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Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:07 |
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A pure vegetarian (Vegan) diet is not conducive to building muscle, and a diet that
is not conducive to building muscle is also not conducive to getting and staying lean. One
thing you will never see is a rock-hard, massive and muscular vegan. Lacto-vegetarians
(Those who use dairy products) and ovo-lacto-vegetarians (Those who use eggs and dairy
products) can build excellent physiques. Bodybuilding champion Bill Pearl is just one
example. Pearl is well known for his lifelong aversion to eating meat, but he does use
complete proteins from eggs or dairy products. With this semi-vegetarian approach, Pearl
won the Mr. America and Mr. Universe titles and became a legend in the bodybuilding and fitness world. You can get fit, healthy and lean without consuming animal proteins, but unless
you at least include eggs, dairy or protein powders, you will never develop a muscular
physique. If a lean and muscular physique is what you're after, then heed the advice of
Robert Kennedy, publisher of Muscle Mag International and author of "Rock Hard, Super Nutrition for Bodybuilders:" "The bodybuilder would be ill-advised to adopt a true vegetarian diet. You can be one of
the millions who are eating less meat and more vegetables. You may even want to drop
all flesh entirely. But it would be a mistake to try for pure vegetarianism. Only 3.7% of
Americans consider themselves to be vegetarians, and of those only a fraction of 1% are
purists. In the bodybuilding world of champions, that percentage is currently.... ZERO!"
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