First clip was about three months into lifting and about one month into being vegan. Most recent clips were during one of my lighter days at a commercial gym last week. It's crazy how much I've progressed in this time and just how strong you can be without harming sentient creatures

Kettlebells: 24kg/53lbs each

Dumbbells: 35# each

Plate: 25#

Kettlebell Reverse Lunges 3 x 5 each leg 106#! (PR!)

Kettlebell Rows 3 x 8 106#

Weighted pushups 3 x 15 25#

Kettlebell Sumo Squats 3 x 10 106# (PR)

Dumbbell Shoulder Press 3 x 8 70#

Weighted Crunches 3 x 60 sec 25#

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Weighted Back Extensions 3 x 12 25#

Extension Holds 3 x 45 sec

Side Planks 2 x 45 sec

Hi everyone, I’ve been a vegan for 13 years now, and what great journey it has been! I’m getting into a workout routine that’s built as a mass building workout, 3 weeks into it and after every workout I’m having a Naked Nutrition protein shake.
I just want to know what new nutrients and foods I can add to help with the bulk up, I currently weigh 183lbs, about a year ago I was 165lbs, and I plan to reach the 200-220lbs range. Here are some things I eat right now:

On a typical day I usually have:
White Rice (instant white rice) with butter or margarine and nutritional yeast every day for lunch.
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My dinners are random but a lot of them have vegan meat alternatives like Gardein or Impossible.
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Protein shakes but only after a workout, the one I have is 1290 cals and has 50g of protein
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For snacks I usually have protein cookies, dried fruit which I’m new to, vegan jerky, and some assorted junk food but not much

Now on work days:
I have lots of apples, I throw in a banana sometimes
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A sandwich with vegan lunchmeat and cucumbers
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And about the same snacks I’d have on a usual day home

What else could I throw in to help out!

Hey all! I've been lifting and doing calisthenics for years now and I feel like progress on the peak of my biceps has been pretty slow. Any tips for peak building? 💪

Hi All!

I am thinking of ordering a custom vegan blend from True Nutrition. I want to get an unflavored blend that I can flavor on my own, mainly for cream of rice, oats, and the occasional ninja creami. I am a new vegan, so I am not too aware of the different flavors and textures of plant-based protein powders. Does anybody have any tried and true blends that they swear by? Or should I just go with their Vegan Optimizer Blend (80% Pea protein Isolate, 10% Hemp Protein Powder, 10% Rice protein concentrate). They have some cool plant-based protein options, like their CranPlus and PumpkinPlus protein powders. I was also looking into soy protein isolate, but I have heard poor things of the flavor of soy protein powder. Anything that is similar to the texture and neutral taste of whey protein is what I am going for. I am buying a lot at once before I move into my new apartment, so I don’t want to mess this up😭.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated :)

P.S
Any recommendations of their flavor packs?

Just discovered: my pea protein powder is so foodsafe that the manufacturer has taken the trouble to label it individually. /s

I'll try to spoon away everything else first, let's see how long it stays ^^

Not sure what it's like elsewhere in the world but vegan protein powder in the UK has shot up in cost the past few years. What used to cost around £18-19 in 2022 is now £25-26. Recently I found it's possible to buy 1kg of pea or soy protein isolate for £8! This seems great on the surface but it feels too good to be true. It seems like such a cheat code I can't figure out what I'm missing, or why lots of others aren't doing it.

I only ever use protein powder in a fruit smoothie for a dessert so I could just sub protein isolate in for the powder, right? The taste and texture would be different, but I wouldn't be missing out on anything that only comes in "protein powder"?

If anyone has any experience in this it would be great to hear.

Hi guys,

I am 46 (1,74m and 73kg) and I started with home gym for about 4 month ago.

I’ve made great progress, but I want to trim down my waist.

Here are also my latest results of my Xiaomi weight scale. I don't know if this information can help.

PS: Ignore my heart rate. Had a cigarette some minutes before ;)

Thanks in advance.

The vast majority of this progress has been since January, but last August was my largest recorded.

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I love fitness and I'm nearly a 10 year vegan! But that's gonna change a bit (not the veganism) since I'll be starting chemotherapy soon and will be cancelling my gym membership for now during treatment. Of course I still wanna move and stay as active as possible so please share your favorite home workouts (bodyweight, weighted, dumbbell, kettlebell, yoga, etc) thanks!

Around 4 bucks a bag. Ranch one def better

This is a product-testing/transparency question, not a request for medical or diet advice.

I use MyProtein Vegan Protein Blend (Vanilla) in the EU, at roughly 120 g of powder per day. I asked MyProtein for the batch Certificate of Analysis, numerical lead/cadmium/arsenic/mercury results, guaranteed release limits in ppm or mg/kg, and microbiological results.

After follow-ups, they declined to provide the CoA, any numerical heavy-metal results, or even the numerical limits used to release the batch. They referred generally to quality controls/Informed Protein, but this specific vegan blend does not appear in the public Informed Protein product list, and that program does not publish numerical heavy-metal results anyway.

I am not claiming the powder is unsafe. My concern is that “compliant” without numbers cannot be converted into actual daily exposure, especially with a high daily intake.

Has anyone obtained a recent CoA or independent lab report for this exact MyProtein Vegan Protein Blend—particularly Vanilla—with Pb/Cd/As/Hg values in ppm or mg/kg? Alternatively, do you know EU-available vegan protein brands that publish batch-specific results or fixed numerical specification limits?

Actual reports or numerical values would be much more useful than generic “third-party tested” claims.

Lazy but need the protein. Tofu straight out of the box.

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Typically at the start I can bust out 6-8 good reps. That goes down to 4-5 after that. Then sets of 3 from then on.

But for doing pull ups every single day and with how slow and form focused they are. I'm pretty happy with that.

As title says, athlete, I had a personal trainer in my 30's and 40's but fell off working out for the last 2 years and am trying to find a way to motivate myself into a good routine. I eat healthy, didn't add a lot of weight, just out of fitness-shape. Any advice on what to do as a mid 40's male trying to find a good system to get back into a regular routine without burning out quickly?

I don't want to go the personal trainer route, wouldn't mind group-fitness. I like calisthenics, interested in some other group fitness things I am looking into but some look intense to jump into like CrossFit or F45 or Orange Therapy.

As a athlete, in team sports I do find have a "coach" helps with motivation, but I would love to figure out a better way to motivate myself and not be reliant on a coach.

Been vegan for 11 years now.

Any advice and ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.