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Climbers and Diet - Any Vegetarians out there? 3-May-2004 At 5:58:19 PM Ben

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wow - I apologise in advance I didn't intend this question to start sliding towards the traditional vego / vegan / carnivour arguments. I was just interested in hearing from vego climbers who have identified areas of their diet that they have to be careful of given the strains and stresses climbing puts on your body.

Nice to hear there are some really strong vegitarian climbers out there. I'll note I've been vegetarian since I was 7 years old (approaching 30 now) or so, so my bodies definately adopted to it, and I have no trouble with normal energy levels, or physical exercise.

I'll be trialing small (5 grams every few days) additional amounts of creatine for the next few weeks to see if it helps my body recover better from climbing now that I'm climbing 3 days a week or so.

I note that there are some interesting pages on vegitarian diets for athletes:

http://www.andrews.edu/NUFS/vegathletes.htm