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

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He later joked during a talk with GQ Magazine that although it had, "Quickly (and unintentionally) turned into the world's hottest lake swim. As a sport and fitness student much of his sports science theorising is really well presented but there were points where, even for me, I found myself lost in jargon. Having read the pages where he was training Brooker, it seems obvious that Edgely would be tacitly supportive of anyone taking a selective approach to his recommendations for injury or medical reasons as I am. It's one of these conditions that is now emerging as common and previously underdiagnosed, and not everyone with it is or has been double-jointed; I never was.

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Although stress often comes with negative connotations, science shows a small dosage in our lives can often be a good thing as a catalyst for growth and provides a powerful motivation to act. By relying too heavily on the word ‘happiness’ we are frequently (and wrongly) programmed to avoid discomfort, fatigue, fear and testing situations. But there is other stuff here which is incredibly useful for me, perhaps especially the serape effect and the idea of an individual swimming style to take account of old injuries. After 52 hours and 39 minutes he was forced to end his swim early due to the onset of cellulitis and hypothermia and was taken to hospital where he messaged: "As you can probably tell the swim didn’t entirely go to plan, but the awareness raised for the charity was immense which makes the cellulitis and lost skin worth it. Even in life, this is why Plato and Aristotle did not believe the purpose was to be happy – the purpose was to pursue eudaimonia.

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.

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Speaking to Men's Health in 2019, Edgley admitted his time spent in the North Sea washed up some interesting theories. These could range from creating a new business, building your dream house or migrating reindeer 180 miles across some of the deadliest terrain Mother Nature has ever created. Bruised and battered from being ‘dry humped’ by a herd of reindeer, I then walked over to the chief of our brigade for further instructions. 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. He holds multiple world records and is known for undertaking athletic adventures around the globe in some of the most hostile conditions ever recorded on earth.A book for those who know what they're doing; inspiring now that I understand my own capabilities and limitations. 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. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Featuring almost 30 tailored workouts for different phases of training, packed with digestible sports science to help you optimise your workouts, and interspersed with Ross' own daring adventures across the world, Blueprint is the ultimate guide to optimising your time and training to make the impossible possible. Much like The World's Fittest Book, this is repetitive - often relaying a quote statistic or name two or three times in the same number of pages.

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At time of reading and listening to Blueprint (I switched between text and audio depending what I was doing) I was recovering from three different sports injuries, plus working on a long-term muscle imbalance on another joint. Instead, be specific with concurrent training: do a squat rack strength workout, recover, then spend an hour on the bike the next day. Changing your training with the changing of the seasons was partly inspired by ancient philosophy that believed the best plans were those that worked in harmony with nature. Training intensity refers to the level of effort a person exerts during exercise relative to his or her maximum effort.

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. 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. If I'd got hold of it in my mid twenties, when my strength was at its peak so far and I was benching more than my own bodyweight (as a woman) - and I felt I had few reasons to be cautious with this type of stuff because I was so strong - I probably would have made my bad shoulder even worse than it was already.

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Dive into Edgley's training history and his decision to become bigger and broader becomes a little easier to understand. We have known this since the ancient Greek Olympics when the philosopher Flavius Philostratus (170–245 CE) described how the greatest athletes of antiquity would plan their entire year’s training down to the finest detail. The principles that Ross goes through about how to train better are great and ones that I could take and apply to my own training. Whatever it is, it will require Edgley to be built like a submarine, which is why, Operation Chonky is on.Blueprint is Ross Edgley's complete training journey that shows you how to: Divide a 365-day training plan into seasons (winter, spring, summer and autumn) Rebuild your body using evolutionary medicine Build a superhuman work capacity with forgotten Spartan-style training Gain bulletproof resilience through Soviet-inspired strength training Boost your aerobic base with Olympian techniques Blueprint applies the exact same principles that enabled Ross to complete extreme feats such as the World's Longest Sea Swim, World's Longest Rope Climb, World's Heaviest Triathlon and World's Strongest Marathon. 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. 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.