Should You Be Eating Plant Based? Joe De Sena asks authors of Plant Based Athlete

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

You don't have to change everything - start with more plants. Joe De Sena, founder and CEO of Spartan, talks to the authors of "The Plant Based Athlete," Matt Frazier (founder of the No Meat Athlete community) and Robert Cheeke (vegan bodybuilder) and the how and why of eating more plants. Find out what Joe and these experts have to say about the protein hoax, and an easy first step to getting more plants in your diet.

More about Matt Frazier - he’s a vegan ultrarunner, best known as the founder of the No Meat Athlete movement and author of The No Meat Athlete Cookbook. Matt found he could run faster and longer when he began eating a plant-based diet, and qualified for the Boston Marathon and completed his first 100-mile ultramarathon soon after doing so. Matt Frazier: @nomeatathlete_official

More about Robert Cheeke -he’is a champion vegan bodybuilder and the founder of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness. He is the author of Shred It! and Plant-Based Muscle, and is a contributor to No Meat Athlete, Forks Over Knives, Vegan Strong, and other popular websites. He has followed a plant-based diet for more than twenty five years. Robert Cheeke: @robert.cheeke

Read The Plant Based Athlete https://book.nomeatathlete.com

Joe De Sena’s Parenting book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families”

https://www.spartan.com/10Rules

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You know my favorite responses I'm sure it's your favorite response to I get from people when I talk about
0:06.6	Plant-based where do you get your protein? I'm good I don't I don't need it
0:11.7	It's crazy that we focus on one nutrient like that.
0:14.3	There are so many parts of a diet or a lifestyle
0:17.0	that an athlete should be thinking about optimizing.
0:19.4	And you have to think like, yes, like, okay,
0:21.8	you can choose that that's going to be your one thing you focus on but when you focus on getting tons of protein that means you're necessarily not focusing on something else.
0:29.0	I don't ever remember there being a narrative around where you're going to get your electrolytes today.
0:34.9	Where are you getting your carbohydrates today?
0:36.7	Yeah, exactly.
0:37.7	Where are you getting your fiber?
0:38.7	Where are you getting your antioxidants?
0:39.7	Where are you getting your phytogneutrients?
0:41.1	What about your nitric oxide? And exactly, and also, Joe, I think you're kind of
0:44.9	hinting at this that protein and, you know, labeled everywhere in gas stations or fast food restaurants or on menus. It's one of the
0:51.0	greatest marketing campaigns of our time. I mean consider
0:53.9	this everyone listening consider this it's very likely that you've never met anyone
0:59.3	in your entire life who has a true clinical protein deficiency.
1:03.0	Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Descena,
1:08.0	founder and CEO of Spartan Race.
1:10.0	We are talking about overcoming obstacles.
1:14.0	The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course,
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