Ross Edgley Boeken

Bestselling author and adventurer Ross Edgley has dedicated years to studying resilience, culminating in his historic achievement as the first person to swim around Great Britain while breaking multiple world records. In this insightful work, he delves into mental strength, stoicism, and the training required to forge an unbreakable body. Known for remarkable feats, such as running a marathon while pulling a 1.4-tonne car and climbing a rope the height of Everest, Ross has also embraced unique experiences, including living with Yamabushi warrior monks in Japan and enduring Shamanic pain rituals in the Amazon jungle. His 1,780-mile swim around Great Britain lasted 157 days, during which he faced challenges like giant jellyfish, arctic storms, and polluted waters, pushing his limits to the extreme. Following his Sunday Times bestseller, The World's Fittest Book, which examined physical fitness, Ross now focuses on the mental aspects of endurance. He studies the performance of extreme athletes, military personnel, and psychologists to uncover the secrets of mental fitness. This groundbreaking work offers a new understanding of human potential and provides a blueprint for becoming tougher and more resilient, empowering readers to face any challenge with a disciplined mindset.

The World's Fittest Book is poised to be an essential resource for fitness enthusiasts, serving as a comprehensive guide to building muscle, losing fat, and maximizing physical potential. It features workouts the author has tested while pursuing multiple world records, making it an invaluable training tool. This book uniquely combines insights from Olympic and World Champions, providing an easy-to-follow format for anyone looking to make lasting changes in their fitness and nutrition. Readers will discover how to maintain body fat below 10% while enjoying treats like chocolate, increase muscle mass by 27% with heavyweight champion tips, enhance speed by 10% through Olympic sprinter techniques, and lift weights previously thought impossible with guidance from the world’s strongest men. Additionally, it offers strategies to improve endurance capacity by 60%, drawing from the expertise of multi-sport champions. The culmination of over a decade of research, this guide offers eclectic and comprehensive fitness wisdom. Each chapter includes digestible workouts and can be read independently, while also providing the science and stories behind the routines. It caters to both casual fitness enthusiasts seeking clarity and seasoned athletes looking for ways to overcome plateaus. This book promises to transform your understanding of fitness and guide you on your journey to achieving your desired fitness level.

From world-renowned adventurer and bestselling author of The Art of Resilience and The World's Fittest Book, comes the ultimate blueprint to building a bulletproof body. 'He's an animal' CHRIS HEMSWORTH 'The inner workings of a sports science genius' EDDIE HALL, former World's Strongest Man

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"From world-renowned adventurer and bestselling author of The Art of Resilience and The World's Fittest Book, comes the ultimate blueprint to (re)building a bulletproof body. 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. 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 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. Ross is your elite guide to achieving the impossible in the gym and beyond. 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"--Publisher's description

2865 Kilometer, 157 Tage, arktische Stürme, gigantische Quallen, verschmutzte Gewässer und ein völlig geschundener Körper – wenn jemand bewiesen hat, dass mit Willensstärke und Widerstandskraft alles möglich ist, dann ist es Ross Edgley, der als erster Mensch einmal um Großbritannien geschwommen ist. In 22 Lektionen erzählt der Bestsellerautor und Extremsportler vom spannenden Weg zu seinem neuesten Weltrekord und verrät, welche Strategien und Trainingsmethoden er eingesetzt hat, um die Strapazen durchzustehen und sein Ziel zu erreichen. Über Jahre hat er Sportwissenschaftler, Psychologen und Athleten befragt und ihre Techniken, Tricks und Performance analysiert, um die einzigartige Mischung aus mentaler Stärke, stoischer Gelassenheit und körperlicher Fitness zu entwickeln, die ihn unbesiegbar machte. Seine Geschichte zeigt, wozu der Mensch körperlich und geistig fähig ist – und wie auch du jede Herausforderung erfolgreich meistern kannst.

Schneller. Stärker. Fitter. Der Sportenthusiast und mehrfache Weltrekordhalter Ross Edgley hat das vielseitigste Fitnessbuch aller Zeiten geschrieben. Zehn Jahre reiste er um die Welt und traf Olympiasieger, Weltrekordhalter und Sportlegenden: Er kämpfte mit wilden Stieren bei den Chagra-Cowboys in den ecuadorianischen Anden, ging mit den japanischen Yamabushi-Kriegermönchen auf Pilgerreise, nahm ein Eisbad mit »Iceman« Wim Hof, arbeitete an seiner Schnelligkeit mit Sprinterlegende Linford Christie, lernte die Erfolgsgeheimnisse der berühmten Ruderer der Cambridge University kennen und trainierte mit russischen Strongmen, Royal Marines und den besten Powerliftern der Welt. Basierend auf ihren erprobten Methoden schuf er seine Fitness- und Ernährungsgesetze, mit denen auch Sie das Maximum aus sich herausholen können. Seine Trainingsprinzipien vereinen das Wissen herausragender Athleten mit wissenschaftlicher Forschung und zeigen, wie es möglich ist, erfolgreicher als je zuvor Körperfett zu reduzieren, Muskelmasse aufzubauen und maximal fit zu werden.

Ross Edgley przedstawia najlepszą książkę kucharską poświęconą fitnessowi! Ta pozycja sprawi, że poczujesz się silniejszy, zdrowszy i w lepszej formie niż kiedykolwiek w życiu. Osiągaj oczekiwane rezultaty i dostarcz organizmowi niezbędne kalorie. W świecie, w którym ponad 90 procent diet kończy się niepowodzeniem, Ross postanowił zbadać sportowców ekstremalnych, specjalistów od fitnessu czy zawodowych żołnierzy, aby dowiedzieć się, czego dokładnie potrzebuje ludzki organizm do optymalizacji wyników i wykorzystania pełni możliwości. Pierwszy człowiek, który opłynął Wielką Brytanię, dzieli się ponad setką wypróbowanych i przetestowanych dań. Przepisy są zbilansowane pod kątem kalorii i potrzeb sportowca. Zamiast stosować dietę pudełkową, sam przygotuj proste i smaczne posiłki. Silniejszy każdego dnia… w kuchni to niezbędny towarzysz sprawniejszego i szczęśliwszego Ciebie. I pamiętaj: Twoja kuchnia nie musi być nudna!