Matt Frazier - No Meat Athlete: A Plant-Based Nutrition and Training Guide for Every Fitness Level—Beginner to Beyond, Revised and Expanded

No Meat Athlete will not only power your strength and endurance, it will give you an extra edge in every aspect of your life.

Neal Barnard, M.D.,
author of Power Foods for the Brain

As a runner who began competing in the days of the traditional steak training meal, I welcome this books enlightening confirmation of my own experience: Athletes who pass on the meat can perform at the highest level and still enjoy their meals to the max.

Ed Ayres,
founder, Running Times magazine, and author of The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, an Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance

Matt Frazier is a rising star in the world of vegan athletes. Covering the mechanics of diet and training as well as the transformative nature of a whole-foods, plant-based diet, he demonstrates that a body running on plants is probably the one ahead of you at the finish line!

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau,
author of The Vegan Table and The Joy of Vegan Baking

Anyone can become a no meat athlete, and Matt Frazier provides the roadmap to wellness and performance no matter where the journey takes you.

Scott Jurek,
world-renowned ultramarathon champion and author of Eat and Run

In this fantastic book, Matt clearly lays out a simple but powerful plan for changing your eating habits. In small steps, you can create a healthier, stronger, more compassionate diet that will fuel the best version of you.

Leo Babauta,
simplicity blogger at zenhabits.net

Matt Frazier takes all the guesswork out of maximizing your health the plant-based way with his bulletproof primer No Meat Athlete. Whether you are an elite marathoner or a weekend warrior, this clear, concise, and no-nonsense book is your one-stop roadmap to creating and maintaining a sustainable plant-based lifestyle. All hail the running carrot!

Rich Roll,
plant-based ultra-distance athlete and author of Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the Worlds Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

an inspiring and empowering book for people interested in being healthy, happy, and active. I highly recommend this accessible, life-changing book.

Gene Baur,
founder, Farm Sanctuary

If youve been waiting for the inspiration to turn your life around (by changing what you eat), here it is. It might not make the industrial food complex happy, but youll be glad you did.

Seth Godin,
author of The Icarus Deception

Well-organized, very accessible, and a joy to read. This book gives you the real how and why of healthy living with real-life applications, actual training plans, and easy recipesFrazier nailed it with this book.

Sid Garza-Hillman,
author of Approaching the Natural: A Health Manifesto

an excellent resource for the new or experienced athlete. If you are looking for an outstanding guide to improving your health and fitness, No Meat Athlete is the book for you.

Robert Cheeke,
author of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness: The Complete Guide to Building Your Body on a Plant-Based Diet

Considering No Meat Athlete is about eating a plant-based diet and running distances most people dont even like to drive, Matt Frazier presents the tools and information he shares in a way that is downright approachable, leaving his readers energized with a sense of possibility.

Brendan Brazier,
ultramarathon runner and author of Thrive

Inspiring, encouraging, and packed with practical information, this is a book that will help anyone at any fitness level learn to eat and train for optimal plant-powered health.

Virginia Messina,
M.P.H., R.D., author of Vegan for Life and Vegan for Her

This book is a fantastic, no-fuss, no-judgment approach to plant-based eating and fitness. Whether youre curious, brand-new to this, or just keeping the blade sharpget educated, get fed, get fitread this book.

Osher Gnsberg,
TV host, Australian Idol

filled with practical advice, solid nutrition information, running tips, training plans, and recipes to fuel athletes of all abilities a comprehensive guide to what you need to be healthy and fit while eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet.

Reed Mangels, Ph.D., R.D.,
coauthor of Simply Vegan and The Dietitians Guide to Vegetarian Diets

If you were not feeling inspired or empowered before reading this book, you certainly will after. No Meat Athlete is the plant-based fuel that will keep you running strong!

Terry Walters,
author of Clean Food and Clean Start

E ven as interest in plant-based diets grows and this healthy lifestyle becomes a more common part of mainstream culture, people are often still surprised to hear that such a diet, free of animal products, is more than adequate to fuel active lifestylesfrom basic recreation for fitness to serious athletic endeavors.

Theyre even more shocked when I tell them, in my books and in talks throughout North America, that I chose this diet precisely because of what it could do for me as an athlete. When I made the decision in high school to try to become a professional endurance athlete, I experimented with all kinds of diets to find the one that would best support my dream. In the process of experimentation, I discovered that a plant-based diet stood alone as the one which most effectively allowed me to recover quickly from workouts, despite what coaches and others around me believed. The decreased recovery time between workouts that resulted from my new diet allowed me to train harder and more often than the competition, and ultimately, I see this advantage as the reason I succeeded in becoming a professional Ironman triathlete and have twice won the Canadian 50K ultramarathon championship.

The benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, though, go far beyond athletic performance. Its no secret that the standard American diet of processed and nutrient-devoid food has wreaked havoc on our health as a society, with obesity levels even among children soaring to all-time highs as a result. But whats not nearly as often talked about is that there exists a simple solution that can be implemented on the level of the individualadopting a nutrient-rich, whole-food, plant-based diet. Almost immediately, such a diet can lead to lower levels of stress, better sleep, and a better mood. And longer-term, it has been shown to dramatically lower the incidence of heart disease and certain cancers, the leading killers in our society.

Environmentally speaking, eating plants over meat makes sense. Less land, water, and fossil fuels go in the production of plants, and fewer CO2 emissions are produced. Its simply a matter of efficiency; more nutrition (micronutrients) can be gained while spending less of each natural resource to get it.

And regardless of what you may believe about the right or wrong of raising animals for food, the way our current food system treats these animalswith its emphasis on factory farming and profit above all elseis hard to stomach.

Its incredible that a solution so simple as adopting a plant-based, whole-food focused diet can have such a large impact on all of the above areas. And yet, even when presented with the clear benefits of a plant-based diet, the vast majority of people still consider this lifestyle to be far more extreme than could ever work in their lives. And so they do little, and as a result, not much changes.