I really enjoyed this read, Ross is a great adventurer and both his stories and knowledge make this a fascinating read. It feels like youre having a conversation with him or listening to a story from them and not reading it. Ross Edgley is a bestselling author, award-winning adventurer and leading international expert on resilience.

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Over the years, many periodisation paradigms ³ have been proposed across different sports,⁴ with different athletes⁵ of different ages. Even in life, this is why Plato and Aristotle did not believe the purpose was to be happy – the purpose was to pursue eudaimonia. Slumped into a comfortable mess by the fire, I was immediately surrounded by the brigade’s children who found my beard somewhat of a novelty act, as most Evenki are cleanly shaven.So often we’re unaware of the hours of training, failures and injuries that had to happen for those expeditions to be successful. What happened next is hard to describe, but there was a ‘pop’ followed by a ‘crunch’, which showed the procedure was working but not yet complete.

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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. Likewise I can see how the recovery and build mesocycles (training periodisations) may need to be longer for someone with injury issues or with a low level of fitness, and that there is no need for everyone to stick rigidly to the timescales the author uses himself, as a top endurance athlete. 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.

Going from being unable to run, swim or bench to deadlifting over 180kg, completing a 17 minute 34 second 5km run and doing some insane 10km swim time is just inspiring. Frankly, I am happy with the things I've taken from this book and applied to my own training and philosophy. In 2019, he coached 10 celebrities (who were previously unable to swim) to attempt a 21 mile (34km) relay across the English Channel to raise money for the charity Stand Up to Cancer. Like all of Ross' books, there's a number of references to the many techniques he's learnt both old and new.

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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.Despite failing to complete the swim due to weather conditions (only 5km from shore), the series was, "a summer hit for Channel 4, averaging around 2 million viewers across its four-episode run" raising thousands for charity.

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The focus is on “peaking” as the volume of training is reduced but the intensity is increased, while ensuring you’re recovering as hard as you train.He is also the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The World's Fittest Book and The Art of Resilience, and is renowned for his gruelling athletic adventures, the most recent of which saw him become the first swimmer ever to circumnavigate mainland Britain. This is because on day six we reached our ultimate destination where the reindeer would stay throughout spring. g. "for x number of weeks I could only do these things"; "by this point I could also do those"; "my partner helped with y and z", but it's more than I've read anywhere else so far. This rule follows a study carried out by the University of Otago in New Zealand that was conducted in collaboration with FINA, the International Olympic Committee and the International Triathlon Union today. Moments later, a massive male reindeer with the largest testicles I’ve ever seen was laid on the floor and his legs spread apart and held down by members of the brigade.