Best way to gain muscle on a Vegan diet? What do you need to eat.?

Question

Any Vegan gainers? What do you eat to gain mass and muscle?

Answer 1

PROTEIN!!!!!!

Cliff bar makes a protein bar that called builder's that has 20g of protein in it. Protein shakes (buy soy protein powder or other vegan protein powders), if you bake you can add this stuff in your baked goods.

Tofu, soy meats, soy jerkey, tempeh, nuts...

Same rules apply as with non vegan gainers...eat often (6x a day), eat healthy, no junk, stay within proportions of 30-50% protein, 20-50% carbohydrates and 20-40% fat.

Check this site out:

http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/

Answer 2

If you're a vegan then maybe fish or chicken?

Answer 3

Lots of soy, beans, nuts, leafy greens. You just need to eat a regular healthy diet and add in a few hundred extra calories a day while working out so you can build muscle. If you don't eat extra calories, then your body will actually burn muscle rather than build it.

Answer 4

It's not about protein.  Protein is ever where and in everything.  That's just marketing propaganda.

Top of the list, you need to work those muscles.  There are some totally huge and ripped people out there that eat nothing special, they just throw 100 pound sacks onto trucks all day long.  What they need is enough 'energy' to be able to do this all day.  Eventually they get used to it and need to eat far less than before when it becomes everyday stuff.  But generally speaking, larger muscles use more energy... so basically you'll need to eat more.  Focus on the quality of the food you eat, freshness, etc.

This guy is vegan: he's got muscle.

http://www.mikemahler.com

Read this:

http://www.mikemahler.com/articles/vegan...

Well, that's his personal take on it and his personal experience.  You need to experiment for yourself.  I do not agree on what he says about soy, as I consume real plain soymilk, made from soybeans and water... nothing added.  Same goes for my tofu.  A billion Chinese people have not prob. with it, and neither do I.  It's the highly processed soy products that are bad (as all highly processed products are).  The estrogen he speaks of is plant estrogen, totally incompatible with humans.

Answer 5

http://www.veganfitness.net/forum/viewto...

http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/phpBB2/...

http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/?page=b...

Answer 6

Im vegan and started a routine this summer.

I get up eat breakfast- Cerial w/ soymilk, 2 slices whole wheat bread, a banana, and apple juice for energy.

I leave to workout, ride my bike 2 miles to the gym, workout for an hour to an hour and 15 mins.

Come home eat a protein shake with soy powder and a jumbo vegan dog and 3 slices of white, bleached bread which is about 60Gs of protein.

I wait 2 hours, about noon and eat a veggie chickn patty and 2 slices of wholegrain bread.

2 hours after that is a veggie dog, 2 more slices of wholegrain bread.

a small snack before i workout again.

Go workout

come home veggie dog and protein shake

and before i go to bed at night i drink another shake.

This diet works well and keeps me full of energy

I dont take a multivitamin but the soy power i put in my shakes has more than enough vitamins in it and has everything in my old multivitamins.

Answer 7

protein protein protein. the best vegan source of protein are beans. especially soy or adzuki. soy-milk is also ofcourse a good way to get protein.

They do also make protein shakes from that. but be careful, many of those have animal products in them. at a healthstore they will be able to help you. the clerk will probably know which use animal products and which dont.

Answer 8

Check out http://veganbodybuilding.com/?page=menu_... for some vegan bodybuilding meal plans and nutrition articles. I hope this helps!

Answer 9

Ok, I LOVE cliff bars, they are vegan and have lots of protien1 Tofu also has a lot of protien. Fake meats are loaded with soy protien! There are so many options. I would go for fake meat, they taste really good, as do clif bars...but I don't care for tofu.=)