vegan_rossco

Hey welcome! what do your cardio and weight workouts look like and what's your goal? hope I can be of some help

Ah I can imagine it may be difficult to find certain foods, just keep those calories up! yeah I'm enjoying it and progress is pretty fast trying to slow myself down to avoid injury as I'm starting to get back pain some days

sorry!

Should have paid attention to that.

And that's fair enough, it's not that I buy the rice protein for the taste it's just that I found pea protein so gross that I would use a crap load of agave nectar or maple syrup to make it bareable ahha I'm just fussy, fair point with the ratios of carbs and proteins, the rice protein I get from the vegan section of myprotein.co.uk and it's 80 odd percent protein which is good enough for me

Waht happened with the chest workout matey?

Next time I'm dead lifting is friday so as long as I'm training with a friend I'll get a video the guy running the place says my forms alright so I think I'm okay, just can't pull enough dam weight with them :/

Monday 29/10/12 Bodyweight 79 Kg

So it's half term which meant the gym was pretty dead, just a couple of instructors cleaning and a few guys using the machines, got soaked on the way to the gym as it was pissing down so needed a good session to cheer me up!

Dead lifts

60 Kg x 5

70 Kg x 5

80 Kg x 3

90 Kg x 3 < these were fucking ugly.. barely counted them but hey a Pb is a Pb so I'm happy regardless, my back is feeling a little funny now though :/ I guess I just suck at deadlifting, going to try and progress slowly from now on, 5 Kg at a time

Pull ups, at this point nicki minaj came on in the gym.. so I grabbed my headphones whacked out some A day to remember and hit some pull ups!

x8 PB!

x5

x4 Had enough at this point

Did a few sets on the lat pull down machine and seated row machine, don't know the weights as they go up in numbers instead of weight :/

Overall today was a good'en

Here in the UK we have a brand called 40+ which do a vegan protein consisting of pea protein, I really don't like it so won't ever switch to it. I use brown rice just because it's flavourless and I can mix it with juice

Hey there buddy!how are you finding stronglifts so far?

Wow! Krav maga, as in the self defence style? That sounds awesome

@carrot topless, that's a fantastic welcome

hey electric oceans and shergbear! welcome to the forum

haha and I will

deadlifting tomorrow and I'm gonna test my strength big time, then deload and work my way up for some prs by the end of the year!

Thanks mate, just that I've only recently started doing them properly, deadlifting tomorrow so I'll step it up abit

Fair point, okay fuck it here goes

(These orm are calculated)

Bodyweight 78Kg/171lbs

Squat 115 Kg/250lbs

Bench 72.5 Kg/160lbs

Deadlift 95 Kg/210lbs

Need to work on deadlift big time!

Stressful and shit day at work so came home to some grip training and stretching to calm myself down ahha

my lower back was playing up last night and this morning but feels fine now.

I would post mine but feel a little ashamed as I'm completely outclassed by you guys ahha I'll wait till the end of the year when I've made some decent progress

Well I write it as weight per dumbbell but it wont matter too much as long as you specify

If you don't mind me asking, where abouts are you from?

This is good stuff man nice shrugs, and agreed on the trap pump

I'll make sure I pop by and check out this log more often my friend keep it up

Friday 26/10/12 Bodyweight 78.5Kg (ish)

Had a day off and spent the day doing fuck all so come training time I Felt crap and lazy, but the show must go on..

Bench press

20 Kg (empty bar) x 5 reps

40 Kg x 5 reps

50 Kg x 5 reps

60 Kg x 5 reps

65 Kg x 3 reps

60 Kg x 5 reps

A few sets on the hammer strength (bench machine)

65 Kg x 5 reps

70 Kg x 3 reps

72.5 Kg x 1 rep

25 press ups on knuckles

Dips

x10

x8

x8

Squats with safety bar

25 Kg (empty bar) x 5

65 Kg x 5

75 Kg x 5

85 Kg x 5

100 Kg x 5

felt fine, got a bit lower this time too

there was a deadlifting lesson going on next to me during the squats and I had a craving to do some, resisted thankfully ahha, waiting until monday night

Also noticed that you did a "rocks on the beach workout" In june me and some friends took a road trip up to cornwall for the week to see blink182 and chill out, we stayed in a dodgey cottage by the beach and did the exact same thing with the rocks on the beach stone overhead presses deadlifts etc so satisfying to chuck em ahha

Hey! Welcome to the forum, do you have a training log? And where abouts are you from?

This is amazing dude! You make my arms look like spaghetti

I am not an expert by any means at all, and everything I know is really anecdotal. But, looking through the profiles on this website, you can see what people have achieved. None of them say "when I switched to veganism, things got much harder". So I find it unlikely that there is a disadvantage, of any significance.

 

The ratio of vegans to non-vegans is very, very low. Add to that, most vegans are actually not interested in fitness or bodybuilding (I think, primarily because the people who become vegan do it for ethical reasons, and are generally less concerned with what they look like, and more concerned with animal rights issues etc). So, there are going to be hardly any examples of vegan bodybuilders (in comparison to non-vegan bodybuilders). With such a difference in numbers, of course there will also be larger numbers of non-vegan bodybuilders who achieve larger size. I don't think that that indicates that it's harder for vegans, it's more likely to me that there are just less vegans who are aiming for that.

 

There may also be mistakes that people make when becoming vegan, but I don't think that means that veganism is "hard" to deal with. The changes needed (primarily, eating more of the right foods) are not complex.

 

Finally I want to add that it's not as clear cut as saying "non-veganism leads to better results than veganism". First of all, non-veganism and veganism are not black and white. It's not as though everyone who eats a non-vegan diet eats precisely the same meals as each other, and likewise, the same is not true of vegans. So it's impossible to compare. But even more importantly, just comparing the lifestyles on what they may do for your bodybuilding short-term (over a span of a few years), is ultimately irrelevant when you consider what high levels of animals products will do to you long term. I realise the following is a little extreme, but you could find a drug which pumps you up and makes your muscles huge for 10 years, then after that it kills you. You might say "people who don't take that drug are at a disadvantage in terms of bodybuilding" - but would you recommend people take it?

spot on matey! +1

Scooby is great but he is a bit of a food nazi (he even admits this)

to be honest though, whether or not I am at a disadvantage being a vegan with an ambition to grow strength and size I don't mind at all, I certainly wouldn't quit being vegan just to make better gains.

hey there! stronglifts 5x5 is great I'm doing something fairly similar but separating squat and deadlift days plus starting a bit heavier, I'll be sure to keep checking in my friend

p.s I had dead lift day today.. ouch (: