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A few years ago Jonathan Cairns was 46, fat, unfit, and going through a very painful separation.
He had never exercised and had zero energy but as a way of dealing with the pain and frustration of his separation, he decided to take up running. Or as he talks about in his book The Plant Based Runner A Personal Guide to Running, Healthy Eating, and Discovering a New You, he started to 'put one foot in front of the other'.
This book is raw and real. There is nothing in it that is not tried and tested by Cairns, and it has an authentic ring about it. This is a personal story, about his struggle to see his children in the face of a relentless, anti-father bias in the judicial system. He is running to solve problems, running to find solutions as opposed to running away from trouble. He takes responsibility for everything that is his.
Straight-talking and funny, Jonathan takes you by the hand and chapter by chapter helps you to put your excuses aside and find a new appreciation for your body, your health and for the power of confidence. You feel like if you follow his steps you could do a lot more with your life.
There are books that you will read that tell you how to live, or how to do something that will improve your life, and if you follow the advice, as you might for a time, it may work, for a while. And there are books that will leave you changed, transported to another place in yourself and in the world you inhabit because of the power of the story that you have read.
Even if you are not a runner or a dad deprived of your kids, this is a read that has inspiration and hope.
Download The Plant Based Runner A Personal Guide to Running Healthy Eating and Discovering a New You eBook Jonathan Cairns
"When I was approached to review Jonathan Cairns book, Plant Based Runner, I was skeptical. As a Doctor of Chiropractic, Acupuncturist, Natural Health column writer and author of 12 books, I have read hundred of health related books. I am someone who has dedicated their life to health. I wondered what about this book would make me review it positively and suggest it to others. I knew I had to be honest. Now, having read the book I can enthusiastically endorse this book. There are many reasons I can do so. Jonathan imparts bits of wisdom throughout the book. He has an insightful and candid approach to health that is honest and forthright. He isn't selling you junk. He understand confirmation bias (including his own). He helps you build an actual road map to better health. In his writing, Jonathan takes the high road by admitting his approach is an approach, not the only approach. He is tough enough to tell the hard truths: Reward requires work. Hard work works. Success is never given, it's earned. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. There is no magic pill, etc.​ In his candid way Jonathan points out that health is something that must be worked on constantly and on an everyday bases. He imparts the wisdom that in order to gain one's health one must act. Along the way he tells his story of becoming a runner. When he starts getting around the block tires him out. But gradually and over time he strives and wins, strives and fails. But, he always gets up again and continues moving forward. He finds his health in improved diet and exercise. You might go, ho-hum, heard it before, yada yada yada. Well, stop and have a look at Jonathan's story. He opens his heart and his mind and as he struggles, you struggle. As he wins, you win. When he succeeds you succeed with him. He truly lets you in that deeply. Too boot, in the end he gives you appendices with what foods worked for him, some recipes, training plans, etc. Not only does he take you on his journey, he gives you an outline of a plan for your own. Dig into this book, enjoy the ride and perhaps you can find/create a new map that will make you healthier."
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The Plant Based Runner A Personal Guide to Running Healthy Eating and Discovering a New You eBook Jonathan Cairns Reviews
- The honesty, it felt like a book for beginners until 50% in but it's a decent read for any runner. I look forward to cooking a meal
- Very inspirining, definitely recommend
- Great book with some inspiring stories
- Being a runner myself and recently going plant based I found the book very worthwhile. The book is an easy read and often speaks my language perfectly.
