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Well, it’s finally here! After many months of hard work with Jason Fitzgerald, the coach and author behind Strength Running, this Wednesday we finally launched our baby. Hmm, that came out weird. We didn’t literally launch a baby, I promise. Our “baby” is Run Your BQ, an interactive training and coaching website entirely dedicated to…
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Over the past two years, I’ve written plenty on No Meat Athlete about the changes I made to get fast enough to qualify for Boston. I’ve talked about how I stopped getting injured, how I improved my form, and the mindset that was required to take that much time off my first marathon. But it…
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“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.” – Thomas Watson, IBM I just came across this quote in a blog post called Failure Club, by Eric at Roc the Run. The post is about Eric’s dedication to qualify for the Boston Marathon,…
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Average. That’s how Tom Giammalvo describes his health and lifestyle prior to 2010. Not atrocious, not disgusting, not embarrassing. Not any of the extreme, negative descriptors we’ve come to expect with stories of transformation. Just average. And that’s why his is the perfect one to share. As far as his health was concerned, Tom wasn’t…
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We know that willpower is a finite resource. And if you’ve tried unsuccessfully to make changes in the past (who hasn’t?), you know that every subsequent time you try is harder than the previous. So what if there were a way to change bad habits without willpower, and with almost no effort at all? In…
You are not alone. But it sure can feel like it when you first go vegetarian — especially if you live in a place where, when you tell people you don’t eat meat, they ask, “But you still eat chicken and fish, right?” Look around, though, and you’ll find all kinds of resources out there…
Perhaps more than anyone else, Brendan Brazier is leading the growing trend of athletes moving to plant-based diets — from recreational runners and endurance athletes, like many of us, to NFL and NHL players whose very careers depend on their ability to perform at the highest level. Brendan’s ideas on optimal nutrition for performance, which…
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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…
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…
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…
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