Ellen Jaffe Jones - Vegan Fitness for Mortals: Eat Your Veggies, Be Active, Avoid Injury, and Get Healthy for Life

I love how this book combines both a practical plan for adopting a vegan diet with a valuable guide to fitness training. They complement each other like PB&J! I will recommend this book to my patients who need more plant-powered meals and a push to move more. Vegan Fitness for Mortals is a winner for sure.

Joel Kahn, MD

Clinical professor of cardiology, Wayne State University of Medicine

The Whole Heart Solution

This may be the perfect fitness book, and when you think about who wrote ita woman who went from regular gal to a master athletethats not surprising. Its a rarity in this genre to recommend a vegan diet for sport as well as health, with every claim backed up. The food, the drills, and the reasons why moving your body like you mean it are all essential now. This book has everything youre looking forunless youre looking for excuses.

Victoria Moran

Director, Main Street Vegan Academy

Main Street Vegan and The Good Karma Diet

Vegan Fitness for Mortals is a friendly fitness and diet companion that offers something useful and practical for everyone. Whether youre an advanced fitness enthusiast or simply want to add a little more motion into your day, Ellen Jaffe Jones will help motivate and guide you in the right direction toward fulfilling your wellness goals.

John Pierre

Fitness and nutrition consultant

The Pillars of Health and Strong, Savvy, Safe

Authoritative, friendly, and inviting all at once. Ellen Jaffe Jones captures our hearts and attention with a dramatic personal story, inspiring us to get movingand get eating healthyfrom the first page. A wonderful fitness lifestyle guide that happily sings fit, vegan, and proud of it!

Lani Muelrath

Plant-based lifestyle coach

The Plant-Based Journey and Fit Quickies

I absolutely love this bookit is brilliantly thorough and beautifully readable. The information is practical, persuasive, and just plain fun. Ellens story is both moving and motivational. Vegan Fitness for Mortals is an exceptional addition to the bookshelf of every vegan who aspires to live an active, healthy life. Two thumbs up!

Brenda Davis, RD

Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive and Express editions

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jones, Ellen Jaffe, author.

Title: Vegan fitness for mortals / Ellen Jaffe Jones.

Description: Summertown, TN: Healthy Living Publications, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016022021 (print) | LCCN 2016026271 (ebook) | ISBN 9781570673405 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781570678561 (E-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Physical fitness--Nutritional aspects. | Veganism. | Health.

Classification: LCC RA781 .J667 2016 (print) | LCC RA781 (ebook) | DDC 613.2/622dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022021

We chose to print this title on sustainably harvested paper stock certified by The Forest Stewardship Council, an independent auditor of responsible forestry practices. For more information, visit https://us.fsc.org .

2016 Ellen Jaffe Jones

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Cover and interior design: John Wincek

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Disclaimer: The information in this book is presented for educational purposes only. It isnt intended to be a substitute for the medical advice of a physician, dietitian, or other healthcare professional.

have known Ellen Jaffe Jones for more than half a decade, and I cant think of another vegan athlete who has competed in sports more times than she has. It seems that every weekend shes either running a 5K race or out on a book tour spreading the message of vegan fitness. Of course, there are weekends when shes doing bothrunning a 5K in the morning and giving a lecture in the afternoon, as well as signing books throughout the day. The reason I mention Ellens consistent effort is because leading by example is one of the most powerful teaching tools and the best way to model what you advocate. Ellen writes passionately about vegan fitness, but she also lives the vegan fitness lifestyle, walking her talk, or in her case, running her talk, to the tune of a new victory (for herself as a runnerand for animals) every weekend.

Vegan Fitness for Mortals acknowledges the athlete inside each of us, regardless of our age, background, health, physical limitations, or experience in sports. Movement is the foundation of exercise and of being athletic. We move to stay fit, to keep up with our kids or grandkids, to keep ourselves healthy and strong, and to enjoy activities such as hiking that we may not even consider to be forms of exercise. Vegan Fitness for Mortals appeals to everyday people: men and women, young and old, athletes and couch potatoes. I have more than two decades of experience as a vegan athlete, with multiple championships in both bodybuilding and endurance running, and I continue to learn from Ellen as a fitness role model. Even accomplished, longtime vegan athletes will find this book a helpful resource because we all have room to grow and learn something new. Ellen includes beginner, intermediate, and advanced variations for a wide array of exercise programs and a range of athletic levels, making this book ideal not only for individuals but also for couples, families, and groups.

Ellens evolution from a junk-food meat eater to a vegan coach, best-selling author, and champion vegan athlete is inspiration enough to embrace this book, but more than that, the insights she offers will help you become your personal best too. Were all searching for the key to happiness. While Ellen can show you how to exercise and what to eat, ultimately you have to find your own compelling reasons to make positive changes in your life. Will becoming fit, having more energy, reducing your risk of common degenerative diseases, and improving your overall health make you happier? Probablybut you wont know until you try. Ellens wisdom and advice will help you discover what great things youre capable of when you believe in yourself.