How You Can Bulk Up Your Body, Without Even Consuming Meat!

Are you a vegetarian and facing issues with building muscles? Here is how you can bulk up your body, without even consuming meat!

- Akanksha Arora

These days everybody wants to stay fit. Whether you are a working professional or a student, we are all targeting fit bodies, and our diet is a very important aspect of it. Those eating chicken or eggs find it easier to gain muscles because they have more options available for them to eat. From meat to eggs to fish and so on and so forth. They can have it all. But for the vegetarians, we believe that it becomes difficult to get a protein-rich diet, which can help them gain muscles in accordance with their dietary preference. But it is not the case at all times. There are quite a few possible ways on how vegetarians can enter the bulking zone without having to eat eggs and chicken. Here is what the co-founder and fitness and Nutritional Scientist at Food Darzee, Dr Siddhant Bhargava has to say on how and why it is not so difficult for anybody who wishes to bulk up, including vegetarians. “To be honest, while bulking up, one usually takes in all macronutrients, fat, carbohydrates and protein. Of course, protein is to be kept very high. Now, the problem with vegetarian protein sources is two. First being they’re not complete with all the essential amino acids, and secondly, they’re not lean. They will be accompanied with either fat or carbs. Now in the bulking phase, this doesn’t matter much. So, it is not that difficult for a vegetarian to bulk up,” says the expert. Explaining on what does bulking up mean and how is it important in the bodybuilding aspect, he says, “the bulking phase represents the time period where the bodybuilder tries to put on as much mass as possible. In the bulking phase, bodybuilders eat 50 per cent more than their usual food intake to pack on size. There is an increment in both, muscle and fat mass. As per some theories, a phase overlo