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Stronger Faster Younger Plant-strong training for the next 40 years. He is also an A.C.E. Certified Personal Trainer, is certified in Plant-Based Nutrition through the T.

Free Youthspan Snapshot (5 min): https://sfy-coach.vercel.app/snapshot — then join our free Skool for Q&A, workouts, and check-ins: https://www.skool.com/stronger-faster-younger-7194 Derek Tresize and Marcella Torres are the husband and wife team of competitive bodybuilders behind Vegan Muscle and Fitness at, where they have shared their training and nutrition tips, recipes and more since 2009. Owners of Richmond, Virginia’s only plant-based personal training studio, Root Force Personal Training, the pair seeks to promote a fit and active plant-powered lifestyle and shatter the perception that strength and athleticism can’t be achieved with a plant-based diet. Derek is a three-time natural bodybuilding champion and pro bodybuilder with the World Natural Bodybuilding Federation. Colin Campbell Foundation and Cornell University, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Marcella, formerly a professional mathematician, is now a competitive bodybuilder, professional meal planner, and professional dancer. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Physics. Together they work with clients both internationally and locally helping everyone from new vegans to seasoned competitors build muscle and get lean with a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Their mission: to generate as many fit vegan role models as possible to get the message across that a plant-based diet isn’t a handicap in the world of athletics – it’s an advantage! Derek and Marcella have been featured in many online and print publications such as Vegan Health and Fitness magazine, Naked magazine, Vegan Lifestyle magazine, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Style Weekly, One Green Planet, The Daily Beet, Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness, the IDEA Fitness Journal, Bodybuilding.com, Break-ingMuscle.com, the television show “What Would Julieanna Do?”, and online radio programs such as The Big Inside on FTNS Radio. Both have been official sponsored athletes of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness and members of Team Plantbuilt, representing vegan athletes annually at the Naturally Fit Supershow in Austin, Texas. To learn more about Derek and Marcella visit their website www.veganmuscleandfitness.com, or connect on twitter .

10/11/2026

Grownups need recess too 😅

10/09/2026

Muscle power fades five times faster than strength, and most of us stopped doing anything explosive around age fourteen. The good news: a little work brings a lot of it back.

Derek explains why power leads every workout session 👇

Curious about how we integrate healthspan maxxing into workouts? Check out our bio 😃

10/06/2026

Can you stand on one leg for 10 seconds? 🦩

Your balance is a longevity marker. Not a metaphor, a measurement.

Four weeks of one arm, one leg, wobbly surfaces. Then you go back to a stable bench press and it feels easy. That's balance training at work.

Balance is one block of our 22-week training cycle. Each block targets a different longevity marker, so the program keeps moving your numbers in the right direction.

Derek breaks down why it works and what changes on the other side 👇

Link in bio to take the snapshot and see where you stand.

Here's the week of vegan school lunches we talked about at RVA VegFest 🌱Thank you to everyone who came to the parenting ...
09/27/2026

Here's the week of vegan school lunches we talked about at RVA VegFest 🌱

Thank you to everyone who came to the parenting panel yesterday 😊 Nut-free, for kids from pre-K to high school in our house, and great for grownups who like a bento box too 🍱 One Sunday prep session and a few minutes each night.

The full planner has the grocery list sorted by aisle, tips by age, and brand picks for nut-free schools.

Link #4 in bio.

plantbasedlunch

Wake up stiff? This is the mobility routine I run with every client, every session. 15 moves, head to toe, about 5 minut...
09/24/2026

Wake up stiff? This is the mobility routine I run with every client, every session. 15 moves, head to toe, about 5 minutes. Do it daily and it covers 90-plus percent of what your joints need. No pain, just 6 to 8 of each. 💪

Comment MOBILITY and I'll send you the free interactive checklist. ✅

09/22/2026

Something hurts, so you skip the session. That's how a month disappears. 😅

Shoulder's sore, you're short on time, or you're stuck in a hotel gym with two dumbbells and a bench. Just say so, and the session changes. Same session, same week, nothing lost.

When your shoulders are fine, you go right back to what you were doing, like you never missed a beat. 💪

The point isn't to crush yourself. It's to train in a way you can show up again tomorrow.

Start with where you actually are. Free Youthspan Snapshot, five tests, about ten minutes.

Link in bio. 👆

09/21/2026

Good thing we have our own gym. I mean, for everyone else's sake. 😅

Today's workout window: the 40 minutes between a kid's birthday party and a nutcracker audition 🎈🧑🏽‍🩰

Live Q&A with Derek this Sunday, Sep 20 · noon ET in Stronger. Faster. Younger. on Skool ☑️🥗💪🏽Bring a question, or just ...
09/17/2026

Live Q&A with Derek this Sunday, Sep 20 · noon ET in Stronger. Faster. Younger. on Skool ☑️🥗💪🏽

Bring a question, or just drop in. Starting later than you wanted, training around a cranky joint, getting stronger without wrecking yourself - all are fair game. If you can’t make it, leave it in the comments and he’ll try to hit it and post in a clip!

Link in bio / Skool:

https://www.skool.com/stronger-faster-younger-7194

09/17/2026

Adherence is the hard part.

The plan usually isn’t what fails. Life gets busy, the shoulder complains, the week shrinks - and the month disappears.

Being able to jump in and do what you CAN today, when the perfect session doesn’t survive, is the whole game.

That's why our SFY program has an efficient tier, not just an optimal one 😅 and that's why it has a built-in spotter to adjust every day of the workout.

Start with where you actually are. Free Youthspan Snapshot, five tests, takes five to ten minutes. Link in comments

09/16/2026

Safe strength training, no equipment needed 💪🏽

Find a stable wall. Hold as long as you can and build from there: timing yourself gives you a benchmark to track.

Strength is one of the five capacities we focus on that tend to slide with age, and you can train it without a gym 🙂

Curious about YOUR Youthspan benchmark?
Free Youthspan Snapshot test:

Https://sfy-coach.vercel.app/snapshot

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