Yeah plant based protein is not a no no as well. However it is about digestibility issues. Any herbivore animal has at least 2 chambers of stomach for all that rubbish to pass through and be prepared etc. especially fibre we humans have only 1 chamber. Meanwhile You eat a rabbit meat now, after a few hours it's already repairing your muscles and building them. Broccoli will have to wait until to tomorrow to action the same :sdo: meanwhile you're dying with doms after hard chest day at the gym :sdo:
As for cardio it burns more calories than my lifting I agree. However cardio kills your muscles along the way since instead of activating "fast twitching" muscles like on cats, it activates the "long twitching" endurance muscles. 2ndly, after 3 hours of cardio BOOM it's work is done :sdo: body returns to resting mode. In lifting weights and power sprinting your calorie burning remains freaking 18 hours after gym. You sweat after hours because of metabolic increase :sdo:
Sprinter(body building HIIT) vs Marathon runner(cardio)
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But both sprinting and jogging are forms of cardio? I only ever said cardio helps with weight loss, making no distinction between sprinting, jogging, running, etc. And it's true that cardio can cause muscle loss, but only in extreme situations where a person is running for extended periods of time, e.i. marathon runners, and joggers. A simple google search can tell you that. A 1 to 2 hour walk, run, or jog can assist with building muscle. Of course you're doing all this cardio along side body building; lifting weights, which I'm certain joggers and sprinters don't do.
With the right balance of cardio, weight lifting and a plant based diet, you can achieve a body like vegan body builder
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, who I personally look up to in terms of making gains. You can be vegan and still be on the bulkier side of body building and weight lifting. During the Olympics, the only male US weight lifting competitior was a vegan,
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Kendrick Yahcob Farris at the 2016 weighting lifting Olympics
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There are a lot of misconceptions and sterotypes surrounding running and veganism, but they're constantly disproven with research and science.