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PLANTSTRONG Podcast

Ep. 54: Nimai Delgado - Building Muscle Without Meat

PLANTSTRONG Podcast

Rip Esselstyn

Nutrition, Medicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We say it all the time here at Plant-Strong - “Real Men Eat Plants.” With the smashing success of The Game Changers documentary, we proved, through science, that it is optimal to build muscle on a plant-based diet. If you still have to see it to believe it, then you’ll want to feast your eyes and ears on today’s guest.

Nimai Delgado is a professional bodybuilder who has never eaten meat his entire life. That’s right, Nimai was raised vegetarian since birth and, in 2015, even while in peak training for bodybuilding competitions, went all in and became 100% plant-based. You know what? He’s been out-muscling his competition ever since.

What started as Nimai’s personal mission to stay fit and healthy, has quickly turned into a career and a powerful myth-busting fitness and nutrition platform of spreading the benefits and possibilities of a plant-based lifestyle.

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Nimai Delgado Resources:

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VeganFitness.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Plant Strong Podcast. I'm your host, Rip Eselston. We took a

0:10.1

little breather last week because we were still recovering and reeling from the

0:16.1

overwhelming success of our first ever virtual plant stock weekend with over

0:23.6

a thousand people tuning in and committing to improving their health and the

0:30.4

health of their families. We truly couldn't be more thrilled with how the weekend

0:36.3

went and behalf of my entire family. Thank you and I think you'll all agree

0:44.0

even though we couldn't be together in person this year our global community

0:49.2

felt stronger and more connected than ever. Now I've said it before and I'll keep saying it,

0:58.5

real men eat plants. If you recall I said that when I was climbing the fire pole with just my

1:08.0

with just my arms with my legs in a in a L shape in Forks Over Nives and with the smashing success

1:20.8

of the game changers documentary we've proved that it is possible actually you know what no make

1:28.0

that optimal to build muscle on a plant based diet. If you still have to see it to believe it then

1:36.0

you'll want to feast your eyes and ears on today's guest. It is none other than Nemi Delgado

1:44.2

professional bodybuilder who get this has never eaten meat his entire life. That's right Nemi

1:53.8

was raised vegetarian since birth and in 2015 while in peak training for bodybuilding competitions

2:02.7

went all in and became a hundred percent plant strong and guess what he's been out muscling his

2:10.1

competition ever since. What started as Nemi's personal mission to stay fit and healthy has quickly

2:19.8

morphed into a career and a powerful myth busting fitness and nutrition platform of spreading the

2:27.2

benefits and possibilities of a plant based lifestyle. I hope you enjoyed this conversation

2:34.8

with a true game changer and hero Nemi Delgado. With the end of summer drawing near it's natural

2:46.1

to head back into the kitchen and to seek comfort foods that remind us of fall and the hopeful

2:53.9

return to schedules and routines. We love hearing all the great feedback from folks who use our

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