Category Archives: Motivation & Change

Vegan Bodybuilder Robert Cheeke

It doesn't matter whether or not you give a damn about bodybuilding.  As a vegetarian or vegan, you should be proud to call Robert Cheeke one of your own. Robert is one of the most passionate people you'll ever come across.  Besides ...

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The Belief that Will Take Your Training to the Next Level

If you look at people who are successful in almost any field, you'll find a belief that they all share. I learned it from Tony Robbins (you watched his show on Tuesday, right?), and it has made a major difference not just ...

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The One Time I'm Going to Encourage You to Watch TV

It may not have a lot to do with running or being vegetarian, but it has everything to with making big changes.  And, for that matter, with this blog. A year and three months ago, I went to Tony Robbins' Unleash the Power ...

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On Quitting, Failure, and Eating Solid Food

I caved. And I didn't just go down, I went down in flames. Just a few hours after I wrote about how hard, emotionally, it was to abstain from eating solid food, it all became too hard.  As I went to warm up yet ...

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The Endurance Ninja Guide to Drop-Kicking Your Fears

Post by Susan Lacke. Fear is probably the thing that limits performance more than anything - the fear of not doing well, of what people will say. You've got to acknowledge those fears, then release them. -Mark Allen, six-time Ironman champion Almost every ...

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Today, I Hate Running

Post by Susan Lacke. I got an e-mail from my friend Jess a little while ago: Jess was two weeks away from her first half-marathon. In ...

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Triathlon Training—The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Susan Lacke is back this week with more discoveries from her new life as an endurance athlete.  After running her first marathon in February, Susan is currently training for Ironman Wisconsin 2010. At the start of my last post, Matt introduced ...

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When You Need to Welcome Unwelcome Criticism

This is a guest post by Susan, a vegetarian marathoner and 2010 Ironman hopeful. She wrote her first guest post, The No-Meat Newbie, shortly after completing her first marathon. The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.  Norman Vincent Peale Endurance athletes, as a ...

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Caitlin from Healthy Tipping Point

Caitlin needs little introduction in the health blog world.  She's the blogger behind Healthy Tipping Point and Operation Beautiful, and a newly-published author.  Maybe you've seen one of those positive Post-it notes on a mirror somewhere? Hello, No Meat Athlete Readers!  I ...

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Running From Body Image Issues

Hey everybody, this is Christine here for Sweet-Tooth Friday.  I was working on a healthy dessert recipe for this week, but I couldn't stop thinking about a weird experience I had concerning body image issues...it all started off with the simple phrase: Let's plan a weekend and go to the beach!

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