Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

I see on your site that when you first did P90X, you were not terribly vegan. I would like to pose a suggestion. This time, try to focus less on the protein 'requirement' of the program. You can get plenty of protein on a vegan diet, but if I remember correctly, P90X wants something like 30-40% of your calories from protein, which is quite high. Higher protein diets can help with satiety, but for repairing your body, nothing will help as much as high antioxidant foods like fruits and veggies. So I would focus more on high protein vegan foods, but whole foods, and without neglecting veggie intake! As far as proteins go, I recommend nuts, seeds, tofu, tempeh, beans, quinoa, peas, and cooked veggies. You can add some fake meats and protein powders when you feel like you really need them, but try to stick to as many whole foods as you can, and worry less about your macros. 20% protein should be plenty, but if you really want to hit 30%, then that should be possible as well. BlueRose has a workout journal on here, and I believe she has done quite a bit of P90X, so maybe check out her threads.

Good luck!

P90X2 actually comes with a FAR better nutrition plan, including a section just for vegans. They'll also have a vegan version of Shakeology sometime next month or so.

I personally just did my own thing. I find that protein intake varies depending upon how much you're working out, how hard you're working out, and your body weight and if you're trying to lose, your desired body weight.

What you're eating looks pretty healthy! My tip: if you get hungry, eat more veggies. Are you looking to lose, maintain, build muscle, all of the above...?

Believe it or not I've heard people get the best results with the classic version of the schedule for that. Key of course (and I'll know you'll hear it a lot) is mostly diet along with being consistent with the schedule.

I'm currently doing a P90X/P90X+ right now, spent a few weeks being sick and am now getting back on track.

They are tougher than the P90X ones but somewhat shorter in length. I confess to liking them being just a liiittle bit shorter, lol. I'll be alternating between it and the classic month 2. I just need an extra boost, if nothing else.

What type of injuries do you have, if you don't mind my asking?

WOW. That's quite the list! I was never athletic growing up, and the injuries I got were from being hunched over the computer for hours on end for at least two decades. :-/ Yoga and a lot of core work has helped me with those, but my shoulder blades are still a bit tweaky. They're fine if I'm active, not so fine if I go inactive.

Have you tried using pushup stands?

+1 for pushup stands

Never used them but it's only pretty recently that I've been able to do toe pushups. I may eventually have to spring for them.

P90X2 has the same structured nutrition plan as P90X? Or what I mean to say is, can I use the P90X2 nutrition plan while doing P90X?

I don't see why not! Go for it.

Getting my p90x back from being loaned to a friend and cant freaking wait to get back on it. Does anyone have the p90x2? Any better or same stuff just modified?

Basically just a bit more intense than the first one. The workouts stress the cardio work a bit more, but are slightly shorter. BlueRose should know quite a bit....

Happy to say that I just got P90X Certified! I wound up learning quite a bit about the meal plan and how to take a vegan approach is frankly easy if you know how it works. P90X2 guides break it down and make it a bit more explainable, but it's the same meal plan structure, essentially.

You have a choice of three different plans: Fat Shredder, Energy Booster, and Endurance Maximizer. Their names are slightly different in P90X2 but their intent and macros are still the same.

So if anyone's doing P90X and needs help with this...holler.

As far as the differences between P90X and P90X2, I JUST started P90X2 this week so it's hard to give a full review up front. I can tell you that they're pretty different, and P90X2 is definitely challenging so far. I'm in the "Foundation" phase so I'll report back as it goes on.

Just watching the commercials for P90X2 scares me. Pushups. On. BALLS. On the other hand, a whole fresh set of Tony's bad jokes is tempting...

Ohh I'm nowhere near that stage yet, thankfully! There's a few plyo moves on those silly things and I'm doing my best. The toe tap I can do okay, forget plyo pushups over them...

But as the man himself says... "Do your best, and forget the rest!"