A Closer Look at "The Plant-Based Athlete" by Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke

In their new book, The Plant-Based Athlete, Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke share how the world's top performers achieve optimal results on a vegan diet. In today's episode, they break down the biggest takeaways from the book and how you can apply them to your fitness goals and lifestyle. About the book The Plant-Based Athlete is the only research-based guide for connecting a plant-based diet with long-term strength, endurance, and peak athletic performance — featuring interviews with professional athletes who’ve made the switch from meat to plants. The Plant-Based Athlete 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. Here are just a few athletes interviewed for The Plant-Based Athlete, whose stories of physical transformation began when they discovered the power of plants: SCOTT JUREK, ultrarunner, 7-time Western States 100 Champion MEAGAN DUHAMEL, 2-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist, figure skating DARCY GAECHTER, the first and only woman to kayak the Amazon River from source to sea RICH ROLL, ultra-distance triathlete DAVID CARTER, NFL defensive end JAMES WILKS, UFC champion fighter, mixed martial artist VANESSA ESPINOZA, 3-time Colorado Golden Glove State champion DOTSIE BAUSCH, Olympic silver-medalist in track cycling RIP ESSELSTYN, professional triathlete and world record holder in swimming