Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

i love the chance to start a blog in your lovely forum!

i wanna blog my sports and the changes i will do.

some facts on me:

28 years old, yoga teacher, vegetarian since sept. 2004, 62 - 63 kg, fat 19 - 20 %, married. me and my husband are eating nearly all organic.

i am doing bodybuilding with a real plan only for 1 week (in studio, 3 split). before, i trained most at home, but never liked the hard training so really. that had changed

if you are interested in my plan, i can post it, but surely need some help for the english names of the exercises.

today i went to the garden by mountainbike, which means ca. 2 km straight uphill. there, i ate some wild greens, tomatoes and berries.

later, in studio, i made a warmup (11 minutes running and sun salutations). then hard training (tuesday is back day - i love it) for 45 minutes.

meals: too much, not everything raw, too much sugar and not really vegan

from tomorrow i wanna go raw, except lapacho, tulsi and green tea (i love them). i got lots of foods at home for that (maca, spirulina, fruits and veges, wheat grass, wheat germs, many several seeds and nuts) and enough knowledge about it i think (i wanna eat raw for more than one year and really occupied with everything about that).

tomorrow, i will train together with a friend who also works in the studio i train (and work as a yoga teacher). tomorrow's squat day!

we also will do some stretching, i love it

i already did my yoga morning program for today
that means 30 minutes pranayama (kapalabhati and anuloma viloma), uddhiyana bandha, agni sara, nauli, "gorilla", 5 tibetians, 12 sun salutations and asanas.

before, i sat for some minutes on the sidesplit machine, up to 150°.

Hey brahmanya devi!
Good to see you already started a blog!
Where did you do your yoga-education?
Can you make a living out of being a yoga-teacher (no need to answer this one as it is personal)?
Do you live in a bigger city in Thüringin?
I know: many questions...
All the best for your training!
Btw: Do you want to go vegan?

hi flanders

i got my yoga teacher education at yoga vidya, bad meinberg (NRW).
i don't know how you mean the question with the living out of being a yoga teacher...?

yes, i'm living in a city, but it's ok. we got a garden some minutes from here that is very nice.

i wanna try to go vegan, but first i want to change to raw eating (included raw cow milk because of proteine). that's already difficult enough. if it will work for some time, i think i can change to vegan.

I was at the yoga vidya center and my former yoga teacher learned there as well!
I meant if you earn enough to live from it...
I am high raw (90%) and believe me: there is no need to worry about protein no matter if you are raw or/and vegan!
If you want to talk to me about it personally: here is my cellphone- number:
0163/6663602

thx flanders


training yesterday:

35 minutes jogging on machine (20 before, 15 after)
sun salutations

squats 3 x 35
deadlifts 3 x 15 (30 kg barbell)
lunges with dumbbells 3 x 10 (2 x 7 kg)
incline leg press with one leg 3 x 6
push ups 3 x 15
pullovers 3 x 12 (12 kg dumbbell)
butterflies at machine 3 x 10 (20 kg)
l-sit 3 x 10
plank

stretching and gymnastics (frontsplits, bridges, handstand etc.)
(better backbending with more raw food!)

training yesterday:

12 minutes jogging on machine

Barbell Bent Over Row 1 x 10 (30 kg)
Upright Row (Multipress) 3 x 10 (20 kg)
Shoulder Press with dumbbells 3 x 10 (7 kg)
lunge walking 3 x 20
squats reverse hanging 3 x 7
lateral dumbell raise 3 x 10 (5 kg)
hanging leg raise 2 x 10

after that, some stretching (frontsplits, bridges)

then i had enough time to do my "morning" yoga program with pranayama etc. before i started the yoga class for 90 minutes hatha yoga asanas, which was very nice, too.

friday and saturday did nothing, except watching dvds

today me and my husband went with our mountainbikes on our common tour for ~ 74 km.

distance: 73,7 km
max. speed: 63,0 km/h
average speed: 23,8 km/h
total time: 3:09:18 h
altitude difference: 827 m

while little breaks, i ate 2 bananas, 2 apples and 1 carobe. no malto for me today in my drink. that was a very good idea, everything went well.

training today:

30 minutes gymnastics/stretching/warm up

walking lunges 25, 20, 20
calf lifting (30 kg) 3 x 12
lat pulldown to chest 12 x 35 kg, 10 x 40 kg, 8 x 45 kg, 6 x 50 kg
pulley (row machine) 12 x 40 kg, 10 x 45 kg, 8 x 50 kg
squats reverse hanging 7, 7, 6 (waaaa, hate them!)
hyperextensions 3 x 12 slowly
front raise with 2 dumbbells at 5 kg 3 x 10
lateral dumbell raise on incline bench 3 x 10 (3 kg)
bicep curls (dumbbell) 3 x 10 (9 kg)
l-sit 3 x 10

after that, i tried bench press with a 30 kg barbell for the first time with someone who helped me. i liked it! i never will do any push ups (hate them).

training is great. i'm building up!

These are some impressing numbers! I wish I had the time (and motivation) to train so much! I am working on getting motivated again!

flanders

training today:

30 min. warm up, stretching, gymnastics. lovely floating bridges today

squats 3 x 35
deadlifts 3 x 15 (30 kg)
bench press 3 x 12 (30 kg)
pull overs 3 x 15 (12 kg)
butterflies 8 x 25 kg, 10 x 20 kg, 10 x 20 kg
l-sit 1 x 10
planks 3 x je 1 Min.

yesterday:

10 min. running on machine
hatha yoga sun salutations

upright row with barbell (multipress) 3 x 10 (20 kg)
barbell bent over row 1 x 10 (30 kg)
front squats 2 x 10 (12,5 kg)
lateral dumbbell raise 1 x 10 (5 kg)
shoulder press with dumbbells 3 x 12 (7 kg)
walking lunges 1 x 20

(i think i need to change day 1 and 3 of the 3-split. yesterday was not optimum)

90 min. yoga lesson

today:

50 minutes gymnastics/stretching
sun salutations

today i went for running.

10,7 + 1 km
1:03:27 h
average speed 10,2 km/h
altitude difference: 182

it felt good and the speed was ok, not too slow.

tomorrow we will go for 74 km with the mountain-bike

mountain-biking today:

total distance 74,6 km
3:13:50 h
max. speed 63,4 km/h
average speed 23,1 km/h
altitude difference: 845 m

during the last break, i stretched the hole body.