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Welcome back to Team VPA, Ayaz Asif 🌱🚴‍♂️

Welcome back to Team VPA, Ayaz Asif 🌱🚴‍♂️

We are proud to welcome Ayaz Asif back to Team Vegan Powered Athlete for his fifth year on the team. Ayaz has been vegan for 13 years and his journey into endurance sport began later in life when he transitioned from a lifelong vegetarian diet to fully plant based. That decision sparked a complet...
January: Fuel the Foundation

January: Fuel the Foundation

January is not about starting over. It is about building a foundation. The way you eat in January sets the tone for your energy, your training, and how you feel in your body for the rest of the year. At THRIVE Recipe Club, we believe food should do more than fill you up. It should fuel your days,...
🌱 Holiday Comfort, Powered by Compassion 🌱

🌱 Holiday Comfort, Powered by Compassion 🌱

The holidays are the perfect time to show that compassion belongs on the plate too. Whether you are cooking for fellow vegans or sharing a table with non-vegan friends and family, these two simple, crowd-pleasing dishes prove that plant-based food can be nourishing, comforting, and absolutely del...
🌱 Plant-Based Living: Quiet Strength Behind Every Mile

🌱 Plant-Based Living: Quiet Strength Behind Every Mile

Reflection and Celebration “Year in Review: How Plant-Based Living Fueled Your Training” As the year winds down, December gives us something we rarely get during the training grind. A chance to pause, breathe, and look back at everything we have accomplished. Whether you raced your first event, s...
Getting enough protein on a plant-based diet? 100% doable. 💪🌱

Getting enough protein on a plant-based diet? 100% doable. 💪🌱

If you’ve ever told someone you’re an athlete who eats plant-based, chances are you’ve heard this one: “But where do you get your protein?”   It’s one of the most common (and persistent) myths in both the fitness and plant-based communities — that you need animal products to get enough protein, o...
🌱 Nutrition for Mental Resilience in Endurance Sports

🌱 Nutrition for Mental Resilience in Endurance Sports

Endurance training isn’t just about building stronger legs, lungs, or cardiovascular capacity, it’s also about cultivating a resilient mind. When the miles get long, the climbs get steep, or the race-day nerves kick in, your mental state often becomes the deciding factor between pulling back and ...

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