Vegan Muscle and Fitness

Bringing Up Baby…Vegan Style!

Part TWO of my series on vegan pregnancy and raising vegan children is up at the website of our sponsor, Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness! This is fitting, because our little…

Bodybuilding Workout

The Basic Requirements for Gaining Muscle

Ever wonder if your mass-gaining plan is covering all the bases? There are a few basic necessities that anyone on any kind of diet (vegan or otherwise) needs to considering…

Health Nutrition Vegan Children

Vegan Pregnancy and Vegan Kids

My long overdue article on vegan pregnancy and childhood is up! Building Vegan Bodies from Scratch: 3 Myths About Vegan Pregnancy and Raising Vegan Children Dispelled, Part 1 can be viewed…

Breakfast Dessert Gluten-Free

Gluten-Free Fig Bar Muffins (with a PB&J variation)

One morning we were out of oats and just about everything else that I could make breakfast out of. There was, however, half of a pre-baked sweet potato in the…

Breakfast

Gluten-Free Quinoa Pancakes

I've been experimenting with more gluten-free recipes lately due to some crazy inflammation in my finger joints. Seems like we hardly eat anything to eliminate with an elimination diet to…

Fitness

How We Met

Warning: this has only a little bit to do with veganism. It's just a fun human interest Valentine's Day story, I suppose! If you like mmorpgs and surprise romantic endings,…

Bodybuilding Lunch Main Dish

Black Bean Burrito Cooking Demo

Who makes a video of cooking something as obvious as a burrito? Me, that's who! Why, WHY would I further saturate the internet with something so inane, you might ask?…

Breakfast Lunch Main Dish

Delicious and Affordable Plant-Based Meals 10 Percent Off!

We have good news for those of you who may be struggling with transitioning to a vegan diet or preparing nutritious plant-based meals during a busy week: Veestro is here! Veestro is…

Breakfast Recipe

Deliciously spiced without being "spicy", this is my absolute favorite tofu scramble version yet. Our almost two-year-old ate four plates of it this morning murmuring "good", "very good", and "tasty"…

Disease Prevention Health

Animal Agriculture Update – FDA Bans Antibiotics in Meat!

I recently posted on many of the ways which modern animal farming practices put the public at risk (see Here) for things like flu epidemics and antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.…

Bodybuilding Nutrition Recipe

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…

Dessert Recipe

Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies with NO Oil or Refined Sugar

We love dessert as much as the next people. Maybe even more. And we're fortunate (or unfortunate) to live in a city with many vegan sweet options available. In fact,…

Bodybuilding Health Workout

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…

Events Health

How Eating Animals Can Affect Public Health

We just went to a great dinner with the Richmond Vegetarian and Vegan Meetup group and listened to Dr. Aysha Akhtar, a double Board-certified neurologist and public health specialist, speak…

Bodybuilding Workout

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…

Bodybuilding

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…

Bodybuilding

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 &…

Fitness

Group Personal Training Available in September!

The May session of our Group Personal Training classes is now complete and we're looking for up to 12 motivated people to join the next session in September! We had…

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…

Bodybuilding

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…