033: Rich Roll – Anti-Hack Your Life | Mood Follows Action | Hard Work over Talent
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2015
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, we are speaking with health & wellness authority, Rich Roll. He is an accomplished author, endurance athlete, speaker, and he hosts a top-rated podcast - The Rich Roll Podcast.
We get into lots of off the beaten path topics with Rich that we haven't heard him discuss before. Enjoy the ride!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Rich's journey to becoming a leader in the health world
- The window diet
- How adversity can lead to success
- Rich's accomplishments in endurance sport
- Rich's journey into plant-based eating
- Is the vegan diet sustainable, longterm?
- Focus on making the best choice in the moment
- Plant-based foods that are excellent sources of protein
- The food with the highest concentration of protein by weight, on the planet
- Should we fear carbs + fats?
- Vegan, paleo, raw food... how can the various camps come together and work toward a common goal?
- A simple morning strategy that will have a profound impact on your health
- Superfoods are not the panacea to health
- It's not about hacking your way to success
- Authenticity is everything
- The details of how Rich begins a typical day
- Any easy way to meditate, daily
- HIIT vs. endurance training
- Stop training in the gray zone
- Should we focus on our strengths or improve upon our weaknesses?
- A lack of talent can be overcome by hard work
- The importance of a solid support system, ideally in person
- Mood follows action
Related Links:
Rich Roll and Julie Piatt - The Plantpower Way (book)
Follow Rich Roll on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Tolerant - The Gluten Free, Organic, Non-GMO Legume Pasta
Robb Wolf - The Paleo Solution (book)
10 Uncommon "Superfoods" from the World of Ultra-Endurance - Rich Roll (Tim Ferriss' Blog)
Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle Is The Way (book)
Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way (book)
Andy Puddicombe - Headspace Meditation App
Russell Brand - The Trews (YouTube)
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145: Robb Wolf – You Can’t Cheat On Your Diet • Wired To Eat • Is The Paleo Diet Right For Everyone?
244: Dr. Will Cole – Plant-Based Keto Diet • Women & Ketosis • Fats For Brain Health
257: Jesse Itzler – Living With The Monks • Only Fruit Until Noon • Flip Your Relationship With Time
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 33rd episode of the Ultimate Health |
| 0:14.0 | podcast where we take your health to the next level. My name's Jesse |
| 0:19.7 | Chappas and I'm here with Marnie Wasserman. |
| 0:23.0 | Today we have Rich Roll on the podcast |
| 0:27.0 | and we're really excited to share all this amazing health information, fitness exercise information. |
| 0:36.8 | We talk about so many different things, but first before we elaborate on that, let's get into this week's iTunes review of the week. |
| 0:46.8 | This one is by Plant Inspired Kitchen from Canada and this is a five-star review. |
| 0:55.0 | The title is Love This Podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | Marty and Dr. Jesse bring the most current information and players in health and wellness to this |
| 1:04.4 | podcast. They don't have a one-size-fits-all approach but encourage |
| 1:09.3 | listeners to take the information that resonates with them. |
| 1:12.6 | Keep up the great work. |
| 1:14.0 | I look forward to the new one every week. |
| 1:17.6 | So thank you so much for that awesome review. |
| 1:21.0 | Please keep the reviews coming. It really helps support the show. We appreciate each |
| 1:26.5 | and every one of you that takes the time to do that. So, thank you. |
| 1:31.1 | So on today's show we have Rich Roll as Jesse said and he's an athlete he's a |
| 1:36.7 | plant-powered enthusiast so I definitely relate to him and it was just really |
| 1:41.0 | nice talking to someone who has so many of the same philosophies on health, well-being, food, nutrition. |
| 1:47.0 | So we got into lots of things, everything from different sources of plant-based protein, some of the fats that Rich is using, as well as his |
| 1:56.2 | journey in the plant-based world, as well as his healing journey, and what really got him |
| 2:00.9 | into this lifestyle? |
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