Though the book seems geared toward the more serious athlete, there are a number of diet and exercise tips that might be helpful to those who are just looking to get fit. He has diagrams and instructions for structured gym workouts, though many of the exercises look like you could do them at home with a bench, dumbbells and an exercise ball like this one.
He has some good tips about exercising while traveling and suggests not slacking off during this time as one can really see results fade.The book makes mention that Brazier is one of only a few professional athletes in the world whose diet is 100% plant-based. After reading the diet section, I can see why. It looks like a lot of trouble and not enough protein, but perhaps it has more than I realize just by eyeballing the diet. Brazier owns some kind of nutritional line called VEGA that is plant-based and the food he suggests is based on that. It consists of a lot of smoothies, fruit and cereal during the day and a big salad of mixed greens, grated carrots and dressing for dinner and raw pumpkin seeds and almonds for snacks. Sorry, but if I exercise, this diet is not going to cut it for me.
There is no way I could live without more protein in the form of chicken, meat or fish. I tried when younger to eat a plant-based vegetarian diet and ended up at 24 (12 years later) trolling the supermarket in the middle of the night in search of tuna fish. Tonight, I'm about to bake a bunch of barbecued chicken for dinner. Perhaps if I were more serious, I would try harder, but I don't have it in me.
If you have had a good experience with a plant-based diet or not, let me know. Maybe I'm missing something....or not.
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