Vegetarian Athlete

The Plant-Based Athlete by Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke offers a persuasive body of evidence for adopting a plant-based lifestyle to achieve endurance, flexibility, sport, training, or lifting goals. Featuring more than 60 recipes, insights from famous plant-based athletes, and explosive scientific research, it is the ultimate invitation for joining the growing community of athletes (from elites to weekend warriors) who use plants to power their workouts and their every day.

"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.

The 31-Day Food Revolution is an eater's guide to liberation from a toxic food world. It offers an action plan for eating food that's healthy, ethical, sustainable, and delicious. Robbins reveals dark secrets the food industry doesn't want you to know that are making you sick. And he shows you how - in just 31 days - you can use the restorative power of foods to heal your gut, lose excess weight, and lower your risk for disease - all while contributing to a healthier planet.

The bestselling fitness book for men who want to gain 25-35 pounds of lean muscle and lose as much fat or more in just 3-5 hours per week—and without giving up delicious foods or doing grueling workouts. Is Bigger Leaner Stronger a body building book that can help you pack on brain-shrinking amounts of muscle in 30 days flat? No. Is it a fitness nutrition book full of dubious diet and exercise “hacks” and “shortcuts” for melting belly fat faster than a roided hornet? Absolutely not.

Like most people, I was born into a meat-eating family. Our daily meals consisted of meat and dairy. What I thought was a lot of healthy fresh foods like dairy products, eggs, meat, etc., were consumed. Though naturally, I love animals. After studying the vegan diet when I was 14, I decided to change my life and have been vegan ever since.

Athletes need to take the right quantity of proteins to maintain their strength! That’s why, the vast majority of the athletes have to follow high-protein eating plans that are almost always meat-based. What if high-protein eating plans could be based on healthier components such as vegetables? In fact, it’s not true that you have to take a lot of meat; you can get even more proteins following a plant-based diet.

Athletes and bodybuilders usually think it is very difficult to develop and train their muscles through a vegan diet due to the lack of animal protein. But this is wrong! Nature is a great healthy source of protein and many plant-based foods have even more protein than meat. Furthermore these foods contain vеrу lіttlе fat аѕ соmраrеd tо mеаt, thаt, as we know, can elevate сhоlеѕtеrоl lеvеlѕ аnd іnсrеаѕе thе rіѕk оf a hеаrt аttасk.

Whether you’re a new flexitarian or you’ve spent 8 years on the WFPBD (whole food plant-based diet), this book’s got you covered. There’s something for everyone. Even if you don’t consider yourself an athlete, you shouldn’t let your diet ruin your training efforts.

Would you like to improve your athletic performance? Do you want to build muscular mass? Just keep reading to find out more! To ensure optimal performance, vegetarian athletes need to consume adequate energy and select foods rich in the “red flag” nutrients, which either are found less abundantly in vegetarian foods or are less well absorbed from plant compared to animal sources.