Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Wow been 3 months since I updated this.

Since then:
-Got into chiropractic schools in LA and Dallas. Choosing LA.
-Ran a 3-hour race with Robert a week ago. He won and set the course record, I took 9th with a distance of 17.98 miles.
-Got 26 one-arm pushups the other day. These are easily my favorite exercise right now. I do them every day for fun.

Now, training for a marathon on 2/18/13. This past Sunday I ran 17.60 miles in 3:10:00. Day before that I worked out at Bonebreaker with Mike and Bart. Plan is to bump my long runs up by 10-15 minutes a week. Expecting to do my marathon in about 4:15 or so.

Also working on cleaning up the diet. Been eating too many black beans and corn tortillas lately! They don't sit with me well and bring down my emotional energy. I got a new Omega VRT 350HD juicer for Hanukah so I've been trying to drink a green juice or a citrus juice every day. I'm not going to be militant about trying to eat 100% raw, just going to try to eat a shit-ton of fruit and greens. I'm feeling really, really good today and if that continues it should make keeping the diet on track that much easier.

Workout at Beyond Fit yesterday with Chad and Tricia

Rope jumping jacks
Plank pushups
Rows
Sandbag Burbeeps
Mountain Climbers
Tire push/pulls

Fun times! Giant bowl of zuchinni pasta aftewards. Vacation. Life is good.

Another Beyond Fit workout on 1/1/13:

One-arm mountain climbers
Sandbag squats
Box jumps
Rope Jacks
Pushups
Sandbag Lift and slam
Sandbag partner toss


Food yesterday:
32 oz OJ
8 persimmons
1 kombucha
1 3oz bag raw seed snack chips (raw junk)
7 banana + peach / spinach smoothie
64 oz OJ

Food today:
32 oz grapefruit juice
64 oz OJ
64 oz smoothie banana/peach/spinach
Planned dinner: 64 oz smoothie banana/peach/spinach again, 4-8 persimmons

Exercise today:
3 x 12 one-arm pushups
2 sun salutations
4-mile run
5 pull ups
6 two-arm pushups

Wow, so looks like last year at New Year's I tried reviving this blog once again and it didn't work.

Update:
I moved from Austin to Southern California last year. I'm now a student at Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. My school has a gym that's free for students that I have been lifting at RELIGIOUSLY since September. Suffice to say I've made some serious GAINZ. In the past few weeks I've shattered bench and deadlift records for myself. I feel like at age 32 I'm the strongest, fittest and healthiest I've ever been in my life. I'm cut as fuck and just loving the health and fitness lifestyle.

Most recent workouts this week:

MONDAY 1/6
Deadlifts: 135 x 10, 185 x 10, 225 x 8, 275 x 3, 275 x 2, attempted 315 but couldn't lock out
Lat pull 3x10x110
DB Rows: 3x10x50

TUESDAY 1/7
Bench: 135 x 5, 135 x 5, 135 x 5, 145 x 3, 155 x 3 (needed a spot for this last one)
Dips: 8,8,9,8
Incline Bench: 4x8x95
Incline DB chest press: 3x5x35

After sucking at bench for basically my whole life I finally got some instruction this winter from Big Bald Mike who really helped me up my game. 135 used to be something I wouldn't even attempt without a spot. Now it's child's play, I can warm up with it. He really taught me how to actually engage my pectoralis muscles which has made a HUGE difference. Here's a video of him and I from last week when I deadlifted double my body weight on the trap bar:

WED 1/8/14
Squats: 8x135, 8x145,8x155,8x165
Legpress: 3x10x290+sled
Lunges: 2x30x50 (holding 25lb plates)

MON 1/13/14
DEADLIFT: 5x135, 5x185, 5x225, 2x4x275, 2x1x315
DB ROWS: 4x10x50
LAT PULL: 3x9x110

TUES 1/14/14
BENCH: 4x5x135, 1x4x135, 2x5x135
DIPS: 10,7,10,10
DB FLY/PRESS: 4x8x335

THU 1/16
SQUATS: 8x135, 6x145, 4x165, 3x3x175
LEGPRESS: 5x10x340+sled
Speed lunge pumps at 1/4 ROM: 10, 10

SAT 1/17
One-arm pushups: 51
Pullups: 10x3
"Jumping" Muscle ups: 5x4

Wow, haven't done pullups in a while and I usually try to do sets of 6-7 reps. Going the distance with 10 sets of 3 totally wore out my lats. Haven't been this sore there in a long time. In fact it's Monday afternoon and I'm still sore after doing them 48 hours ago!