The aforementioned pictures of my very first bodybuilding shoot have arrived. Check them out (here). Please remember that despite all the practicing, I am far from a master at posing technique yet. That shoot was a great chance for me…
Category: Bodybuilding
Big Weights for Big Strong Muscles – Derek
I know not everyone reading this may see gaining muscle and strength as a top priority, but for those that do I wanted to outline some techniques that are a good way to achieve this goal, and for those more…
Eating Healthy On The Go – Derek
While going through food journals one of the comments I make most is “add a meal/snack here”. Many people are busy and find it hard to get a solid meal or snack in every 3-4 hours. Many more are used…
New Weight Set!
I finished classes last week (yay), but have still found posting difficult, so I don’t think I will be able to more than once or twice a week. For our workouts, we bought a used weight set and have been…
Vegan Weight Gainer revision, and more
As I had mentioned I’ve been playing around with the weight gainer shake we made up to aid in my calorie surplus. Through trial and error I have whittled away some unnecessary ingredients to make it easier to make and/or…
Try high reps for some good lean fun
The posting seems to have come a halt as life (school exams+work) has been busy lately, but with only one more week of classes things should slow down a bit and I will be posting more often. I have missed…
Weights, Nutrition, and Beer
The past week has been rather crazy. With school winding down, finding time to post has proven difficult. The same goes for working out, so my last ‘official’ workout was a chest+back day (shown below), and what has followed since…
Discovery: Vegan Weight Gainer!
During my recent quest to put on a couple pounds of muscle, I have found it hard to get enough calories in without eating tons of shakes or bars because of my crazy schedule.I don’t like or recommend getting a…
Birthday Muscles
The strain of my birthday was such that I could not post until now. I have had a couple hurried mini workouts, but my last real one was on the 15th, and is listed below. Aside from the workouts being…
Moroccan Food and Relative Muscularity
For lunch we went to go to Cous Cous, and incidentally, if you live in RVA and get a Val-Pak in your mailbox every month, there will always be a buy-one-get-one-free coupon in there for this place. They have delicious…
More big weights, and now on to something better
My final routine of this power phase is completed. I threw legs in with arms because the routine for them will remain the same until my knee feels 100%. I’d like to give more thanks to Marcella for her…
My Weight Loss So Far
Here’s an interesting thing: even though I can’t say I’ve really made any special effort to lose weight over the seven years that I’ve been vegan, I have lost a lot. Most of it very slowly over 5 years of…
More Great Workouts and Some Important Nutritional Observations
Two more workouts to list today. I am now in my power phase, so my workouts have been mostly me sitting around and once in a while lifting very heavy weights. It’s not very exciting, but it is…
Fried food makes my stomach hurt
We decided yesterday to get Vietnamese for lunch, at Mekong because they at least offer brown rice instead of white, and lots of vegan menu options (forgot to bring the camera, doh!). I didn’t want any rice or anything saucy…
Two workouts and a lot of food later…
I was too tired to post last night, so tonight without further ado I will put them up. Yesterday I managed to get both arms and shoulders in because I had some cancellations in the afternoon, and today I went…
Lions and Pizza and Pears, oh my!
Shoulders day is my very favorite workout day, something I never would have imagined. I used to have a lot of rotator cuff issues with my shoulders and couldn’t extend or bring in my arms at certain angles and they…
Is that all I’m eating?
I know Marcella is covering our meals, but for anyone who is curious I thought I’d mention that I also eat several other times throughout the day. I have always had a very fast metabolism, and with such a lean…
Hooray for Chest/Back Day!
My favorite day finally came around again today, and I also had slightly sore legs for the first time in ages. I had a cancellation this morning so I found myself in an empty gym with nearly two full hours…
The Doubtful Salad, and other stories
Chest/Back day, second only to shoulder day imo. Sadly, we got a late start so I had to work out at home, followed of course by the usual fruit/protein shake … I’ve decided that a rushed, sub-par home workout, even…
Derek’s Workout
Today was an exciting day (haha) because I was able to do a full-blown legs routine without my knee acting up. I went light on the exercises, but this is very much what one of my leg routines would normally…