Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness Newsletter February 11th, 2009

Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness Newsletter February 11, 2009

In this newsletter:

1. Vegan Bodybuilders poised to make history with April 25, 2009 competition

2. How are your New Year’s Resolutions coming along?

3. Big VEGA sale coming up for Food Fight Vegan Grocery

4. Get your Sun Warrior Rice Protein and support Vegan Bodybuilders!

5. Final stock of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness clothing (for a while)

6. Do you keep a training or food journal on the forum?

7. Did you subscribe to VegNews Magazine yet? Did you know you get $100 of vegan stuff for doing so?

8. Extras


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1. Vegan Bodybuilders poised to make history with April 25, 2009 competition

VeganBodybuilding.com members Robert Cheeke, Giacomo Marchese, and Jimi Sitko are competing on April 25, 2009 in Phoenix, AZ at the 2009 INBF Best of the West Bodybuilding Championships – Pro Qualifier. We wish we weren’t making history but it seems that we probably are. For the first time we’ll have 3 (or more) Vegan Bodybuilders in the same competition, on the same stage, in the same weight class, at the same time. We wish this would have happened a long time ago, and perhaps it has, but as far as we know, we’re going in there to make some sort of statement for vegans in athletics and to make history for veganism. For information about the competition, please visit this link: http://www.donrobinsonproductions.com/inbf.html

If you are in the Phoenix, AZ area or live near by, we’d love to have your support in attendance! Or even if you live far away but want to be part of this historic event and watch it live, we’d love to have you there! Bodybuilding is a tough and demanding and expensive sport. On top of normal costs, we’re all flying to Phoenix to take place in this historic contest, staying together in a hotel and will be doing photo shoots, media interviews, etc. while we’re out there promoting our cause. With the added expenses, we have been welcoming and receiving donations from various www.veganbodybuilding.com website members and friends. If you find this website valuable, please consider making a donation assisting three great representatives of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness in the upcoming competition. To make donations, send them to: robert@veganbodybuilder.com via paypal (note the er ending) or mail any donations to:

Robert Cheeke
6103 NE 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97211

Anyone can make a donation, you don’t have to be in Arizona, but a simple paypal payment goes a very long way and all payments sent to me (Robert Cheeke) will be spread evenly among the three of us committed to this competition. I am handling the expenses for all of us including flights, hotel, etc. so sending it directly to me is the most efficient way to facilitate this. It’s going to be awesome and we’re really pleased to have your support!

There are many other ways to support our efforts and get something in return…you can purchase a Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness clothing item, a Vegan Fitness Built Naturally DVD, or purchase Vega or Sun Warrior (two of our sponsors) products through our forum.

Thank you in advance for your support!

All donors will be acknowledged and thanked.

Check out the Blogs/Training Journals section for our latest journals and photo and video updates.


2. How are your New Year’s Resolutions coming along?

Did you make New Year’s Resolutions? Did they have anything to do with veganism, bodybuilding, or fitness? How are you progressing? What do you think is holding you back from achieving what you know you can achieve? How can this website and this website community support your goals and visions for this year and for your future? What means the most to you and what are you willing to do to make it happen? Is your ultimate vision more meaningful than the other things that are occupying most of your time? How can you prioritize your life to bring it into more of a supportive balance for your most meaningful and rewarding visions? Think about these questions and take action to make great things happen for your life. All the best with the rest of 2009!



3. Big VEGA Sale coming up with Food Fight Vegan Grocery

Just like we did with Vegan Essentials (and will do with Vegan Essentials again months down the road) we’re going to be having a Big VEGA sale with Food Fight in early-mid March, 2009. There are many, many website members who use VEGA www.myvega.com and I wanted to give you a heads up about a month in advance. The sale will likely be something like 15%-20% off all products with special savings on very large orders. Thanks again for supporting the Vegan online stores that we work directly with. www.foodfightgrocery.com is where you can learn more about that All Vegan Store located in Portland, OR.

Details with this promo will be available in a few weeks on the Vegan Bodybuilding Forum: www.veganbodybuilding.com/phpBB2



4. Get your Sun Warrior rice protein and support Vegan Bodybuilders!

This is a great time to get Sun Warrior rice protein, and get a FREE Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness t-shirt out of it! Sun Warrior http://www.sunwarrior.com/protein-raw-v ... tural.html is being offered at a great deal with a FREE T-shirt by Vegan Bodybuilder Giacomo Marchese. Lean and Green is his name on the forum and you can read about the offer here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=16610

Part of the proceeds that come in from the sales of Sun Warrior go directly toward supporting the Bodybuilding competition that Giacomo Marchese, Jimi Sitko, and Robert Cheeke will be competing in on April 25, 2009 in Phoenix, AZ. Thank you in advance for supporting Sun Warrior, and Vegan Bodybuilders!



5. Final stock of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness clothing (for a while)

The final orders for Vegan Bodybuilding clothing have been made (for a while). I will be posting exactly which items I have in what sizes and in what quantity within the next couple of days (this has already been done for my limited supply of women’s items posted in the classifieds section.) This will be in a new thread on the Vegan Bodybuilding Forum. Due to financial limitations to order more clothing, I am holding off ordering New VB&F clothing items for a number of months until I get more capital to do so. If you’re interested in Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness clothing, including shirts, shorts, yoga pants, tank top, hats, headbands, hooded shirts, etc. please check the website forum to find out what is available before it’s gone. Many photos have been taken, modeling the clothing, and photos will be posted before many of you will even read this e-mail.

