Unicum or cheater? John Vinus became a vegan and pumped up his physique with a sculpted body

Chicken breast, eggs, lean beef – the most important part of the diet of most bodybuilders. However, the example of 28-year-old John Vinus shows that it is possible to achieve impressive muscles even with a complete refusal of animal food. The blogger has gained fame as the sexiest vegan in the world. The guy assures that he pumped up a beautiful body exclusively on plant food, and actively promotes his lifestyle to the masses. John, together with his wife, nutritionist Catherine, has developed an author’s training program, talks about the secrets of nutrition in social networks and even wrote a book. However, there are those who doubt the honesty of the vegan bodybuilder.

So who is John Venus really: a unique athlete who turned the idea of nutrition for jocks upside down, or a cunning fraudster?

How did the bodybuilder go from meat-eater to vegan?

Bodybuilder Vinus is a man of the world. His father, a Norwegian, met his mother while traveling in Brazil, and then the young people went to study in the United States, where John was born. The family moved often, so even as a child the boy had time to live in Norway, Brazil and the United States, and now settled in Barcelona.

Vinus recalls that he started watching his diet when he got into bodybuilding. Like most bodybuilders, the guy relied on chicken breast and eggs, and on weekends he couldn’t deny himself steaks at the family barbecue. John couldn’t imagine life without meat and even mocked his younger brother when he chose vegetarianism.

Everything changed in 2015. Then the 23-year-old, along with his girlfriend Catherine, stumbled upon a movie about meat technology.

I asked myself: do I want animals to be killed just so I can eat them? And the answer was no

Why was John Vinus suspected of cheating?

In five years, the bodybuilder has thousands of followers, and the audience of his blog in “Instagram” is already 227 thousand people. The main secret of his popularity is his personal example. People see a young healthy guy with a relief body and want the same. However, not everyone believes in the sincerity of the bodybuilder. Some of John’s colleagues are convinced that he pumped up muscles with the help of steroids, and not at all due to the refusal of meat, eggs and dairy products.

And the most powerful round of criticism in his address provoked the athlete himself. In December 2019, he published a video in which he said that a year ago he ate 12 eggs as an experiment. Vinus’s confession led to a massive backlash from his blogs. The guy was accused of fraud, because at the time of eating eggs he continued to promote the ideas of veganism and sell the author’s nutrition program.

Many users thought that in such a scandalous way John simply decided to attract attention to himself. Of course, the bodybuilder’s sensational admission of foul play undermined his credibility, but quickly the passions subsided, and the audience of his blog began to grow again.

Did John Venus really achieve impressive results in bodybuilding, being a vegan, or is it all a clever fiction to attract attention and make money? Only the athlete himself knows the answer, and we can only take his word for it. Or not.