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The Key to Staying Disciplined

August 11, 2021August 19, 2021 Rick 43 Views 0 Comments athlete, commitment, determination, discipline, fitness, focus, grateful, gym, inspiration, inspirational, inspired, leg day, lift, motivation, motivational, passion, plant based, plant-based athlete, power, sacrifice, strength, strong, thankful, vegan, weightlifting, will, workout

“I could never live like you. I wouldn’t want your lifestyle.” Said to me by a 19-year-old elite junior hockey

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Vibrant NRGizer: Sue Bird

July 24, 2021August 5, 2021 Rick 42 Views 0 Comments activist, advocate, athlete, basketball, dairy free, eat plants, go vegan, icon, leader, legend, olympics, opening ceremony, plant based, plant powered, plant-based athlete, powered by plants, sue bird, superstar, team usa, tokyo olympics, vegan, vegan athlete, vegans of ig

She’s a 4-time Olympic gold medal winner and a 4-time WNBA champion; she was a leader in the push for

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Vibrant NRGizer: Chris Paul

June 11, 2021June 13, 2021 Rick 105 Views 0 Comments athlete, basketball, beyond meat, black owned, black-owned business, chris paul, dairy free, food friday, game changers movie, gopuff, nba, phoenix suns, plant based, plant-based athlete, plant-based diet, plant-based food, playoffs, superstar, vegan, vegan athlete, vegan diet, vegan food, vegan life, vegan lifestyle

When 36-year-old Chris Paul went vegan two years ago, he kept it a secret from his teammates, not wanting to

My First Class

June 3, 2021June 4, 2021 Rick 72 Views 0 Comments athlete, better, college hockey, dairy free, dairy-free athlete, development, friends, friendship, graduation, grow, hockey, hockey photography, ice hockey, improve, mentor, mentorship, plant based, plant-based athlete, skate, tbt, throwback thursday, train, ucla hockey, vegan, vegan athlete, work

“It’s bigger than hockey.” Adam has said those words several times about the friendships that have formed on the ice

The Art of Kaizen

May 24, 2021May 28, 2021 Rick 115 Views 0 Comments athlete, biceps, change, changes, grow, growth, improve, improvement, inspirational, inspired, kaizen, monday motivation, monday vibes, motivated, motivation, motivation monday, motivational, muscle, plant powered, plant-based athlete, plantstrong, strong, vegan, vegan athlete, veganstrong, workout

Kaizen is the Japanese business philosophy of continuous change and improvement, but I embrace the concept for all aspects of

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“Unreal.” That’s how co-captain Billy Zegra

“Unreal.”

That’s how co-captain Billy Zegras described the scene this weekend when 40 hopeful young men showed up to battle for a spot on the 2021-22 UCLA Hockey Club. After two days of tryouts, cuts were made and the roster was trimmed to 23 players ahead of next weekend’s season opening games at Eastern Washington.

Zegras is a senior and has seen the program grow during his tenure. He and co-captain Duke Fishman have an ambitious vision to take Bruins Hockey to the next level. Part of that involved finding a home rink where the team would have pro-level facilities. They found that at The Cube in Valencia.

The players selected to represent UCLA Hockey this season, including sophomore standout Alex Setteducati, moved into their locker room. They now have white unis to go with their traditional powder blue kit. After losing their season last year to COVID, it’s going to be an exciting season for these athletes and I’m proud to be working with the #ColdBrus to be their best as they enter their 95th year. - Rick

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It’s nearing midnight on a Friday night and I’

It’s nearing midnight on a Friday night and I’m in the gym. As I lift, people socialize outside, dressed up after a night out on the town, in pairs or small groups. They’ve been drinking and/or some leave the scent of cannabis as they pass by. Others are barbecuing animal flesh that occasionally wafts into the gym. I’m training alone and the gym is empty besides this #over50 #veganhockeyplayer who will “feast” on a post-workout, plant-based, protein-packed salad.

I’m not immune to thoughts of “Why?” Why do I live, train and eat like this? Why do I make so many sacrifices in order to put in the work to be the best athlete that I can be? The life of an athlete can be a lonely one, and for the great ones, it often is.

Yogananda reminds, “Seclusion is the price of greatness.”