- Disclaimer- I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This book is unlike any other book about health and nutrition that I have ever read, and I have read quite a number of them. Honestly, I had begun avoiding such books because they prescribe a one size fits all solution based on an isolated aspect of nutrition and exercise and I have either actually gained weight from following them or found that they required a complete overhaul of habits right away and I just was not able to do it. Just mre crappy books adding to a cacaphony of crappy information and advice. What made this book completely different from all those others was a few things. One thing I liked is that the author is not a so-called expert, focusing on one isolated type of nutrition or solution. He is very clear that he is only talking about ways of eating that he has found worked for himself and shares them with us. He does not make one of those "do this and you'll lose weight and get gorgeous again" claims. That stuff just makes me wnt to run in the opposite direction to the nearest barf bag. Another thing that makes this book different and, in my opinion, more effective is the extended and very detailed accounting of the author's personal struggles and the rugged emotional and physical landscape of his journey to where he is now. Most of the authors of these types of books tell their story in a vague way about how they got to the low point of their health and then describe the steps they took to get healthy again. But I have never seen this degree of description, almost a memoir inside a self help book that drove home to me the most important point i took away just because something feels difficult, impossible and out of reach, it isn't and that those type of feelings are a natural part of the process that you can face and deal with and prove to be unreal limitations. Which leads me to the other most important point that ties the other points together the author's rigorous, unflinching honesty in his work for self-awareness. He does not leave even the tiniest space for excuses and justifications, but puts the burden of getting healthy on each of us. No b.s. No lying to ourselves. I have not read one other book that stresses this point at all. If a person is willing to really look inside and get real about their feelings amd attitudes and decides theyare not going to oet those things stop them, then they can make real changes, develop better habits for a lifetime. I am not a runner anymore but I didn't feel like this book didn't speak to me since the author states that what he has learned and achieved can be applied to any other passion in a person's life. In that way, he makes his story a universal story, something that can be helpful for everyone.
- There were two things about this book that initially intrigued me Plant-based eating and running. In the book, Cairns details his journey from being overweight and not able to run around the block, to becoming a marathon and ultra marathon runner. I've tried vegetarian and vegan diets in the past so I can attest to the physical and mental changes that Cairns experienced once he applied a plant-based diet, cut his dairy and sugar intake while committing to a daily running routine. The races served as motivation to train without just going through the motions. While getting in shape, there's a lot of psychological warfare that challenges everything we know to be true. Cairns does a great job describing the many emotions that he felt in training and in the actual races. At the end of the book, he closes with some plant-based recipes that will tremendously speed up the process of weight loss, give you more energy and very likely, add years to your life. The book uses running as the inspiration but it's more than about running; it's about quality of life. As Cairns so eloquently put it, "If you don't make time for wellness you need to make time for sickness."
- When I was approached to review Jonathan Cairns book, Plant Based Runner, I was skeptical. As a Doctor of Chiropractic, Acupuncturist, Natural Health column writer and author of 12 books, I have read hundred of health related books. I am someone who has dedicated their life to health. I wondered what about this book would make me review it positively and suggest it to others. I knew I had to be honest. Now, having read the book I can enthusiastically endorse this book. There are many reasons I can do so. Jonathan imparts bits of wisdom throughout the book. He has an insightful and candid approach to health that is honest and forthright. He isn't selling you junk. He understand confirmation bias (including his own). He helps you build an actual road map to better health. In his writing, Jonathan takes the high road by admitting his approach is an approach, not the only approach. He is tough enough to tell the hard truths Reward requires work. Hard work works. Success is never given, it's earned. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. There is no magic pill, etc.​ In his candid way Jonathan points out that health is something that must be worked on constantly and on an everyday bases. He imparts the wisdom that in order to gain one's health one must act. Along the way he tells his story of becoming a runner. When he starts getting around the block tires him out. But gradually and over time he strives and wins, strives and fails. But, he always gets up again and continues moving forward. He finds his health in improved diet and exercise. You might go, ho-hum, heard it before, yada yada yada. Well, stop and have a look at Jonathan's story. He opens his heart and his mind and as he struggles, you struggle. As he wins, you win. When he succeeds you succeed with him. He truly lets you in that deeply. Too boot, in the end he gives you appendices with what foods worked for him, some recipes, training plans, etc. Not only does he take you on his journey, he gives you an outline of a plan for your own. Dig into this book, enjoy the ride and perhaps you can find/create a new map that will make you healthier.
