{"id":34640,"date":"2018-11-15T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomeatathlete.s1.cdadev.com\/?p=34640"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:05:44","slug":"behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Behind the Scenes Look at No Meat Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Google, the average lifespan<\/a> of a blog is just 100 days — just over three months from conception to giving up.<\/p>\n

And honestly, it’s not surprising. Having created my own blog<\/a>, and now having worked with Matt at No Meat Athlete for over six years, I know that maintaining a site people actually want to read is more of a marathon than a Color Run.<\/p>\n

Content takes time to do right, communities grow slowly, and finding a way to be compensated for the massive amounts of time and effort…<\/p>\n

Well that’s an entirely different subject.<\/p>\n

So it’s somewhat of a plant-based miracle that —\u00a0after beginning as a little side project for Matt to document his journey of going vegetarian and qualifying for Boston — No Meat Athlete has flourished for nearly 10 years…<\/p>\n

Thanks in large part to you, our tribe of readers and supporters who believe in what we’re doing here.<\/p>\n

I know that if I hadn’t discovered No Meat Athlete when I first went vegetarian, I wouldn’t have had the confidence I did to keep training, and ultimately might never have gone vegan.<\/p>\n

You might feel the same way.<\/p>\n

But No Meat Athlete looks a lot different than it did 10 years ago (actually, the site itself doesn’t look all that different… but spoiler! An updated site is dropping very, very soon).<\/p>\n

What started as Matt’s daily food and lifestyle journal — not sure he’d be thrilled with me calling it that, but hey, I’m the one writing this post \ud83d\ude09 — now consists of a team of seven, a weekly podcast<\/a>, two published books<\/a>, countless nutrition and fitness resources<\/a>, and a community of hundreds of thousands of plant-based athletes.<\/p>\n

Instead of just one guy posting on a blog and sharing it with his friends, NMA has grown into a team of people all focused on a single mission: supporting a growing community of plant-based athletes as they set big goals and accomplish amazing things.<\/p>\n

How cool is that?<\/em><\/p>\n

And we have a lot<\/em> going on. To give you a quick idea of what the current No Meat Athlete looks like, here’s a peek at what was going on today, Thursday, November 15th:<\/p>\n