No Meat Athlete, Revised and Expanded: A Plant-Based Nutrition and Training Guide for Every Fitness Level-Beginner to Beyond [Includes More Than 60 Recipes!]

by Matt Frazier, Matt Ruscigno, Brendan Brazier (Foreword by)

Overview

No Meat Athlete is the plant-based guide you need to perform at your very best, no matter where you are on your fitness journey.

Combining proven training plans, easy yet innovative recipes, and motivational stories into a unique fitness guide, healthy-living cookbook, and nutrition primer, No Meat Athlete is perfect for all athletes, from beginner to elite, who want to enjoy the health benefits of a meatless lifestyle.

Veganism, already a top food trend and diet, is taking off in the sports world. The lifestyle has been adopted by Olympians, body builders, and boxers, as well as top athletes in the NBA and NFL. Hollywood is on board, too. James Cameron (director of Avatar and Titanic) has produced a film on the topic called The Gamechangers, which follows vegan athletes, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, US Olympian Kendrick James Farris, and surfer Tia Blanco. In No Meat Athlete, author, blogger, and hundred-mile ultramarathoner Matt Frazier will show you the many benefits to embracing a plant-based athletic lifestyle, including:

• Weight loss, which often leads to increased speed
• Easier digestion and faster recovery after workouts
• Improved energy levels to help not only athletic performance, but your daily life
• Reduced impact on the planet

In this revised and updated edition, you’ll also find new recipes, advice, and an all-new 12-week strength training plan designed to improve your overall fitness. Section I of the book provides practical advice for transitioning to a plant-based lifestyle, while ensuring you are getting all the nutrition you need. In Section II, Matt delivers training manuals of his own design for runners of all ability levels and ambitions, including tips for creating healthy habits, improving performance, and avoiding injuries.

No Meat Athlete is your road map to top-notch performance, the plant-based way!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592338597
Publisher:	Fair Winds Press
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Edition description:	Expanded
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	426,272
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Matt Frazier is a vegan ultramarathoner and founder of the No Meat Athlete movement (www.nomeatathlete.com). In 2014, Greatist named Matt one of the “100 Most Influential People in Health & Fitness.” His newsletter and blog have over 250,000 subscribers and his Facebook page has well over 125,000 likes. He is the author of The No Meat Athlete Cookbook and is featured regularly in running magazines, websites, and books, including Thrive Foods by Brendan Brazier and Finding Ultra by Rich Roll. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Matthew Ruscigno, MPH, RD, holds two degrees in nutrition and is past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietary Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In addition to his public health work, Matthew has a private practice and works closely with vegan athletes. An athlete himself, he has raced “The World's Toughest Iron-Distance Triathlon” in Eidfjord, Norway, ultramarathons, and 24-hour mountain bike races. He is a three-time finisher of the Furnace Creek 508, a 500-mile non-stop bike race that National Geographic calls the eighth hardest race in the world. Matthew contributed to the bestseller Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Matthew lives in San Diego, California.

Brendan Brazier is the formulator and cofounder of Vega, bestselling author of the Thrive book series, and editor in chief of Alive magazine. He’s also a former professional Ironman triathlete and a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion. Brendan is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on plant-based performance nutrition and works with several NHL, NFL, MLB, UFC, and Olympic plant-based athletes. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Foreword Brendan Brazier 10

Introduction 12

Section I Plant-Based Nutrition for Athletes

Chapter 1 Food and Nutrition Philosophy (When Did Eating Become so Complicated?) 22

Chapter 2 Getting Started: Creating a Healthy, Plant-Based Eating Habit 38

Chapter 3 Plant-Based Nutrition for Sports: An In-Depth Guide 64

Chapter 4 In the Kitchen: Basic Cooking Skills to Save You Time, Energy, and Embarrassment 93

Chapter 5 Recipes to Fuel Plant-Based Athletes (and their Families, too!) 98

Section II Running on Plants

Chapter 6 How You Can Learn to Love Running 170

Chapter 7 How to Make Running a Habit 181

Chapter 8 Taking It to the Next Level: Advanced Training Techniques 199

Chapter 9 The No Meat Athlete 12-Week Strength Plan 218

Chapter 10 Training for Your First (or Your Fastest) Race 234

Resources 262

Acknowledgments 265

Index 267

About the Authors 272