Name: Finding Ultra
ISBN: 9780307952202

Rich Roll

Recounts how the author, after realizing the daunting state of his health at age forty, overcame physical challenges and alcoholism over the course of two years while training for Hawaii's elite Ultraman competition.

Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Finding Ultra

matej yangwao

** spoiler alert **
           Hence I sense that narration is there and messaging trying to be well crafted, didn't fit my style of writing I prefer, however drafted cause is quite important for lot of peers around me.
Feels bit try hard, promote plantpower diet?

≥Too many things have conditioned us to make it very difficult to ignore; processed foods with additives dominate every supermarket, and the sale of carbonated drinks is at an all-time high.

≥It's never too late to achieve our goals once we set our heart to them.

≥It is crucial to realize that dieting isn’t the same as starvation.

≥Alcohol gives us short-term gains by changing the course of our lives and giving us a profound warmth that makes us feel better.

≥The problem with alcohol is that it provides a temporary feeling of well-being

≥When we get addicted to anything, our willpower is weakened, making it harder to quit what we are addicted to.

Ozge Kara

I was positively surprised with how well this book was written. The only part I didn’t enjoy was the last “self-help” style chapter. I do not like self-help books. Also obviously I am not able to afford any of the things he mention in the book, especially his plant based diet. Hell, I can’t even afford an online tri coach. But the parts about his life, early childhood, struggles with alcoholism and his path to ultra man was very well written and inspiring. And I do think there were couple of tips here and there like the power of meditation. 

I read a lot of bad reviews and of course the guy is talking about and bragging about himself, it is a book about him. So I think it is a bit unfair judgement. Also he do admits that he was an insufferable jerk at times. In the end maybe it left a good effect on me because I literally had zero expectations from the book.

Shannon Archer

It's an average read. The first half is a half decent partial biography the rest a collection of unstructured self help stuff not worth reading. Bottom of my list for these kinda books.

Scott Wilson

A quick and interesting read on the challenges one man overcomes to get back on track. The author (Rich Roll) went from shy adolescent boy to the top of the world in swimming and education only to find his world crumbles (you'll have to read the book to find out why).

Now at middle age, Rich finds himself overweight, out of shape, and struggling to understand how he got there.

The majority of the book covers how Rich turns his life around again and completes what can only be described as torture on his body given the grueling pace; but also salve for his soul given the beautiful places visited both in person but also in his mind.

What I LOVED about this book was the sheer determination, guts and moxy needed to get where he ultimately ends up. What I DISLIKED about this book was the author appears to now be in the business of selling his nutritional solution. I very much disliked the intrusion of the sales pitch into the story - but ultimately loved the turn around.

Nadine 

Lose weight, change your diet and find your inner jerk.

There’s a reason there are so few people around doing this type of thing at mid-life and beyond - it’s because they’re absorbed with nurturing others - children, spouses, the elderly in their lives. 
Want to be ripped - nurture yourself and expect others to do so and lose your tools every time things don’t go according to plan or you’re “forced” to eat a suboptimal diet due to someone else screwing up, or an expensive part goes missing to a bike that costs more than most folks cars. 
Not going to be able to finish the last chapters of this self-aggrandising repetitive drivel.

Jeni Enjaian

This book struggled to find an identity and never landed on something. It bounced between a memoir describing Roll's journey down into addiction and up into recovery-I found this portion fascinating and worth the read-an advertisement for veganism and a self help book. The latter portions I did not enjoy as much. Oh! I forgot. He also had a section describing his ultraman and EPIC5 adventures. Yeah...not a well written book.

Finding Ultra Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

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