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Aimee Mullins was born without fibular bones, and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was an infant. She learned to walk on prosthetics, then to run — competing at the national and international level as a champion sprinter, and setting world records at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta. She never gave up, she got stronger and now she can motivate other people!

Find out more about this amazing person in her three moving talks (at TED) on: running (0:20:47), her 12 pairs of legs (0:10:02) and the recent one on the opportunity of adversity (0:21:58), where she redefines disability. Read more…

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The Vegetarian Diet for Athletes looks like something we were looking for. Recently we highly reduced eating meat. It started as a question of taste, but now it could be described as “a call of the body and the mind“.

After we came back from Argentina nothing could satisfy our meat-demands but Argentinian steaks. The local versions were a way less juicy and without any taste. Then we cut down our meat consumption drastically – because of taste. Later, after about a year of yoga practice, we became more aware of our bodies needs. It turned out, we don’t really need to eat meat to perform well in sports. Actually we are currently doing more, than we used to do, and we are glad to find yet another confirmation of performing on vegetarian/vegan fuel . Side effect of this step is reduction of energy footprint and suffering of animals. Initially it was not so critical for us, but with time it gained in importance.

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You just need feet to run! Read about advantages of forefoot striking barefoot or in minimal footwear and research of evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman at Harvard University, e.g. A softer ride for barefoot runners.

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