then I hit the cable tri pressdowns with cable curls.

tricep kickbacks/"preacher" style bicep curls(went up to 45's).

I also did Behind head BB xtns with BB curls.


Tonight Im supposed to meet up with said person again and hit chest. Hopefully ill get swol again. Arms got a good swell today. Been starving all day. Finished off cherry jubilee Spirutein and have been craving more. Hopefully it will get me through the workout tonight.

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man I had a pretty good chest workout tonight!

Tired as all hell right now.

Cooking quinoa in a broccoli broth.

1.5 hours of nothin but chest and 15min cardio after(thought I was gonna fall off machine)

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didn't mean to offend. Keep rippin, octo, you're almost there!

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"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." - Brian O'Driscoll

I'm outta cherries jubilee too and kinda wanna cry. the store here changed owners and they haven't received a shipment so I'm doing without - not raw neways, sigh... Proud of you. Keep going with the cardio - relayed that to our email fan dude lol... And thank for today soRry I was a bitch we all know I don't diet well. Fml well back to trying to sleep.. Oh btw Kody said ure a beast and way to go abbilicious... I think my husbands a lil gauy for ur abs haha. Well okay bedtime.. And btw ne1 that reads this I'm bi so not being rude about the gay thing just stating a fact! Kk ttyt

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The reason is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk?, but Can they suffer? - Jeremy Bentham 1748 - 1832

Im still around. Workouts have been iffy lately. Diet has been off on some days. Im just not feeling the inspiration anymore. Im tired of "having" to workout and eat strict and cardio after. My energy levels arent there. Nobody to look up to thats doing vegan natural bodybuilding. I cant wait, only 19 days to go and 5 minutes in the a.m. and 2 min in the pm.

I will take a break from just lifting after this show. Not long.... just enough to recoup. I actually only want to workout 3days a week(m,w,f) and then run twice a week(Tu,Thr).

Ive been hearing "oh you only have a few weeks less why give up now..." but its by people who have never put their body through this kind of "torture."

Ive been eating clean since Dec. 1st and and so sick of it right now. I will post pics later...maybe. I took some today and they didnt really come out well in the sun so I did them in a shadier place and they looked a little better. I def dont even care what I place now. I was shooting for 2nd place this year but now Im just looking to get it over with. Thanks to everyone who have kept up with this journal.

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

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Happiness is a personal choice!
I am the sole source of all my sadness and joy.

"The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy: the strange error that our perfection
depends on the thoughts and
opinions and applause of other men."
Source: Thomas Merton

i think your doing to do really well Octo! all your photos looks fantastic!

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Taken a couple days ago:


Taken today, unswol, in the potty room:


Also, today:

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