Robert Cheeke Author of The Plant Based Athlete Congratulations on publishing The Plant Based Athlete! How has life been treating you since it’s release? Thank you so much! This has been a lifetime in the making for me, as someone who has wanted to be an author since I was 8 years old, so it has been a dream come true. I am in my 26th year as a plant-based athlete, and this has been the biggest project I have ever completed. The PlantBased Athlete became a New York Times Bestseller, a #1 International Bestseller, a Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller, and a #1 Amazon Bestseller in 4 categories (Nutrition, Exercise and Fitness, Vegan Diets, and Sports Psychology). It has been a whirlwind past couple of months, but I am embracing it as I fulfilled my lifelong dream of becoming a bestselling author.
44 I Plant Powered Planet
The book is co-written by Matt Frazier, founder of No Meat Athlete. How did that partnership come about? I have known Matt Frazier, the founder of No Meat Athlete, for more than ten years. Matt manages perhaps the largest plantbased athlete community in the world, and he was my first choice as a co-author. I presented this idea of The Plant-Based Athlete to him, with the goal of telling the compelling stories of the world’s greatest plantbased athletes, and he enthusiastically agreed to collaborate on this book with me. The collaboration between Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness and No Meat Athlete has been a long time coming, pairing two of the largest plant-based athlete communities in the world together, which resulted in publishing one of the bestselling books in the world, and it has been an honor to partner with my long-time friend on this meaningful project.
