Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

So I'm sure most of you have seen that dietary nitrates (not the kind from processed meats) improve sports performance if taken before a workout. Arugula, kale, rhubarb and other leafy greens are high in nitrates, the problem is, if I wanted to consume enough nitrates from one of these, I'd have to ...

Welcome! Glad you made the switch

My skin looked better after a week! And I think it's also really cool that since I have no meat in my kitchen, there's less worries about switching cutting boards and knives and where I store things in the fridge. Most of the dangers in food safety come from meat and animal products IMO

I think starting bodybuilding at 74 makes you quite the inspiration! Good Luck!!

I've never encountered anyone with this problem lol. My first question would be how much body fat% are you? You might not have as much muscle as you think you do. You didn't mention that you do any strength training, so I'm not sure that you have that much. What kind of martial arts do you do? Are w...

I used to work 14 -16 hour days while i was competing, so eating 6 times a day. Most of my meals would be eaten away from home. I wasn't vegan then, but I can tell you that you just have to get used to eating things cold. I got soo used to it that now I eat my leftovers cold all the time lol. To mak...

Hey guys, Just introducing myself :). My name is Vanessa and I have been vegan for two months! I used to compete in bikini division NPC but stopped about a year and a half ago to focus on life. So I had developed kind of a nasty habit of eating wayyyy too much meat, eggs and whey. Gross. A couple mo...