Vegan Coach Takes NBA by Storm 🏀 | Joseph Blair

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Blair is not a stereotypical vegan. He's a hulking giant at 6'10" and 255 pounds. And players and other coaches in the NBA are taking notice.

Blair is known "The Vegan Coach" on and off the court and his high-profile job as an assistant with the Washington Wizards enables him to talk about the benefits of his diet with some of the biggest names in the sport. He's also inspiring coaches on other teams to improve their health by dunking on plants at dinner.

He joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast to talk about his motivation for becoming one of the public faces of plant-based eating in the NBA, and how it has taken his life and health to the next level.

Topics Discussed

- Best NBA cities for vegan food

- Best vegan restaurants in Washington, D.C.

- Could a plant-based diet extend a basketball player's career?

- His strict fasting routine

- Keeping up with players half his age at practice

- Eating healthy on the road

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room.
0:04.4	I'm not what you automatically think when you think a vegan.
0:07.6	You know, I'm 6-10, 25 pounds, I work out every day, I'm in really good shape.
0:12.1	I mean, here's the the thing you are in the
0:14.3	NBA the biggest basketball organization in the entire world do you ever feel
0:19.9	isolated there eating the way that you do and being so vocal about it?
0:23.9	You know it's crazy I really don't feel isolated. If anything I feel more like a
0:27.0	trendsetter because I feel like everything's going in that direction if you
0:30.3	was really starting to become more knowledgeable about plant-based diets and we'll have more players, honestly, that are willing to give it a try or that are now vegan as well.
0:40.0	You know, we have a handful of players in the NBA. Also, I'm starting to meet more and more coaches
0:45.6	that are vegan that I didn't know,
0:48.0	just because I've been so vocal about my veganism.
0:50.6	And as mainstream starts moving towards being more knowledgeable about what a plant-based diet is,
0:56.4	I think that's going to start really exploding in the sports world as well. Commission. Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around
1:16.4	the world in great cities like the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., Berkeley, California, and Cairo, Egypt.
1:24.4	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:29.4	This is episode 10 of season 7, number 509 overall.
1:36.0	It has been said that on the basketball court,
1:38.7	when you mess around, you get a triple double.
1:41.4	But with your diet, you mess around there, you get a triple double double. But with your diet you mess around there you get a triple bypass if you eat a double cheeseburger.
1:46.7	And so with that in mind we are thrilled today to be tapping into the ranks of the NBA.
1:53.4	That is the premier basketball league in the entire world.
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