In this talk, I will be covering popular topics such as how to get the right nutrients in your diet, reducing body fat using training methods such as HIIT and weight lifting, the benefits of intermittent fasting to increase size and strength and burn body fat quickly as well as having a question and answer session at the end for all your queries.

Fiona Oakes is hard to categorise.  Vegan since the age of 6, she is a triple Guinness World Record holder being the fastest woman to run a Marathon on every Continent plus the North Pole in both running time and days elapsed and an elite Marathoner, having placed highly in some of the World’s most high profile events as well as being a prolific winner of many road races ranging in distance from 5km to Marathon.  She is also an accomplished ultra runner having competed in many of the most gruelling events – including ‘the world’s toughest footrace’ – Marathon des Sables – three times.  Fiona is the founder of Towerhill Stables Animal Sanctuary, established over 20 years ago in order to provide a forever home to animals – both domestic and ex farmed – and is currently caring for over 450 of them.   Fiona is the subject of an upcoming film, Running for Good, being made by the acclaimed Director, Keegan Kuhn –  maker of the current releases Cowspiracy and What the Health – which aims to document a year in her life illustrating how her unique approach allows her to combine top level athletics with the day to day running of her animal sanctuary and public speaking engagements.  Fiona founded The Fiona Oakes Foundation in 2013 to promote veganism through sport and athletic achievement.  Having won many Awards and accolades for both her work with animals, sporting prowess Fiona dedicates her life to inspiring others to adopt an ethical vegan stance either by introducing them to, and allowing them to interact with, the animals at her Sanctuary enabling them to experience, first hand, their different needs, personalities, beauty, innocence and indigence hence enabling them to make the connection as to why it is so wrong to abuse them way.  She also actively advocates and illustrates the viability and sustainability of veganism by her amazing athletic achievements being globally in demand to speak about all her accomplishments on behalf of the animals.

The event will be bodyweight inverted rows. Entrants will try to see how many continuous repetitions they can achieve. Partial reps will not be allowed & the judges may end any event if they feel a safety issue arises. (Either to contestants or the audience)

Females will do the repetitions with the knees bent at 90 degrees. There will be prizes for all entrants.

The event will be bodyweight inverted rows. Entrants will try to see how many continuous repetitions they can achieve. Partial reps will not be allowed & the judges may end any event if they feel a safety issue arises. (Either to contestants or the audience)

Females will do the repetitions with the knees bent at 90 degrees. There will be prizes for all entrants.

A group of high-flying vegan sportspeople discuss their success stories and how eating 100% plant-based helps with optimising their performance and recovery en route to success. 

Tim offers 11 simple changes for you to think about in everyday life that could make you feel healthier and more human. How to sleep, breath, what water to drink amongst other tips.

Paul will discuss how much of what we’re told about sports nutrition (especially relative to strength sports) is complete misinformation which he discovered when he switched from a meat heavy diet to eating completely plant based. He puts forth the case that a vegan diet is not just viable for athletes but is in fact optimal. He also speaks of the latest developments in nutrition science that will highly benefit athletes and non-athletes alike. Includes a Q&A session to finish.

Anthony Mullally is a vegan Rugby Player who plays for the Leeds Rhinos. Anthony will be talking about his journey to a vegan lifestyle and the stigmas that go alongside being a vegan athlete. Some people still find it hard to understand how he continues to and maintain his bodyweight and performance on a plant based diet so Anthony will be talking about the misconceptions of the plant based diet in relation to being an athlete.

In this one hour talk, Kate will be discussing:

–       What exactly is a superfood?
–       Why are they important?
–       Which ones should I take?
–       How much do I need?
–       How should I use them?

Kate has been working with superfoods extensively for over 10 years, and wrote the first superfood book, Raw Magic. 

It is entirely unacceptable for humans to exploit animals in any way whatsoever – whether for food, other products, such as leather, or for entertainment.

The idea of not eating meat is nothing new – Pythagoras was an early advocate of a plant-based diet – but so many of us were brought up to believe that the maintenance of health and fitness can only be achieved on a diet based around animal protein.

We now have incontrovertible evidence that this is entirely incorrect – indeed it is becoming clear that the healthiest of diets is a Whole Food Plant Based Diet.

This means a diet based 100% on plants – and they should be consumed in a form that is as close as possible to how they were grown and harvested. It should include little, if any processed or refined products – for example, no added sugar or oil.

In this talk, I will outline some of the evidence for this.