He burned out because he jumped full on into workouts with one of the top long course triathletes in the world, who is also known for overdoing it. The blind leading the blind. Sanders is now following the Norwegian model and claims that his volume has gone way up, with more intensity at threshold. If Sanders hired him as a training partner, it would make sense to bring him along slowly and check him from himself. It looked like a disaster waiting to happen and it delivered as predicted.
Genuine question: has there ever been a high-level endurance athlete with long-term success following a plant-based diet? I don't know a ton about nutrition, but it seems to me like it's too difficult to train hard and completely avoid meat.
I don't eat red meat but will eat chicken and fish however I do go weeks on nothing but plant based. The key is to eat the plant based proteins such as impossible meat, or beyond meat, incognito. There is a number of substitutes that have essential nutrients so your body does not become depleted.
Genuine question: has there ever been a high-level endurance athlete with long-term success following a plant-based diet? I don't know a ton about nutrition, but it seems to me like it's too difficult to train hard and completely avoid meat.
Also, someone in their 20s who has a cartoon avatar of themselves has already lost and is SUCH a triathlete move. They have the gear and the gadgets and obsessively exercise themselves to death so that they can show it off to whomever...
Have you seen the video where Ari and Spencer are doing a tempo in Boulder on a gravel loop? Spencer is dying at the end of his 5 mile tempo, and Ari is smooth as butter with another 5k to go.
Guess who's the full-time runner now? Spencer. That doesn't make sense.
Ari would be a lock to run an Olympic marathon trials time, with a possible ceiling that is much higher than that.
As it stands now, I don't see him coming close to making a triathlon trials.
You guys are the dumbest bunch of noobs to ever grace a running forum if you think that meat or dairy is an essential part of an endurance athlete’s diet. The fastest marathoners on the planet eat high carb, plant-based diets. You can eat meat if you want but don’t fool yourself into thinking it helps your performance; it hinders it. Enjoy all of that heme iron clogging your blood vessels and undoing the work of your hard training. Sheeeesh you people…
This has nothing to do with a plant-based diet. Protein doesn't have to come from animals, and the American obsession with the idea that it does is sooo weird.
You are just parroting back what you saw in Netflix documentaries. It's not true.
A human can survive on donuts. But an optional diet includes a lot of meat.
Genuine question: has there ever been a high-level endurance athlete with long-term success following a plant-based diet? I don't know a ton about nutrition, but it seems to me like it's too difficult to train hard and completely avoid meat.
Also, someone in their 20s who has a cartoon avatar of themselves has already lost and is SUCH a triathlete move. They have the gear and the gadgets and obsessively exercise themselves to death so that they can show it off to whomever...
Ari needs to get back to running
He was a nobody in running and he's less than that in tri.
Weird statement - my skin has improved, my oral health has improved (no rotting meat particles messing with my gums), my energy level has stabilized (no slump during digestion), zero loss of muscle mass since I actually consume MORE protein now through a more diversified diet, and best of all I have significantly decreased my chances of getting cancer.
Have fun chasing after cancer, diabetes, strokes and heart disease.
Veganism is a massive global scam with Billion$ of profit$ driving it. Manboobs, skinny fat and brain fog are the main tangible results.
Perhaps, but the optimal eating spectrum for the best middle and long distance runners in the world is much closer to vegetarianism then to a meat based diet. They eat very little meat, some say about 1% of total consumption. Macros are
This has nothing to do with a plant-based diet. Protein doesn't have to come from animals, and the American obsession with the idea that it does is sooo weird.
You are just parroting back what you saw in Netflix documentaries. It's not true.
A human can survive on donuts. But an optional diet includes a lot of meat.
You're absolutely right, an "optional" diet can include a lot of meat. Another optional diet -a more morally sound, sustainable and, in most cases, healthier diet - is a plant-based one.
I really like animals, so there's an ethical dilemma in eating meat. But I do it. What I'm doing is morally unsound, and I admit it. I don't buy into arguments from both ends of the specturm--I believe there is a clear moral dilemma in eating meat, especially with industrial processes. I also believe that animal protein is an essential part of the diet, for most people.
So I act unethically, which I think is instructive on the demands of our dual nature, as biological animals with an ascendant moral nature. The two don't agree, in many areas.
Genuine question: has there ever been a high-level endurance athlete with long-term success following a plant-based diet? I don't know a ton about nutrition, but it seems to me like it's too difficult to train hard and completely avoid meat.
I don't eat red meat but will eat chicken and fish however I do go weeks on nothing but plant based. The key is to eat the plant based proteins such as impossible meat, or beyond meat, incognito. There is a number of substitutes that have essential nutrients so your body does not become depleted.
I'm interested to know your reasoning; why do you eat chicken and fish but not red meat?
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