KNP70 - Building Muscle While Living a Plant Based Life - With Plant Based Chad

The Next Level Health & Fitness Podcast (Formerly The Key Nutrition Podcast)

Brad Jensen

Health & Fitness, Weightloss, Motivation, Mindset, Food, Nutritionadvice, Fitness, Muscle, Gym, Nutrition, Musclebuilding, Mealprep, Keynutrition

4.9 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode was with my good friend, Chad Neilson, also know as Plant Based Chad! I wanted to get Chad on to talk about being a competitive athlete while being plant based. Chad also is NOT a coach, so he has no monetization to gain from this. I am clearly not a plant based guy, and I did not feel judged for being a meat eater. Just like I didn’t judge Chad for being plant based. It was a very respectful and intellectual conversation that I know you all will get a ton of value from!

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Topics we covered in the podcast:

Why he calls myself plant based instead of vegan
Favorite plant based protein and restaurants
Ditching any dogma about being plant based
His “agenda” and bias and cognitive dissonance
His journey of Plant Based eating
A few things from the movie Game Changers which really stood out to him
And lastly, He Answered the age old questions “What do you actually eat?” and “How do you get enough protein?”

Favorite Plant Based Protein

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Top 12 Vegan Meals in the Salt Lake Valley

100% Plant Based Restaurants

Buds – sandwich shop downtown (100% Plant Based Restaurant). Get the buffalo chicken or pizza steak. Or better yet, both. Don’t let anyone talk you into Barbacoa.
Boltcutter – mexican restaurant downtown. The nachos are everyone’s favorite, I am also a huge fan of the sin carne asada burrito and the quesadillas.
Vegan Bowl – west side. Haven’t been there but 100% positive review from everyone I have ever talked to.
Zest Kitchen and Bar – 100% plant based and gluten free. Not my favorite, but if you want something almost pretentiously healthy it is very popular.

Vegan Meals at Omni Restaurants

The Pie – the Vegan Chicken Bacon Ranch is to die for.
Jinya Ramen – Creamy Vegan Ramen is sooooo good.
Dog Haus – The Beyond Brat there is phenomenal, they also have impossible sliders.
Mi Ranchito – around 3300 south and state – Has an entire vegan buffet every Friday night, as well as a smaller vegan menu throughout the week.
Chabaar – Thai restaurant in Midvale – Almost any curry there can be made vegan.

Vegan Fast Food

Burger King – Impossible Whopper. I have an embarrassing amount of these.
Del Taco – Beyond Beef Tacos/Burritos. They are alright, I can’t wait until Taco Time rolls theirs out though.
Apollo Burger – Impossible Burger.

Connect with us on Instagram

Host Brad Jensen – @thesoberbodybuilder

Co-Host Michelle Raines – @mykeylife

Guest Chad Neilson – @plantbasedchad

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another edition in the key nutrition podcast. Today's episode was with my good friend
0:05.5	plant-based Chad. Now listen, Chad is not an Instagram influencer. Chad is not even a nutrition
0:11.3	coach. Chad is just a dude who loves to eat plants. He's passionate about it, but what I love
0:17.5	about Chad and why I want him on the podcast was he has no, he's not monetizing
0:22.7	off being plant based. He also doesn't think I'm a bad person for eating meat, nor do I think he
0:27.5	is for eating plants. His whole motto is just, I don't judge you for eating meat. Don't judge me
0:31.4	for eating plants, right? And so, um, I love his non-dogmatic view. He doesn't like to, you know, try to shame anybody.
0:40.6	He just states some benefits.
0:42.3	Things we talked about in this episode were why he calls himself plant-based instead
0:47.2	of vegan and also his journey into plant-based eating.
0:51.0	We also talked about a movie that he is super passionate about called Game Changers.
0:56.1	And that in and of itself was very fascinating because a lot of the episode went in that direction,
1:02.3	which was this movie is about these high-level athletes, people complete in triathlons and Ironmans
1:08.3	and, you know, competitive powerlifting and competitive bodybuilding
1:13.0	that are all plant-based. And so kind of killing the notion that to eat plants, you have to
1:18.0	only do yoga and you have to have no muscle. And so he, he's really passionate about that because
1:23.8	Chad is in good shape. Chad got super lean during his program at key nutrition,
1:27.7	but he also put on some good muscle. So his message is, if you are plant-based, you can, too,
1:33.3	have this aesthetic results. Does it take more work? Sure. Does it take more creativity? Sure.
1:38.3	But we went through a whole day of his eating, you know, the age old questions of, what do you actually eat and how do you get
1:46.0	enough protein? He broke it down, meal by meal, and showed us how he gets over 200 grams of
1:51.8	protein in daily from eating zero dairy and zero meat. Fascinating episode. I know you guys are
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