Vegan Bodybuilding

I found a resource that i forgot about until my P90X Coach* brought it back to my mind. Thinking i might be better able to work with a raw foods diet, i did a quick web search and came up with this rather promising site:

Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Okay, so i have NO intentions of becoming a bodybuilder. It's not that i don't think i could do it, it's just that the bodybuilder body type is not what i'm going for. But i knew i'd heard about vegetarian bodybuilders before, so i knew there had to be something somewhere. And this site has some great tips and info for vegans who are into bodybuilding and fitness. Naturally, if you're vegetarian but not vegan (like me), you can still find some great info. Check out the Articles section for tips on bodybuilding, nutrition, and training.

*My coach is John Cowart – check out his site, Where's My SixPack? If you're thinking of doing P90X or one of the other BeachBody programs, you can sign up on his "Make Me Your Coach" link to have him coach you too.

DAY 6 - In the Groove

Dear P90X Diary,

Kenpo-X is great! One hour of martial arts moves that's a great aerobic workout. And i could do the entire thing! HELL YEAH!!!

Okay, that's a lot of exclamation points.

I love this one. I almost put it on repeat and did it again. (Okay, not so much.) Trust me, it wasn't easy, but i rated it a "3" on the difficulty scale, since i could actually do the bloody thing. I also got a strange feeling that if i did this enough times, i'd be better prepared to kick somebody's ass. Not planning to test that theory anytime soon.

Such a good kind of tired feeling this week. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's X-Stretch session. On the schedule, you have the option of taking the day off to rest, or doing the stretch. I contemplated taking the day off, but since it's my first time through, i figured i'd go ahead and try it. I'm actually looking forward to getting more limber through this process too, so that's a good thing.


Food.

The eating is still what's going to get me. Based on my initial calculations, i should be eating about 2,400 calories a day for this first phase of the program. (There are some specific recommendations i won't go into here, largely because i'm still not sure i get it.) Since it's Labor Day and i'm at home, i made it a point to pay very careful attention to everything i ate today. Well, here it is 7:00 PM, and i've only got 1200 calories down. I still need to have dinner and there's room for another snack later, but i'm afraid i'm just not eating enough. Strange for me, since i already was eating all the time. I need to get some meal replacement bars to amp up my total caloric intake in a balanced way. Or learn to cook.

Day six done. One more to say i've made it through a full week's cycle.

DAY 1 - Update

Forgot to mention there's been a change of plans. After reading some of the information in the Nutrition Plan and looking at how my day typically flows, i decided to go for an evening approach rather than morning. Since i'm not a morning person (at all) i would likely be stumbling out of the bed straight to the basement and trying to work out on no nutrition or hydration at all. Not good. So this evening when i get home from work, i'm taking on my first session.

That's if the stupid meal planning doesn't kill me first. Can't keep anything in my head that long. All that information in the book just ran together. And i don't cook. I need somebody to help me figure out the best approach to eating right.

Damn. Is there an App for that?

Beddy-Bye

Dear P90X Diary,

I need to go to bed. The plan is to get up an hour earlier each day (i've been "rehearsing" for a week or more now) and do my P90X in the morning. That means 5:30 AM. That means i should be asleep already. I haven't finished reading the Nutrition Plan, but that doesn't mean i'm not starting tomorrow. Lord help me, i'm really gonna do this thing.

Good night....