A review by kait_sixcrowsbooks
The Plant-Based Athlete: The Game-Changing Secret Revolutionizing How the World's Top Competitors Perform, by Robert Cheeke, Matt Frazier
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
Pretty good information on how to be an athlete on a plant-based diet! It was easy to read and digestible even though it seems overwhelming at first. However, I personally skipped over/skimmed a lot of the professional athlete stories and such because I didn’t really care for that.
Related to that, I also wish there was more of a focus on day-to-day athletes and not the professionals/real big athletes. Their stories/methods just...weren’t relatable to me. I don’t want to know how to become a professional athlete who has all the time in the world to train, I just want to know what others like me do when they want to gain a bit of muscle and have their own (relatively smaller) goals on a plant-based diet. I suppose I understand wanting to normalize the diet by showcasing well-known and successful athletes, but like. I don’t want what they have. I want to see how athletes similar to me make it work and eat and make food and all that.
So...yeah, I mean. The dietary information was pretty good. Some of the recipes seem tasty, and I will give them a try. But I could not get behind the emphasis on popular and crazy-successful athletes when I thought going in it would’ve been closer to smaller, day-to-day athletes.
Related to that, I also wish there was more of a focus on day-to-day athletes and not the professionals/real big athletes. Their stories/methods just...weren’t relatable to me. I don’t want to know how to become a professional athlete who has all the time in the world to train, I just want to know what others like me do when they want to gain a bit of muscle and have their own (relatively smaller) goals on a plant-based diet. I suppose I understand wanting to normalize the diet by showcasing well-known and successful athletes, but like. I don’t want what they have. I want to see how athletes similar to me make it work and eat and make food and all that.
So...yeah, I mean. The dietary information was pretty good. Some of the recipes seem tasty, and I will give them a try. But I could not get behind the emphasis on popular and crazy-successful athletes when I thought going in it would’ve been closer to smaller, day-to-day athletes.