Can a vegetarian diet work for increasing muscle mass?
Yes it is possible and no you don’t have to combine your proteins. Your body will do that for you. Increasing muscle mass, besides having the right strength routine, will involve eating a ton more food period. There are plenty of vegan and vegetarian sources of protein as well as bodybuilders and other athletes who are vegan or vegetarian. Stores like The Vitamin Shoppe and health food stores are pretty good about keeping protein supplements in stock that have no whey or casein. Once you start looking, you will find that there are more options than you can possibly imagine.
In the ACE training manual, this is discussed. Complete protiens are the main drawback for those who exercise and are vegetarian.
Mainly, we want to focus on ingesting foods that provide a complete amino acid matrix for the production of protiens.
Supplements are fine but whole foods can provide a more solid nutrional base for vitamins, minerals and various other nutrients.
This leads us to looking at combinations of foods.
1. Dairy and (whole) grains
2. (Whole) Grains and nuts/seeds
3. Nuts/seeds and legumes
4. Legumes and dairy
5. Legumes and grains
http://www.3fatchicks.com/what-are-complete-protein-combinations/
This is a pretty good article. Do some research on the subjuct and see
what works for you.
Harold Rose
Ab-Sutra Health and Fitness Coaches
Be Healthy, Be Ageless, Be You
www.absutrafitness.com
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Increasing muscle mass is very possible through a vegetarian diet. However, it is far more difficult to obtain muscle mass as opposed to eating meats. The complexity lies within creating complete proteins which entails eating a variety of different incomplete proteins to create allow for obtain all essential amino acids.
Ultimately for performance – there have been studies that show it is far difficult to keep up with a meat eater.
Fuel the Movement,
JM