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 be, it lays out exactly what both Derek and I…
Category: Bodybuilding
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 included) I think it’s important to keep these things in…
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 when we’re about to step under a heavy squat bar,…
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 was packed all day long (the Vegan Treats booth had…
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! Here’s an excerpt: With 8 months left to prepare…
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 I did an interview with Vegan Body Revolution founder Thomas…
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 food, the event was a smashing success, and whenever Marcella…
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 before carbing up (2 weeks out!!), and I thought I’d…
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 before trying a fat-loss product, but ti sure looks like…
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 post, we’ve been making excellent progress on a high carb…
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 and significantly weaker than I had been pre-pregnancy with serious…
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 first time, is filling and really flavorful in spite of…
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 down low on what we’re doing to prepare for this…
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 one of the things we’re currently preparing for – the…
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 Training, right about the time Miles was born last year…
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 could not imagine bringing the intensity of days past to…
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 such as wheat can easily be made as anabolic (muscle…
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 a good time to post some of the meals I’ve…
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 we can go far this year so your support means…
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 I hope to take it ever further and win a…