Build Muscle on a Vegetarian Diet

Posted on March 31, 2010

There are generally 4-5 reasons available for someone to become a vegetarian:

  • Health reasons.
  • The contribution to world hunger.
  • Thought of eating animal carcass grosses them out.
  • The cruelty to animal’s issue.
  • The negative effects on the environment and the contribution to global warming.

    • But the question is how to build muscle on a vegetarian diet? And how does being a vegetarian affect your ability to build muscle? In fact a lot lesser than you would think or believe.

    Man was actually intended to be an herbivore and not a carnivore. We have body parts like teeth, jaws, digestive enzymes, stomach acidity, and small intestine length of herbivores. Generally, carnivores have a small intestine that is 3-6 times body length because meat rots very quickly and needs to pass through the body very quickly. But humans have a small intestine length of 10-11 times body length so the meat we eat still in our body for a longer period of time, contributing to untold number of diseases. And when you add all the chemicals and other unhealthy substances that our meat contains, you can see that eating meat may not be a good option for your health.

    Honesty, being a vegetarian will not affect your strength gains in any manner. To build muscle, you need a caloric surplus. As a vegetarian, you should have good fats like nuts, oils and avocadoes, stiff carbs like oatmeal, sweet potatoes, pasta and brown rice. For protein sources you need beans, legumes, quinoa, soy, hemp protein, nuts, etc. Although your protein will be lower than most meat eaters.

    You simply don’t need high protein diets to build muscle. The only thing in which you can have difficulty is adding muscle while maintaining body fat. It is almost impossible to get all the calories you need from veggies and fruits. If you are lean, you don’t have much problem. But if your insulin sensitivity is lower and you are fatter, you may get in to trouble staying lean by eating all those starchy carbs because this may slow down your size gains.

    To deal with this problem, carb cycling is the way a normal meat eater can do it. In that process you should have super high carbs on training days and limit your starchy carbs on non training days. Eat only vegetables as your carbs and nuts, beans, fish and eggs as your protein one day per week.

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