Why do I do what I do? Because I love it. And this quote from one of hockey’s ageless legends mirrors my own story. - Rick

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It makes my head explode every time I open my frid

It makes my head explode every time I open my fridge. Look at all this plastic. Most of it is single-use. We must come up with more sustainable packaging. - Rick

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“Big mistake.” That’s the response of gove

“Big mistake.”

That’s the response of government officials in the Faroe Islands (Danish territory) after 1,428 dolphins were killed in one day. Hunters used jet-skis and small boats to lure a large pod into shallow waters on Sunday and slaughtered them. The entire superpod was killed. This may be the record for the largest cetacean slaughter ever, which included pregnant females and young dolphins.

Because of the immense size of the pod and the chaos the whalers (hunters) caused, no doubt that dolphins suffered unnecessary stress and pain during the massive kill. The entire dolphin hunt is unnecessary. It’s barbaric, inhumane and shameful.

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I really regret this decision. Not the mullet, whi

I really regret this decision. Not the mullet, which was on point for a college hockey player in 1986. Paying to take a picture with a lion cub while working at a music festival in Memphis that was run by the company that owned and operated the Ringling Bros. circus.

I didn’t know any better at the time, but wild animals like this are NOT here for our amusement. This baby was no doubt ripped away from his/her mother prematurely, and the mother and father were most likely torn from their natural habitat in order to become circus “performers.” It’s pure speciesism that humans do this for the purpose of “entertainment.”

Humans were NOT - and never will be - given dominion over the animal kingdom. - Rick

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“It’s the best thing I can ever do to help you

“It’s the best thing I can ever do to help you become a better athlete.”

That powerful realization hit me after a recent 90-minute counseling session with an elite athlete who I’m advising on their transition to becoming a plant-based athlete.

I skate with a lot of young elite athletes, committed to becoming the best they can be as hockey players, some with the goal of going pro. With everything else being relatively equal - strength, speed, skill, power, agility and endurance - what separates one athlete at this level from another is how they recover from training and competition. A plant-based diet minimizes inflammation, reducing muscle soreness and helping the body recover faster, therefore allowing you to train harder and more often than your competition, which ultimately makes you the better athlete.

It’s not about the drills we do together on the ice, or the training we do together off the ice; it’s educating, inspiring and empowering these elite athletes to eat plant based that will do the most to help them become better hockey players. And not just better athletes throughout their athletic careers, but healthier human beings for the rest of their lives. - Rick

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Our country changed forever while I was changing i

Our country changed forever while I was changing into my cycling gear.

It was before 6am as I pulled on my spandex jersey and shorts while watching the Today show as I did before every morning ride in order to find out the temperature outside. I was chomping on a Clif Bar when news broke that an airplane hit the World Trade Center. As I pulled the Velcro tight on my cycling shoes and fastened my helmet, I watched the live report with the camera focused firmly on the twin towers when the second airplane slammed into the building. It was hard to comprehend what was happening and rather robotically, I grabbed my Trek and rushed out the door to meet the team for our normal Tuesday training ride.

The sun had yet to rise while I pedaled briskly to Santa Monica. The unfathomable images of what I’d just witnessed on live television played over and over again in my head. During the ride, some of us spoke of the morning’s events, informing those who didn’t know what occurred. Were these somehow bizarre accidents or was America under attack?

The ride felt “off” as minds raced elsewhere. When I rolled back home around 9am, I didn’t know what news awaited me. Thousands of Americans were dead in the wake of an orchestrated terrorist attack that took place for the first time on American soil. Terrorist attacks like this happened in foreign countries, never here…until September 11, 2001.

There was nothing normal about that training ride. The USA changed forever that morning twenty years ago today and I shall never forget. - Rick

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Thankfully, I’ve never been that low personally,

Thankfully, I’ve never been that low personally, but I’ve been with several loved ones who have been suicidal. It’s not a subject anyone is comfortable talking about, which is why Suicide Prevention Awareness Month is so important.

It’s been a very challenging couple of years with stress (health, work, financial, relationships, political, etc.) that can be relentless. Depression can be crushing and is as contagious as COVID yet there is no vaccine for depression. Lack of human contact and social distancing have fostered feelings of loneliness and isolation. You’re not alone. Help is available.

If you’re struggling, reach out to a friend, family member, teammate, coworker, medical professional, @namicommunicate or me. You matter. You are important. You are loved. And you’re never alone. - Rick

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