Resources — Reading, Press & Notes
The thinking
behind the work.
Press coverage, credentials, training notes, and the answers Tally Body clients ask for most — collected in one place so you can read the reasoning before you commit to a plan.
In the Press
Tally Body in the Chicago Reader.
The Reader went looking for the people quietly proving that a plant-based plate and a competition physique are not a contradiction. Angelique is one of them.
“Plant-based bodybuilders—we’re out here”
The Chicago Reader on the city’s plant-based lifting scene — and on building a competition physique without a plate of chicken and rice in sight.
Angelique is featured in the Reader’s look at Chicago athletes putting on real size on plants alone. It covers the part most people get wrong: not whether it can be done, but how the protein, the volume and the timing actually get handled across a building phase and a cut.
If you have been told a vegan diet and a stage-ready physique don’t go together, this is the piece to read first. It is the same approach behind every plant-based plan written at Tally Body.
By Micco Caporale Published by the Chicago Reader, July 24, 2024 · Photograph by Oriana Koren for the Chicago Reader · Reproduced here by summary and link
Nobody has to defend what is on their plate. The plan either builds the physique or it doesn’t.
Tally Body — On Plant-Based TrainingThe Library
Everything worth keeping, in one place.
Press features, credentials, training notes, and the long answers to the questions that come up in every consultation. No listicles, no fear-based nutrition, nothing written to sell you something you don’t need.
“Plant-based bodybuilders—we’re out here”
The Reader on Chicago’s plant-based lifting scene, and on building a competition physique on plants alone.
Read at chicagoreader.com
Corrective Exercise Specialist
The National Academy of Sports Medicine credential behind the movement screen every Tally Body client starts with — finding what is tight, what is not firing, and programming around it instead of through it.
About NASM
2025 — NPC Celsius Chicago Extravaganza / IFBB Chicago Pro
The fourteenth running of the show, at The Westin O’Hare. Pro and amateur divisions across two days — the weekend Chicago’s off-season work gets judged.
See the show at timgardnerproductions.com
2024 — NPC Tim Gardner Chicago Extravaganza / IFBB Chicago Pro
Two days of IFBB Pro League competition with the NPC amateur show alongside it. The NPC stage is where a spring of training stops being theory.
See the contest at npcnewsonline.com
Press images: the Chicago Reader’s article page · Photographs by Oriana Koren for the Chicago Reader
Partner — Chicago Meal Prep
The hardest part of nutrition is having the food already made.
Almost nobody comes off the rails because they don’t know what to eat. They come off the rails on a Tuesday at nine at night, with nothing prepped and no willpower left to cook.
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Straight answer on the food: it is meat, steak and vegetables. It is not a plant-based menu. Angelique’s own plate is, and most of the people she coaches aren’t — so if you eat meat and your real problem is that nothing is ever ready, this is the one worth trying.
Order by Friday noon for Monday delivery, or by Tuesday morning for Thursday.
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Topics
What you’ll find here.
Three subjects, chosen because they are the three that decide whether a plan works. Everything published here falls under one of them.
Training
Why the program says what it says.
Programming, progression, form, and what to do with a week that fell apart. Written so you understand the reasoning, not just the sets and reps.
Personal Training
02Nutrition
Including the plant-based side of it.
Protein, flexible targets, and eating in a way that survives a real week. Plant-based questions get real answers here rather than a shrug.
Nutrition Coaching
03Physique & Press
The stage, and the coverage of it.
Building, cutting, prep, peak week and the rebuild afterward — plus the interviews and features where that work gets talked about publicly.
Bodybuilding Coaching
Ready when you are