Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

11/01/12:

Workout:

No formal gym time, but I walked for close to 3 miles. Best part - my foot didn't hurt at all! I'm still in my orthopedic shoes, I'm nervous to go walking very far from home without them.

Diet:

pineapple
"beef" and veggie stew
1 apple, 1 banana
salad with romaine, green beans, carrot, tomato, and nutritional yeast
1 apple
chickpea and cauliflower curry, brown rice

I'm always inspired by how you include fruit in your diet.

I would also like to see a picture of your new shoes.

I love fruit! I have a serious sweet tooth and fruit keeps me from reaching for other sugary things. I've tried lower carb diets and they just never work for me because I miss fruit too much.

These are the shoes I ended up getting. My surgeon was adamant that they had to be Dansko, and luckily they have a very different vegan options:
http://www.zappos.com/dansko-veda-black-canvas

I'd like to get these ones eventually but I need to get a job first:
http://www.zappos.com/dansko-volley-coated-canvas-black-coated-canvas

12/01/12:

Didn't get a workout in today. I had an interview at a company that was so draining - I talked to 7 people! I basically had to talk and be on my game for four hours straight so I am drained. I just want to curl up in bed with a book.

Diet:
oats with applesauce, banana, and soy milk
cauliflower and chickpea curry
sushi tacos (tofu, brown rice, lettuce, and carrot wrapped up in a nori 'taco shell')
1 glass blueberry juice
a couple of oranges

wow, i hope they bought you lunch. that sounds like an expense account kind of job. good luck! how do you think it went?

i love your shoes. i love your shoes-to-be too. orthopedic shoes are hawt

Ha, no expense account. The whole job situation is so frustrating right now, made complicated by work visas and the like. Some big decisions to be made in the next two weeks, I'm just waiting to hear back from a couple of interviews. The ones yesterday went alright, I have a follow up phone interview this afternoon so I'm taking that as a good sign.

13/01/12:

Workout - Vertical Push/Pull & Abs
Lat Pulldown:
5 x 45
5 x 45
5 x 45
5 x 45
5 x 45

DB Pullover:
8 x 25
8 x 25
8 x 30

One-Arm DB Push Press:
5 x 25
5 x 25
5 x 30
5 x 30
5 x 30

DB Lateral Raises:
8 x 10
8 x 10
8 x 10

HIIT on stationary bike:
3 min warm up
10 intervals (30 sec on/60 sec off)
3 min cool down

Weighted Crunches:
12 x 20
12 x 20
12 x 20

Stretching

Diet:
oats with apple, protein powder with soy milk
banana
HUUUGE salad (romaine, kale, tomato, carrot, brussel sprouts, tofu, cashews, nutritional yeast, brown rice, and flax)
a few baby carrots
pumpkin soup, red lentils, broccoli
orange

14/01/12:

Workout - Hamstring Dominant/Quad Accessory & Triceps:
DB RDLs:
40 x 5
40 x 5
40 x 5
40 x 5
40 x 5

Wow my grip sucks!

Reverse Lunges (kept these at bodyweight since they are pretty tough on my foot right now):
BW x 8
BW x 8
BW x 8

Goblet Squats:
30 x 12
30 x 12
30 x 12

DB Skullcrushers:
10 x 8
10 x 8
10 x 6

Stretching

It was a beautiful afternoon so for cardio I went for a 3 mile walk. Foot was just getting sore toward the end, toward that it was just fine.

Diet:

Ha. Got a little tipsy during the 49ers game which resulted in some poor food choices...went out for a sushi dinner and I had an avocado roll and veggie gyoza, but then I came home and ate way too much chocolate cake. Oops.

yay niners! and yay chocolate cake. now i want some.

it was a good game! Usually I'm an Oakland fan, but since they're not in the play-offs it's fun to cheer a winning team for once.

15/01/12:

rest day

16/01/12:

Workout - Horizontal Push/Pull

DB row:
30 x 5
35 x 5
40 x 5
40 x 5
40 x 5

upright DB row:
15 x 8
15 x 8
15 x 8

DB bench:
25 x 5
25 x 5
25 x 5
25 x 5
25 x 5

incline DB bench:
20 x 8
20 x 8
20 x 8

standing DB calf raise:
30 x 8
30 x 8
30 x 8

weighted DB crunch:
20 x 12
20 x 12
20 x 12

stretching

later on went for a 3 mile walk

Diet:
banana, protein powder + soy milk
giant salad with mixed greens, carrot, tofu, brussel sprouts, onion, cauliflower, turnip, nutritional yeast, and flax
2 mandarins
mung bean curry, brown rice
salad greens
1 glass red wine
2 mandarins

how was the three mile walk this time? any pain?

None at all! I went with my husband and I always tell him to say something if I'm limping, because I can't always tell. He says I'm walking normally but when I try to increase my pace to speed walking I start to walk funny. Once I slow down to my normal pace (which is probably somewhere around an 18:00/mile) then I'm walking fine. So for now that's where I'm staying.

I'm hoping all of this walking helps me make a comeback to running at the end of January, so only a couple of weeks away!

17/01/12:

Workout:

Was supposed to do a lower body workout, but I still had some DOMS from Saturday so I didn't go. Went for a 2.5 mile walk. I was going to do some yoga, but laundry and vacuuming got in the way.

Diet:
mung bean curry
mandarin
salad with mixed greens, carrot, tofu, nutritional yeast, and flax
apple
mandarin
2 bananas with soy milk, coconut, and cacao nibs
lentil-rice veggie soup, bread
1 glass red wine

folding laundry is vinyassa.

Ha, I like the way you think.

18/01/12:

Workout - Quad dominant/hamstring accessory & biceps

DB split squats (still some balance issues, but these are coming along):
20 x 5
25 x 5
30 x 5
30 x 5

Surgery tendon started to get sore so I didn't do my 5th set.

DB step ups:
20 x 8
20 x 8
20 x 8

Seated hamstring curls:
45 x 12
45 x 12
45 x 12

Hammer curls:
20 x 8
20 x 8
20 x 8

Stretched out my hamstrings.

Today is going to be one of our last sunny days for awhile so I went for a 3 mile walk.

Diet:
smoothie (banana, mixed fruit, soy milk, flax, protein powder)
banana
salad (mixed greens, kale, onion, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, tofu)
orange
celery
TVP meatloaf, broccoli, brown rice

my pt kept telling me how important consistency is. he would be proud of you.