Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

05/14/2010

1 hour of Hot Yoga

05/15/2010

1 hour of Wing Chun. All Chi Sau

hot yoga is the shit!

what is this wing chun business you do? chinese buffet? does that help with the bulking process?

Southern Chinese Kung Fu.

Invented by Wing Chun herself.

Perfected by Yip Man.

Made famous by Bruce Lee.

Further made famous by Donnie Yen and Robert Downey Jr.



but speaking of bulking...eating so much gets old quick! I can only keep it up for like a week or two at a time. So I keep gaining and losing the same 6 pounds. It's harder than the lifting!

you're right. it totally is! I know the feeling. eat yourself sick, then lift yourself exhausted. it's a perfect system!

you just gotta eat like a champ and put it down. (or, DON'T put it down, if you mean the fork)

nice work with the hot yoga rob!

05/20/2010

Came in to work today, and with no prior notice, we were told we'd be doing the PAT. So I'm logging it in as progress. Knocked 15 seconds off my time. Did it in October in 4 minutes 4 seconds. Today I did it in 3 minutes and 49 seconds.

Congrats! Looks like those injuries you had didn't keep you from improving your fitness over last October.

Thanks. As much as I'd like to be optimistic and agree with you, I can't underestimate the effect of course-familiarity. The last time I did this particular course was the first time. This time I knew where to go and what to do for each task. I think that played a large part.

you still had to get the work done so you should feel good about it!

I echo Mary.

05/26/2010
Wow...had to do some SERIOUS de-loading today. I guess that's what happens when you don't lift for 2 weeks and stop eating as much as you should be.

Bench Press:
Warm up 135 x 5
170 x 3
165 x 1
155 x 3 x 4
135 x 6

Overhead Press:
85 x 5 x 5

Dips:
3 sets of 5

Dumbbell Flies:
30s x 10 x 3

Eliptical - as hard and fast as I could go for 5:17 (the max time of the PAT)

Shameful.

1 hour of Wing Chun

05/27/2010

Workout:
Squat:
Warm up 45 lbs x 5
95 lbs x 5 x 5
- Right knee pain returned during last set. Curious as to what's causing it.

Hypers:
10 lbs x 10 x 3

Assisted Pull-ups:
60 lbs assistance x 5 x 5

Hanging Leg Lift:
10 x 3

Cable Rows:
60 lbs x 10 x 3

Hammer Curls:
40s x 10 x 5
- Too much pain in right wrist to do regular dumbbell curls or use a barbell

Food:
I guess I'll start this again, since I'm clearly not eating enough anymore.
5 bananas
2 cups of peach soy yogurt
Almost half of a 1 lb bag of TJ's Go Raw Trail Mix (raisins, cashews, walnuts, almonds, filberts)
Tj's Dynamo juice
cup of Yerba Mate
small bowl of leftover cooked spinach, mushrooms and garlic (wasn't much left)
spinach salad with mushrooms, tomato, olive oil, pomegranate balsamic vinegar, and dried basil
small bowl of leftover cole slaw
6 slices of faux turkey lunch "meat" rolled up with tofutti sour cream
4 fried cucumber wonton rolls w/ bragg liquid aminos
4 fried thai vegetable gyoza dumplings w/ bragg liquid aminos
some waffle fries w/ ketchup
a personal size Amy's vegan pizza

Way to get back to lifting and eating!

06/01/2010

1 hour of hot yoga

2 bananas
nearly a gallon of TJ's Pomegranate Green Tea
Around a 1/3 pound of TJ's "Simply the best Trek Mix": cashews, almonds, pineapple, cranberries & tart cherries
smoothie: 2 bananas, 1/3 cup Ultimate Meal powder, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, veg omega oil
5 thai vegetable gyoza dumplings w/ bragg liquid aminos
1 PB Cliffs bar
bowl of blueberries
TVP meatballs w/ roasted tomatoes, whole wheat linguini, sauteed mushrooms & fresh basil