Bodybuilding – Page 4 – Vegan Muscle and Fitness

Our Blueprint for a Vegan Meal Plan and Bonus Grocery List

I followed up my recent VBB&F article, How to Eat the Same Thing Every Day Without Getting Bored, with a sample meal plan last month. Simple and clear as could…

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Derek’s Top 3 Tips for Building Your Best Physique!

In this month's article for Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness, I covered my three favorite tips to give anyone looking to improve their physique - and since that's virtually everyone (myself…

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Tips To Improve Your Next Workout!

This month on VeganBodybuilding.com I shared my two favorite techniques for turning around bad workouts. We all have days when we just don't want to be in the gym (usually…

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Fall Happenings and New Shirts!

Last weekend we had a booth at DC VegFest representing both Vegan Muscle and Fitness as well as Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness, and it was a blast! The event…

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You Don’t Have to Be a Competitor to Lose Fat Like One!

I shared our strategies for getting me from 29.1% body fat post-baby to 12% body fat for our recent bodybuilding competition at the website of our sponsor, Vegan Bodybuilding &…

Bodybuilding Nutrition

My Bodybuilding Secrets Revealed!

With the success of team Plantbuilt in Austin last month we've been getting a lot of questions about how we train and what we eat. Well, it just so happens…

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The First Annual ‘Vegan Olympia’ At the Naturally Fit Super Show!

We're back and catching our breath after competing in Austin, Texas at the Naturally Fit Super Show - and it was a blast! Austin is a beautiful city with wonderful…

Bodybuilding Dessert

Chocolate Banana Protein “Ice Cream”

With our busy training schedule posting has been pretty difficult, so here's a quick post on our sponsor. We were enjoying some delicious ice 'cream' on our last re-feed day…

Bodybuilding Nutrition

A Brutally Honest Look at Marcella’s Bodybuilding Contest Prep

I say "brutally honest" because my before shots are so abysmal! I wasn't even trying to go for those magazine ad-style shots where the model is all slumped and pasty…

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Just 7 Weeks Until Our Vegan Bodybuilding Contest!

Our preparation for the Naturally Fit Supershow in Austin TX is coming right along and we're getting ready to enter the home stretch! As you can see from Marcella's last…

Bodybuilding Nutrition

Vegan Bodybuilding Contest Prep: Marcella’s 8 Week Update

I first posted on my progress here and Derek posted a brief update here. I began this journey, 8 months after the birth of my son, at 29.1% body fat…

Bodybuilding Main Dish Recipe

Roasted Cauliflower and Chickpea Bowl

Actually this recipe has more components than listed - I just didn't want the title to get out of hand. This meal, which Derek and I just enjoyed for the…

Bodybuilding Nutrition Workout

14 Weeks Out!

The Naturally Fit Super Show in Austin, TX is approaching fast, so over the past two weeks Marcella and I have shifted from off season into pre-contest mode! Here's the…

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The Biggest Vegan Bodybuilding Event Ever!

Marcella and I have been in heads-down training and working mode recently so we haven't been posting as much as we should, but I wanted to update everyone on…

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Online Group Personal Training and New Member Portal

It's been a busy, busy year for us thanks to the sudden widespread interest in plant-based nutrition and fitness (finally)! We opened a local personal training studio, Root Force Personal…

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Getting Back in Shape – From New Mom to Female Bodybuilding Competitor?!?

Workout and excerpt from our meal plan included in this post! I last posted on my progress here. Having just become the mother of this adorable little nugget I really…

Bodybuilding Nutrition

L-Leucine Makes Wheat Protein as Anabolic as Whey

I follow several health, fitness, and nutrition websites and magazines to keep abreast of new research, as well as common practices. Today I came across an interesting article demonstrating that plant-based protein…

Bodybuilding Nutrition

My Pre-Contest Meals

Seeing as I just wrapped up one contest prep and am now staying in pre contest mode for the 2013 Bodyspace spokesmodel search (Vote Treesize!!), I thought now would be…

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Voting Has Begun!

The 2013 Bodybuilding.com Spokesmodel search is on! Please go to the link below and choose my photo (labeled Treesize), then click VOTE! This is a huge opportunity and I think…

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Vote This November! …And My Contest Results

It's almost November and this year I will be competing in Bodybuilding.com's 2013 Spokesmodel Search! I competed in this online contest in 2010 and made it to the semifinals, so this year…