Plant-Based Diet for Athletes

Can’t Keep Up? 7 Ways to Simplify Your Meal Planning

By: Matt Frazier

Staying on top of your diet is a lot like going to the gym. Once you’ve developed the habit, it’s easy — fun, even — to keep it up. You’re in control, you feel great, and you wonder why it ever took so long to start.

But when you’re on the outside looking in, knowing you’ve got to make a change but not sure where the extra time and energy are going to come from, just getting started can seem like the most overwhelming task in the world.

All it takes is planning

I’ve been in ruts before where I was going to the grocery store every single day. An hour before dinner time, I’d choose a recipe and go buy the ingredients, then come home and make dinner, only to do it all again the next day. I got to know the checkout people pretty well, but they must have wondered who this idiot was buying groceries every day. (more…)

3 Steps for Setting New Year’s Goals that Actually Work

By: Matt Frazier

New Year’s resolutions don’t stick. Everyone knows it, and it’s now become almost cliched to push for a “no-resolutions New Year’s.” But let’s make a big distinction here. On the one hand, you have the ill-fated type of resolution we’re all familiar with: “I won’t smoke in 2012.” “I’ll start my exercise plan on January […]

What Do You Say to Yourself When it Hurts the Most?

By: Matt Frazier

Last week when I was in San Francisco, I had the great pleasure of having a couple beers with Leo Babauta. Leo writes the blog Zen Habits, and over the past six months his ideas have shaped my thinking more than any others. So it was an absolute treat to hang out with him in […]

3 Hot Tips for Surviving Cold-Weather Runs

By: Matt Frazier

From an email I recently received (subject, “O’dark thirty”) : Hi Matt, It’s a tragic time when days are dark by the time I leave work and am ready for a run (living in Northern Ontario, this is the case for at least 5 months of the year). And living downtown it’s not just the […]

The Lazy Runner’s Guide to Preventing Injuries

By: Jason Fitzgerald

Note: This is a guest post from my friend Jason Fitzgerald from StrengthRunning.com. As a runner, you are 20 percent more likely to be injured next year than an NFL football player. That’s right. Some estimates put the injury rate for distance runners at 75% per year. That’s 3 out of every 4 runners who […]

From Chicken-Fried Steak to 26.2 Miles on Plants: Wendy’s Story

By: Matt Frazier

It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of this year, Wendy Fry was a gluttonous, lazy slob. (Her words, not mine.) From just the email interactions we had as she trained for her first marathon, I knew there was much more to the enthusiastic, motivated woman I was talking to than those words conveyed. […]

5 Easy Ways to (Finally) Start Running

By: Matt Frazier

“I’d love to run, but I just hate running!” Without a doubt, the best part of exhibiting at Vegfests like we’ve been doing recently is meeting so many NMA readers who come by our booth. And in the processes learning what you’re really about — what inspires you, what’s going well for you, and what […]

From Couch to Ironman® in a Year — The Ultimate ‘How-To’ Guide

By: Josh Muskin

We’ve all heard the phrase 0-60 to (amongst other things) describe the rate at which we dive head first into something. For most people, though, “something” isn’t an Ironman Triathlon. Not me though, for me, I decided to take a massive challenge head on and go from couch to Ironman in a year (ok, maybe […]

Announcing the New No Meat Athlete Store (and the Summer’s Best NMA Shirt Photos)

By: Matt Frazier

If you’re one of the 2500 or so people who now owns a No Meat Athlete shirt, chances are good that you got it via the simple sales page on my blog. (You know, the homemade one that probably left you with the feeling that it was about a 50/50 proposition between you actually getting […]

30 Days, 900 Very Ripe Bananas

By: guest

You might remember a guest post about fruitarianism on No Meat Athlete last year that drew a lot of negative comments, mostly dismissing the diet as a fad. But Ben Benulis wanted to see if there was something more to it. Here he is with a post about his experiment. As vegetarians and vegans, most […]