The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance

Finally a comprehensive guide to improving fitness gains while on a plant-based diet. The book was full of practical information to implement right away. The testimonials from vegan pro-athletes were a nice surprise and took away the stigma that your diet has to be complicated to support athleticism. You don't have to be an athlete to benefit from this book. You'll learn how to put a plant-based meal together with tables of food types to guide you. This book is for all levels of athletes and people who want to clean up their diet for a healthier lifestyle. I've been a vegan for over 10 years and this is my best resource yet. I will refer to this book over and over again.

All I can say is wow!!! This book is amazing. I have recently turned plant based and up until now just been winging it really. However I have just started a training campaign and people were starting to freak me out that I couldn’t be plant based and achieve athletic success. Did some research, found this book, and not only can I now tell those people to shush, I feel as if actually I am going to smash it BECAUSE I am plant based.Lots of information, facts, and research that clearly laid out and comprehensible, without being dumbed down.Great stories and examples from elite plant based athletes as well as recipes that they eat!!!Thank you Matt and Robert for writing this, it is phenomenal.

I found this book educational and inspiring. With so many athletes you get a wide range of ideas. What and when they eat and train. Inspiring stories of their success in sports with much credit going to their plant based diets. Even if you are not an athlete but want to improve your health, this book can inspire and educate you.

A great read for anyone wanting to change to a plant-based lifestyle whether you are an athlete or not. This book is full of examples of athletes' daily food prep and consumption.

Although I've been whole-foods, plant-based (WFPB)/vegan for over eight years and work out 5-6 days a week, I originally wasn't going to buy this book since I don't consider myself to be an athlete. After listening to an interview with Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke on the Rich Roll Podcast, however, I decided to order it -- and am so glad I did!As I said, I don't consider myself to be an athlete, but I do read a lot about nutrition and fitness, since both are major hobbies of mine. While I already know some of the information in this book, it was really inspirational to read the stories/profiles of the 100 plant-based athletes that they interviewed for the book.My favorite chapters were the last two -- where we see a typical "day in the life" of what some athletes eat and where we get various recipes from the athletes. I've made a few of the recipes, and they have all been really good. Most of the recipes are very simple and easy to make, and they show how easy it is to eat plant-based.Since the athletes interviewed for the book range from ultrarunners to powerlifters to Olympic iceskaters, you get a nice feel for the range of eating plans that each athlete follows, depending on their goals (i.e., to put on muscle, to have the endurance to bike or run long distances, etc.).If you're new to WFPB eating and/or just want to incorporate more plants into your diet, you'll learn a lot from this book. If you already know the basics, this is a nice refresher course, and, as mentioned, very inspirational.