Do Body Building and Vegan Go Together?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
"I have noticed a big improvement since I started in my flexibility. I noticed this the other day when I realized just how much farther I can stretch now. I could not lower completely into a sitting squat without tipping before. Now I can and it sure as heck makes working in really low areas for a longer time very easy without resorting to bending (bad weighted flexed) which I refuse to do at all now.
"I have seen increases in all areas of stretching. I see that it just takes time and consistency.
"Since I am a musician, I carry a guitar bag everywhere. I decided to make a "portable" gym. Got a pull-up bar that goes in doors (removes and mounts quickly) and my guitar bag. That is all I need. I fill the bag with random objects to add weight and strap it on (like a backpack) and do everything from the books with increased weight and also pull-ups of all kinds of grips/variations for more challenge. You mentioned the wall handstand pushups and this reminded me of that. I strap my weighted bag to my back and do those now too. No need to go to the gym =P
"PS my friends think the wall stand pushups are "nuts" and can barely hold themselves up in position when they try. Who needs the military press? I actually found this to be much harder because of all the stabilization. Unlike a machine or barbell, it feels like a lot more muscles are coming into play a bit more when doing them like that. Seems so with almost all the body weight exercises. No wonder aside from cosmetics, weight training has no functional use outside of the gym. Takes a bonehead like me to realize this!
"Oddly, since I had changed my diet from meats and animal to Vegan (inspired by the body builders you have shown on the Fitness fixer) I have had people comment that I seem to be getting bigger! This is kinda funny because I actually lost some mass and it is mostly body fat from the weightlifting diet (now changed to vegan) and doing these exercises in place of weight training. They often do not believe me when I say I have not touched the bench in 3 months or so now. =0"
How to get started with a wall handstand:
- Wall Handstand Success With Liz. Use your brain. Be safe and careful, obviously.
Mr. Davis' fun stories:
- Video of how to do handstand pushups - Fast Fitness - Add Balance, Stability, and Portability to Military Press - Handstand Pushups
- Cardiovascular Cleanup
- Fast Fitness - Better Legs and Pain Relief Comes From You Not The Exercise Ball
- Fixed Injuries, Got Strong, With Functional Exercise
Mr. Jim Morris, Mr. America, vegan bodybuilder at age 72:
- Mr. America Urges Goodness and Responsibility
- Mr. Morris is a role model, and practitioner of the DrBookspan.com/Academy
Healthy vegetarian ways - healthier nutrition and Earth resources by not mass producing, killing, and eating animals and their products:
Vegetarian and vegan bodybuilders and martial artists:
Watch for Fast Fitness this Friday to see what Robert Davis will show you next.
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Read success stories of these methods and send your own.
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4 Comments:
At Friday, May 15, 2009 12:03:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Hello Dr. Bookspan,
I am a newcomer that only recently found your website and I hope i am posting my question to the right place. To begin with: thank you for providing this wealth of knowledge and sharing your advise !
By way of a quick background to my question: i changed my life style about ~9 months ago: my current nutrition is pure vegetables-based vegan food (adding, fruits, avocado, beans, seeds & nuts; almost no grains), and i am exercising about 3 times per week (mostly strength training + some aerobic). The good news: i lost 25 pounds and i feel much better. The other news: despite the relatively intensive strength training (each session ~45-60 minutes of hard weight lifting, using combination of body weight exercsises & dumbelss), my body frame is substantially narrower, and my wife & daughers are dead worried that i become too skinny, if not ill (while i believe that my arms are toned, i have to concur that they are much smaller, and most of all other body parts are mostly bones and some fat, not much visible evidence of muscles). My PCP ordered some tests and concluded that everything is ok, thus left me searching elsewhere for an answer to the bothering question: why my strength training exercise + healthy nutritionam does not result in building any substantial muscle mass?
Inspired by your writing on this blog, i ordered 4 of your books, and i am just finishing reading "Health & Fitness in Plan English" (as great as i expected!). This is when i realized that i might be eating too little protein: my typical daily nutrition is ~1-2 pounds of raw and steamed vegetables(mostly green leafy and/or cruciferous vegetables), 3-4 freshh fruits, some beans & peas, ~1 pound of seeds & nuts, and some avocado; I add some brown rice or whole grains bread ~2-3 times a week. According to the USDA nutriotional database, this amouts to a daily consumption of ~40 grams of protein. As my weight is 145 pounds (height is 5.6''), your book's indication of ~1 gram of protein per each 1kg suggest that i may be eating too little protein.
My questions to you (pardon the long introduction):
1. Does the above conclusion sound about right: that i may have protein difficiency?
2. Given your writing about the first "30 min." stocking window after an execrcise: are there any specific foods you would recommend for eating after the training exercise, primarily for the purpose of trying to build muscle mass?
3. Is there any other generic advise you might have for someone trying to eat healthy and build muscle mass?
Thanks!
At Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:47:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Does anyone know if this is the right way to post a question to Dr. Bookspan ?
At Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:31:00 PM,
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM said…
Hello, questions can be left here. Best to put your question in a post of that topic, for example an Achilles tendon question in the Achilles tendon posts. Then readers with similar questions can benefit, when they look up their answers here.
I get hundreds every day. I am not paid and am answering all as quickly as good answers can come. Check what it says above, right in the post, "Questions come in by the hundreds. I make posts from cool ones. Before asking, see if your answers are already here by clicking labels under posts, links in posts, and archives at right."A main intention of comments is for readers to help each other by replying with their own knowledge.
I am not the comment moderator. If Healthline does not approve a comment, it does not appear. I only see comments when they appear in my mail, with the hundreds of other questions that come in daily. Also, direct medical personal questions couldn't be answered without x-ray vision and three lawyers. Watch for posts to come. Good questions become posts, with credit to the commenter.
At Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:04:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Thanks for the clarification.
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