Top Fighters Are Going Vegan

[andhravodu]

Many MMA fighters are increasingly promoting the benefits of vegetarianism in life and inside the cage.

With some fighters, the typical high protein diet of chicken, fish, lean meats and smart carbs isn’t the best way to build muscle, cut fat and compete in the cage. Among MMA’s most high profile vegetarian fighters include: Jake Shields, Nick Diaz, Nate Diaz, Jon Fitch and Mac Danzig. Herschel Walker, NFL great  who toyed with MMA, is also a vegetarian.

 

Here’s what Shields, who was raised a vegetarian, told Yahoo! sports about a vegetarian lifestyle:

 

“I’ve been this way all my life. I’ve got nothing to compare it to. The only thing is, nobody can train as hard or as long as me and Nick Diaz, so that seems to indicate something.”

 

Shields was the inspiration for Diaz, and his little brother Nate, to become a vegetarian.

 

“I can eat as much as I want and still lose weight,” Nate Diaz said. “Pretty much year round I try to eat raw foods. I have been vegan since I was 18 years old.”

 

Diaz tries to eat organic foods also. “I try to keep my diet all organic. It’s healthier. You recover faster.”

 

Vegetarian fighters say that the diet helps them recover faster, gives them more energy and helps them to feel better overall inside the cage. The idea of meat, often filled with hormones, pesticides, and other harmful toxins,decomposing in their bodies, is something they want to resist.

 

For fighters who forgo meat, however, they look to other sources of protein, such as nuts, tofu and beans.

 

Here are some good sources of protein, according to vegetarianfighter.com

• Legumes such as beans, peas and lentils
• Nuts and seeds
• Soy products including soy beverages, tempeh and tofu
• Whole (cereal) grains.
• Quinoa Rice
• Spirulina

Mac Danzig, who competes tonight at the UFC on FOX 9 show told UFC.com that the idea that one needs to eat a lot of meet to fulfill protein requirements is blown is incorrect.

 

“The truth of the matter is that protein requirements are blown all out of proportion,” Danzig told UFC.com .”We are led to believe that we need huge of amounts of protein for physical activity. People have been saying that for so long. The fact of the matter is, even if I did eat meat I wouldn’t be so focused on my protein intake. . . You don’t need one gram of protein per pound of body weight. You don’t need that at all. If you are regularly active and at a good weight, if you get more than 80 grams of protein a day then you are fine. The body can’t even process more than that, your liver can’t process more than that. If you give your body too much protein then it’s either going to turn it into energy or to fat. And your liver has to do all that.”

 

[mustang302]

nice..na lanti NV batch ki kastha miguluthadi..

[Buttertheif]

[andhravodu]

nice..na lanti NV batch ki kastha miguluthadi..

 

chicken ni kooda NV kinda vestunnara ee days lo

[mustang302]

chicken ni kooda NV kinda vestunnara ee days lo

white meat and red meat  also man..

[micxas]

[KillChillPandey]

[Enjoy99]

Vegan kaadhunkani I tried being a vegetarian for 1 and half years successfully .. PETA valla animal cruelty messages chusaka ..

One Indian trip changed everything :giggle:

[kiladi bullodu]

Biscuit I do not beleive

[andhravodu]

Biscuit I do not beleive

 

 

Naysayers notwithstanding, more and more mixed martial arts competitors are either following the Diaz clan’s example or speaking out about a lifetime of animal-free consumption. UFC featherweight fighter Alex Caceres, who defeated Masio Fullen this past January via unanimous decision, converted to veganism within the last couple of years. Retired UFC combatant and former Ultimate Fighter welterweight winner James “Lightning” Wilks has long advocated plant-based eating. High-profile UFC signee CM Punk is a longtime vegan who also swears off any booze or intoxicants. Ex-Super Fight League Women’s Bantamweight Champion Colleen Schneider’s stuck largely to fruit and veggies for nearly 30 years. And then there’s Mac Danzig, generally cited as the first vegan pro MMA star, who made the switch about halfway through his career in the mid-2000s and was prominently featured in the 2011 documentary Forks Over Knives.

[andhravodu]

Vegan kaadhunkani I tried being a vegetarian for 1 and half years successfully .. PETA valla animal cruelty messages chusaka ..

One Indian trip changed everything @3$%

 

chicken, mutton full ga ichinattu unnaru neeku

[kiladi bullodu]

Naysayers notwithstanding, more and more mixed martial arts competitors are either following the Diaz clan’s example or speaking out about a lifetime of animal-free consumption. UFC featherweight fighter Alex Caceres, who defeated Masio Fullen this past January via unanimous decision, converted to veganism within the last couple of years. Retired UFC combatant and former Ultimate Fighter welterweight winner James “Lightning” Wilks has long advocated plant-based eating. High-profile UFC signee CM Punk is a longtime vegan who also swears off any booze or intoxicants. Ex-Super Fight League Women’s Bantamweight Champion Colleen Schneider’s stuck largely to fruit and veggies for nearly 30 years. And then there’s Mac Danzig, generally cited as the first vegan pro MMA star, who made the switch about halfway through his career in the mid-2000s and was prominently featured in the 2011 documentary Forks Over Knives.

 

bongu ley veelu edo under weight ufc champs la unnaru 

pedda bodies yemi kaavu 

[Enjoy99]

chicken, mutton full ga ichinattu unnaru neeku

Indians non vegitarians feel its their right to kill animals to eat ..
They should introduce giving a stunt to animal at the time of killing atleast..to kill it more humanely

[andhravodu]

bongu ley veelu edo under weight ufc champs la unnaru 

pedda bodies yemi kaavu 

 

point noted, but they're still way faster than bodybuilders. probably stronger also

 

Herschel walker NFL lo star player. he still does 1500 pushups a day

[andhravodu]

Indians non vegitarians feel its their right to kill animals to eat ..
They should introduce giving a stunt to animal at the time of killing atleast..to kill it more humanely

 

stunt anedi doubt ye. but halal principle ade gaa, takkuva noppi to thvaraga champestam ani