
From overweight alcoholic to ultra-endurance athlete, Rich Roll's transformation defies limits. Named one of "25 Fittest Men" by Men's Fitness, his plant-based journey proves reinvention is possible at any age. What could you achieve if you rejected your own limitations?
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Picture a 39-year-old lawyer, successful by every conventional measure, stopping halfway up his own staircase-not to answer a phone or tie a shoe, but because he physically cannot continue. Eight stairs. That's all it takes to leave him winded, nauseous, and confronting a terrifying vision: his daughter's wedding day, decades from now, with one conspicuous absence. Him. This moment of reckoning didn't arrive with fanfare or drama. It came in the quiet darkness of an ordinary Tuesday night, fueled by cheeseburgers and self-deception. What happened next defies the typical midlife crisis narrative. This isn't a story about buying a sports car or finding religion. It's about a former Olympic-hopeful swimmer who drowned in alcohol and junk food, only to resurface as one of the world's most formidable ultra-endurance athletes. The transformation required more than willpower-it demanded a complete dismantling of identity itself. Water was the first language, learned before walking. Tossed into the deep end as a diapered infant, the instinct wasn't fear but joy-a smile that asked "again?" This frail, cross-eyed child wearing an eye patch and orthodontic headgear became an unlikely athlete, discovering in swimming what he couldn't find on playgrounds where he was always picked last.
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco

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