Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Andrea I think you're saying too many nice things about me! I'm not that superb Talking to you cleared up my mind a lot. Thanks!! It was a great afternoon/evening. I'm really loooking forward to our hardcore day tomorrow, I know we'll still have much more fun. We'll use all that nice stuff we ate today. And tomorrow there should be no cake or pie I think, even though they were hmmmmmm so yummy!

EDIT: Aww you! I hadn't seen that!

Saturday I went on a 3.5 hour bike ride.
Sunday I rode my bike for 1 hour, then indoor rock climbed for 3hours, then walked some around town.
Eating a lot of falafel sandwiches, chickpea salad, and tabouleh cause a new falafel place opened up and everything is a dollar this week. So yummy!!

Today I worked on the muscles that weren't sore from the weekend.
Seated Leg Curl
1 x 12 x 50lbs
1 x 10 x 60lbs
1 x 10 x 65lbs (start at 60 next time)

Gravitron Wide Grip (delts still sore)
1 x 8 x 70lbs
1 x 6 x 70lbs
1 x 10 x 75lbs

Deadlifts
25lbs in each hand
1 x 12
1 x 15
1 x 10

Standing calf raises
2 x 12 x 60lbs
1 x 10 x 65lbs

Tricep Rope Pulldown
1 x 12 x 15lbs
1 x 10 x 20lbs
1 x 7 x 20lbs, 1 x 5 x 15lbs

DB curls (not rested enough)
1 x 12 x 12lbs
2 x 8 x 12lbs

Roman Chair
no weight 13, 10, 8

Seated Calf
1 x 10 x 50lbs
1 x 12 x 45lbs
1 x 10 x 45lbs

Tricep Overhead Extension
1 x 10 x 12lbs
1 x 5 x 15lbs, 1 x 5 x 12lbx (twice)

I forgot to write yesterday that I almost did a single pull up. I did a slow jump (not a quick one like I used to need to do) and held it, came down super slow (halfway) and up again.

Cardio was 20minutes elliptical and 30minutes on bike around town.

Eating was a kale blueberry smoothie, a falafel sandwich, and a clif builder bar so far

there is nothing like riding a bike around town.

Today we rock climbed indoor cause it rained all day. We climbed for 3 hours, went really well. Then a friend and I biked to Burlington from Toronto 110km round trip, had a couple nice picnics along the way, it rained on and off but it was refreshing. First long ride this year, i gotta do more so I don't lose the momentum.

Just had a protein shake with that artichoke protein powder, don't remember the name. A couple energy bars on the ride and strawberry strip things, and earlier leftover pasta, curry and tofu from fresh.

Cardio: 45km bike ride, lots of hills, not so fit anymore cause they hurt.
Diet: wasn't great, lots of pasta and watermelon

Yesterday: rest day

Wednesday: 6 hours surveying, something like yoga or pilates at some points but no cardio

haven't forgotten about ya. really crazy week. I'm going to sit down and attend to emails and online clients tomorrow. Maybe if we add some scheduled foods in, I can get you away from the pasta

Today a friend woke me up at 5:50am and I biked her to work. I alway forget how productive I am for the entire day when I work out first thing in the morning. I even mopped today and I rarely mop. It was a 25km round trip lots of hill. Now I'm dog training my monster. There is a bar installed in the hallway to do pullups and hang from in the house! So fun, I've set my goals. Currently I can not pull myself up without a little jump and can do a couple half pullups from the top. My goals is to do two complete pullups without the jump start by Sept 15. Nice to have it in the house, I look forward to training on it. Also hanging from it now at 60sec.

Eating: very clean today so far! I've set my alarm clock to go every three hours so I don't forget to eat or so I won't overeat.

I'm back from a long vacation. I have many a goals for myself this year. This coming March I'm going on a major expedition and need to train. Love having something to work towards, it'll make weight training so much easier. My goals revolve around becoming extremely fit in all areas so i can keep up with the others, be a strong and reliable team member, and not kill myself.
I started training my newly adopted doberman/german shepherd to run with me, she's still very aggressive towards anything/anyone else but me and the family. She needs to be seen by a behaviourist cause she's fricken psycho. Poor thing I wonder what her previous life was like before she arrived at the shelter.

Some goals:
Bike and Run more with hills to develop more leg strength and endurance
Stair climb with 50lb pack (buildings or stepmaster)
be able to do 2 pull ups and 5 chin ups
Up my weights significantly to build strength and power
weight train in endurance too, lift lighter but much longer
Rock climb/kayak for fun ways to build upper body strength
Other technical stuff specific to the expedition...so fun!!!!
Improve spanish

It'll be a busy busy year! but soo awesome.

Workout for today was just a short stressful run with my dog in the rain. I ate a couple berry protein shakes, some granola, two gala apples, a veggie tofu coconut curry and had a soy latte with 3 espresso shots (which keeps me awake for exactly 9 hours, 3 more hours to go then it should wear of and then just maybe sleep will finally happen.)

Welcome back!

I smiled when I saw your name logged in today. Glad to see you back around here

I got up went straight to the gym without thinking so I had no time to talk myself out of it. Forgot to bring my workout plan though. I hit biceps, delts and triceps.

Gravitron
85lbs 20 reps Chinups
85lbs 20 reps Pullups
70lbs 12, 10 reps Chinups
70lbs 10, 6 reps Pullups

Bicep DB Curls
15lbs 10 x 2
10lbs 10 reps

DB Front Raises
10lbs 13 reps
12lbs 10 reps
15lbs 5 reps
12lbs 10 reps

Bent Arm Side Raise
10lbs 12, 10 reps
8lbs 8 reps (L arm tired!)

Reverse Flies
8lbs 12 x 2 reps
5lbs 15 reps

Shoulder Press Machine
10lbs 8 x 3 reps

Triceps DB overhead
10lbs 12 reps
12lbs 10, 8 reps

Triceps Cable Pulldown
20lbs 5 reps
12.5lbs 12 x 2 reps
I still hate doing triceps. I'll work on them more 'til I love em.

Abs
Crunches 30x3
Bicycle 30x3
Don't know the name, butt lifts 20x3

35 minute easy elliptical

Eating is not good today, one clif builder and one iced venti soy toffenut latte so far.
I'm setting a short term goal: by Sept 26th lose 3lbs and gain back lost muscle in quads and delts. Improve hams and triceps. Eat well each day. Take the xtend every workout. Cut out sugar. Plan menus ahead of time and cook meals to take on the go...

Thanks for that Robert!

Welcome back Anrdea

THANKS PAZIOS!!!

So today I didn't follow my diet but I didn't go crazy on the junk...that's kind of acceptable. Actually I did go overboard on the carbs I noticed now that I'm writing it out.

Morning: Rice/Millet cereal with Ginger Zing granola, Grape nuts, bits of pear and craisins thrown in, in no sugar Almond Milk
Snack: did I have one? don't remember I had a camomile tea
Lunch: Burritos; black beans, salsa, corn, cucumber, red pepper, avocado, cumin, in a whole wheat wrap.
Snack: Whole wheat wrap and peanut butter and jelly
Dinner: Protein bar and a few nuts
Snack: apple and whole wheat wrap and peanut butter and jelly

Tomorrow I'll stick to my diet plan better.