Webinar: Performing on Plants, What The Plant-Based Athlete Needs to Know
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Date(s) - 05/27/2020
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Plant-based diets date back to the Ancient Greeks, with rich evidence in enhancing longevity and optimizing chronic health. Over time, plant-based diets were pushed to the fringe of modern society, despite the still well-established health benefits. However, attention from the media has caused a resurgence in a plant-based lifestyle over the last ten years. Documentaries have targeted (and most often over-simplified) environmental concerns, chronic health, and most recently, athletic performance, and how plant-based lifestyles are the answer. Since the release of the Game-Changers documentary in 2018 – with elite and professional athletes, in addition to medical doctors and scientists – advertising the “shocking” improvement in performance after dropping animal foods from their diet, adoption of a plant-based diet by athletes specifically has skyrocketed. But for every 100 athletes that go vegan overnight, a minuscule percentage of these athletes actually sustain the change. Enter, the large gap left by the media – the lack of evidence-based, practical, guidelines; a “plant-based toolbox” if you will.
Come listen to Heidi Strickler demystify plant-based eating for athletic performance, discuss the issues that most documentaries leave out, and offer ideas for filling your athletes’ toolboxes to set them up for success.
Heidi Strickler, MS, RD, CSSD, METS I, ISAK 1 is a Registered Sports Dietitian based in Seattle, WA. An avid endurance athlete, ultra-runner, and triathlete herself, she has a passion for providing virtual nutrition coaching to endurance athletes worldwide. She also specializes in plant-based nutrition and nutrition for female athletes. In addition to her global client base, she also holds office space at Prime Sports Institute in Bellingham, WA, and teaches Sports & Exercise Nutrition at Seattle Pacific University. Find out more about Heidi at Prime Sports Institute or follow her on Instagram @hkstrickler_sportsrd to read her other publications, listen to her podcasts, and learn more about her services.
When: Wednesday, May 27 from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Where: Virtual
Cost:
Students $5
Members $8
Non-members $10
CEUs: 1
RSVP: Email us at greaterseattleda@gmail.com and we’ll send you a link for the Zoom meeting!