Thriving Plant-Based Athletes | Robert Cheeke
The Brain Health Revolution Podcast
Dean and Ayesha Sherzai
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Dear friends, we're thrilled to be back after a long pause, and bring you another episode of the Brain Health Revolution Podcast. In this episode, we discuss the revolution we have been experiencing in the world of athletics as many of the top athletes are moving towards a plant predominant or a healthy vegan lifestyle, and in the process, changing the world of sports and athletics. Our guest is Robert Cheeke, who is an athlete, best selling author and all around amazing human.
Robert grew up on a farm in Corvallis, Oregon where he adopted a vegan lifestyle in 1995 at age 15, weighing just 120 pounds. Today he is the author of the books, Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness, Shred It!, Plant-Based Muscle, and the New York Times Bestseller, The Plant-Based Athlete. He is often referred to as the “Godfather of Vegan Bodybuilding,” growing the industry from infancy in 2002, to where it is today. As a two-time natural bodybuilding champion, Robert is considered one of VegNews magazine's Most Influential Vegan Athletes. He tours around the world sharing his story of transformation from a skinny farm kid to champion vegan bodybuilder. Robert is the founder and president of Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness and maintains the popular website, VeganBodybuilding.com. He is a regular contributor to No Meat Athlete, Forks Over Knives, and Vegan Strong, is a multi-sport athlete, entrepreneur, and has followed a plant-based diet for more than 25 years. Robert lives in Colorado with his wife and two rescued Chihuahuas.
This episode was recorded live for the Brain Health Revolution Community, where Robert answered questions at the end and our members interacted with him. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did.
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Website: https://www.veganbodybuilding.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Health Revolution podcast with your hosts, Aisha and Dean Cherzai. |
| 0:21.5 | Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well. We're so, so excited to have our friend, |
| 0:29.6 | Robert Cheek, New York Times bestselling author of this fabulous book, The Planned |
| 0:36.4 | Based Athlete, a game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance. |
| 0:40.6 | You guys have been reading this book this month. |
| 0:43.6 | This is the book of the month, Robert, and everybody's been going through it, |
| 0:47.3 | and we've been talking about the fantastic information that you've presented here. |
| 0:52.1 | So, you know, taking the liberty of representing our lovely |
| 0:55.3 | community from the Brain Health Revolution, I want to welcome you and thank you for being here |
| 1:00.5 | with us. Well, thank you so much for having me. I'm delighted to be here with you today. |
| 1:05.3 | Thank you so much. We've been hearing about your work for years now. |
| 1:11.6 | And I think for the first time we connected last year through the internet, the one year that we couldn't do the cruise, we had to do, you know, we got in through online. |
| 1:23.6 | So it's okay. |
| 1:24.6 | We did the online cruise, but it was a wonderful talking to you and knowing your journey |
| 1:30.5 | and what you've done. |
| 1:32.4 | For us, many of these conversations are much bigger, more meaningful than just the immediate |
| 1:38.8 | conversation. |
| 1:40.0 | It is about what we do in this planet, with communities, with how we empower others. |
| 1:45.8 | It's much, much, much bigger. |
| 1:48.3 | And so you are, and I'm not giving you false and flattery. |
| 1:52.2 | We talked about this with Brenda and the people that we bring here, we really truly respect deeply. |
| 1:58.0 | And we really respect all the work that you've done. |
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