Thank you again for your support over the years with our clothing line. We have moved a lot of items to people in more than 20 countries and I recently ordered a little more than I needed to, hence my inability to afford to order anymore at the moment, until I move more items in stock. Please consider picking up an item, especially if you find this community valuable and worthwhile. Thanks so much!



6. Do you keep a training or food journal on the forum?

Are you currently keeping a training or food journal on the forum? The training journals are more popular than ever and it is a great way to get feedback, give feedback, show progress and get questions answered. Not to mention, a great outlet for finding motivation and inspiration and providing motivation and inspiration for others.

To visit the Training Journals section, please visit:

viewforum.php?f=24

You can blog there too! Start a journal today!



7. Did you subscribe to VegNews Magazine yet? Did you know you get $100 of vegan stuff for doing so?

Are you a subscriber to VegNews Magazine? Why not? Did you know you can sign up for as little as $20 and get a FREE tote bag, FREE t-shirt, FREE DVD, FREE vegan supplements, and other FREE items? You also get a year’s worth of the magazine that features me (Robert Cheeke) often and supports Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness well. It is also a very good, very cool, award-winning magazine with awesome publishers who do a great deal of work for animals.

Please read about this exclusive offer here:

http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/?page= ... news_offer

We work hard to provide our members with many benefits…this is an example of one benefit of being a member of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness

Exclusive VegNews Magazine
Subscription Opportunity for members
of VeganBodybuilding.com
A joint offering from the Publishers of VegNews Magazine and the President of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness:

A FREE VegNews Magazine Tote Bag, a FREE Vegan Fitness Built Naturally DVD, a FREE Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness t-shirt (white shirt with logo in blue text), and FREE Vega samples will be given with a $20 one-year subscription to VegNews Magazine (US). Additional items will be included with any 2 or 3-year subscription. Subscriptions for Canada are $30 a year and elsewhere in the World are $40 per year.
Here are the rates for multiple years:

U.S.: $20 (one year); $36 (two), $50 (three)
Canada: $40 (one year); $76 (two), $110 (three)
All Others: $50 (one year); $96 (two), $140 (three)

The increased expense for international subscribers is simply because of shipping costs to send abroad.

This is open to all members of www.veganbodybuilding.com regardless of your location throughout the world. Review the prices to see what your rate will be.

The details:

Why: VegNews Magazine and Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness have worked closely in the past and this is a program aimed to reward the joint support for one another while supporting both of our communities at the same time.

What: This $100+ value (for as low as $20) is an exclusive offer to members of www.veganbodybuilding.com only. VegNews Magazine has been a huge supporter of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness over the years and members of www.veganbodybuilding.com have been very supportive of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness over the years too. This joint effort is aimed to benefit everyone involved; the members of www.veganbodybuilding.com , VegNews Magazine, and Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness.

When: This offer begins immediately as of October 7, 2008 (still going on in 2009)

How: To take advantage of this opportunity, mail a check for the appropriate amount made out to VegNews Magazine to the following address:

Robert Cheeke
6103 NE 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97211

Please provide an e-mail address as well for contact purposes.

Robert Cheeke will collect payments and send them to VegNews Magazine. Once processed, Robert will ship out the exclusive offer items in a package mailed to the subscriber's address. Please provide a current mailing address that you would like to have the magazine and the bonus products mailed to.

VegNews is an award-winning magazine dedicated to the vegan lifestyle, promoting all aspects from entertainment, travel, activism, music and culture. A new issue comes out every 2 months. It is a great resource to show your non-vegan friends how easy, fun and practical the vegan lifestyle can be.

If you have questions at anytime, please contact Robert Cheeke at robert@veganbodybuilding.com . For more information about VegNews Magazine please visit www.vegnews.com .

Thank you for supporting Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness. This is just one of the many ways we get to say thank you and give something back to you, in the form of this exclusive offer that I personally created and arranged with VegNews Magazine.

All the best,


Robert Cheeke
President
Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness
www.veganbodybuilding.com


8. Extras

Keep an eye out for the next issue (March/April) of VegNews Magazine. There is a special feature on me (Robert Cheeke.) I haven’t seen it yet, but I think it will be very worthwhile for you to read it.

Find ways to promote veganism in your community to reduce animal suffering and to reduce animal cruelty. In your own way, reach out to those around you.

Tell a friend to join our website forum. We love building community and we thrive together.

Create new visions for yourself and work hard to see them through. Do something that is selfless and has deep meaning in your life. You’ll find it to be very rewarding.

Have an outstanding month of February! See you back here in March!

A special thanks to the following forum members for their recent support of our website and our upcoming bodybuilding competition:

Vegan Essentials
Jason
Vegan Joe
stoutnanny
acesfull

An additional thanks is extended to everyone supporting Sun Warrior, VEGA, and Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness.

“If you’re not driven by something that moves you, you’re simply a passenger on the ride of life.” - Robert Cheeke

Thanks again for reading. I only send these out about once a month and I appreciate all of you for being part of our Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness community. If you have suggestions for the newsletter or would like to contribute with an article or column, please let me know.

From all of us at Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness, thank you.

-Robert Cheeke
President
Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness