Blueprint: Build a Bulletproof Body for Extreme Adventure in 365 Days

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Ross Edgley Shares Gruesome Effects of His World Record Swim Attempt". Men's Health. 17 July 2023 . Retrieved 26 August 2023. Your physical fitness will greatly impact How to Adventure. For it’s an unavoidable truth that without a certain level of strength, speed and stamina you will not be able to walk the Great Wall of China, catch waves on Bondi Beach in Sydney, raft the Grand Canyon in Arizona or trek to Machu Picchu in Peru. This book has truly inspired me to strive for adventure, and to take on board the philosophical aspects mentioned as well as the physical ones to gain eudaimonia. Whether it’s climbing a mountain, swimming the English Channel, or a gruelling triathlon , Blueprint will teach you the tried and tested principles of sports science that have been used for decades by Olympians, explorers and adventurers at the limits of peak physical endurance . Blueprint is Ross Edgley's complete training journey that shows you how

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The reason I say ‘recover’ was because after 157 days at sea for the Great British Swim, my body was bruised, battered and plagued with fatigue. And the reason I say ‘rebuild’ was because in many ways I was starting from scratch when it came to my training, and my road to recovery was going to be plagued with doubts, fears and concerns that I wanted to document with 100 per cent transparency.

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On 23 September 2022, Edgley undertook a charity swim in Loch Ness, Scotland. [19] Known for being the largest lake (by volume) in the UK, the water temperature rarely reaches above 5°C (41°F). Which is why, in preparation for the extreme endurance event and to counteract the cold effect of continual immersion in water, he gained 10 kilos of weight by consuming 10,000 calories a day. [20] Training intensity refers to the level of effort a person exerts during exercise relative to his or her maximum effort. He’s an animal ’ CHRIS HEMSWORTH ‘The inner workings of a sports science genius ’ EDDIE HALL, former World’s Strongest Man Ross Edgley has spent decades perfecting the principles and practice of extreme fitness to achieve the impossible . Following a career-threatening injury in 2018, Ross was forced to reassess his training and take the next steps in a lifelong journey of redefining what the human body is capable of. In Blueprint , Ross shares the cutting-edge training program that empowered him to rebuild his body from surgery and a doctor’s gloomy prognosis in just 365 days to complete a world record swim . Grantham force was strong' says record-breaking swimmer Ross Edgley". Grantham Journal. 9 November 2018 . Retrieved 19 November 2019.

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Edgley, Ross. "How I trained to run a triathlon while carrying a tree". GQ . Retrieved 14 November 2018. Taking shelter in a small, semi-permanent settlement of tents, I noticed that the structures themselves closely resembled the traditional tepees used by most nomadic hunter-gatherers. Held together by long poles, the conical-shaped architecture of each tent had a fireplace at its centre that provided warmth and a place to cook as the smoke was carried up and out of the gap in the roof.

This is why the ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus famously once said, ‘The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.’ The segments of personal story really tie in well to the points the author wants to get across and really aid to inspire you, to see what they went through and really imagine what it was like. Also, having seen Ross talk in videos, I like how it is written exactly like he would speak it. It feels like youre having a conversation with him or listening to a story from them and not reading it. After completing the swim in Margate on 4 November 2018, the World Open Water Swimming Association announced it as the World Swim of the Year 2018 and it became officially recognised as "The World's Longest Staged Sea Swim." [17] Talking about his historic swim Edgley said, "It's my hope that people remember the Great British Swim as an example or experiment in both mental and physical fortitude." [18] Length of the English Channel (2018) [ edit ] How Ross Edgley inspires Chris Hemsworth to fitness heroics". British GQ. 20 July 2023 . Retrieved 26 August 2023.

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Years later, the Russian professor Leonid Matveyev was the first to use the term periodisation to plan the phases of an athlete’s training. Studying competitors from the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, he wanted to know why some achieved their personal bests while others didn’t perform to their full potential. He then developed strategies for peaking at the right time, and as a result the concept of periodisation which Flavius Philostratus first developed was brought into the era of the modern Olympic Games. Days later in his diary he expanded on this point and wrote, ‘We must go out and re-ally ourselves to Nature every day. We must make root, send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day. I am sensible that I am imbibing health when I open my mouth to the wind. Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always.’ Not necessarily a large-scale expedition across miles, days, weeks or months, but rather an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking to avoid ‘spiritual decay’. This term was inspired by the 1956 book The Outsider by Colin Wilson who wrote, ‘A man has achieved his present position by being the most aggressive and enterprising creature on earth. And now he has created a comfortable civilisation he faces an unexpected problem ... the comfortable life lowers a man’s resistance so that he sinks into an unheroic sloth ... the comfortable life causes spiritual decay just as soft sweet food causes tooth decay.’ A term that originated in ancient Greece, eudaimonia was a word emphasised by renowned philosophers Plato and Aristotle and for me (and many others) it was a better word for ‘happiness’. This is because today we’re told the overriding rationale for our hobbies, work, relationships and the conduct of our daily lives is the pursuit of happiness. But ancient Greek philosophers believed this was too simplistic and the very term had many shortcomings. He later gained a sports scholarship to study at Loughborough University's School of Sport and Exercise Science, [10] where he continued to train at the British Swimming National Centre. A year into his scholarship, Edgley then retired from international competition and decided to transition into ultra-distance sea swimming instead, which the university supported through the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine. [11]How and Why I'm Attempting The World's Longest Rope Climb (8 8 48m)". Rossedgley.com . Retrieved 24 February 2020. Yes, of course, some adventures require no training. But for the bigger and bolder expeditions that are wrapped in eudaimonia and eustress and require strength, speed and stamina, this book will explain how the Periodisation of Adventure can help. His name was Nikolai Mikhailovich. Standing 5 ft 5 in tall and 65 years old, like most Evenki he was deceptively strong for his small frame and had been utterly weathered by the Siberian wilderness, years and miles of wisdom visibly etched into the wrinkles on his face. Not speaking a word of English (and with my grasp of the Evenki language still woefully poor) we relied heavily on the translation skills of his right-hand man, Vadik. At 53, he’d also been visibly shaped by the snow and ice throughout the years, but had previous experience assisting American scientists researching climate change throughout the Arctic in the late 1990s. Being very intelligent, he then self-taught himself English so he’d be better equipped to lead foreigners through his homeland and now, years later, he was doing it again with an utterly clueless (yet highly keen) Englishman. The focus is on building on your ‘athletic base’ as the volume of training is kept high and the intensity of training is incrementally increased. At this point, training starts to replicate your chosen sport or adventure more closely as you train technique and specific energy systems based on the teachings of the Russian Conjugate Sequence System of the 1960s and early 1970s and the Process of Achieving Sports Mastery. Put simply, this is a method, theory and philosophy of training that helps athletes specialise and refine their specific skills. 4. SUMMER (PEAK)