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 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 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. ‘You understand how he built a level of endurance that verges on superhuman’ EDDIE HALL, The World’s Strongest Man in 2017 Ross Edgley is a bestselling author, award-winning adventurer and leading international expert on resilience. 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. • 120k copies of Sunday Times Bestselling THE ART OF RESILIENCE sold in first 9 months of publication, of which a significant chunk in audio (43k). • Instagram 705k (of which 15% US, 10% Australia); Twitter 125k; Facebook 310k: combined 1M reach. • Walking, hiking, jogging, trail running, cycling, climbing and wild swimming – there has been an increased uptake in exercise outdoors as people seek a renewed connection with nature. There was a 400% increase in the number of outdoor classes being offered by studios on ClassPass in 2020 alone. BLUEPRINT is structured around Ross’ own wild adventures, in the Namibian desert and the icy steppes of Siberia, and provides guidance on how to train for the extreme outdoors. • Limitless, an original National Geographic documentary that will air on Disney+ at the same time as this book’s publication, follows Chris Hemsworth on his journey to train for an ice swim in the North Sea. Ross Edgley is his trainer and features in the documentary. • Ross is currently in talks with National Geographic about a historic first swim in the Northwest Sea Passage to highlight the melting arctic ice. This swim would be in Aug-Sep (TBC) to coincide with publication. • ‘Incredible individual’ CHRIS HEMSWORTH Competition: The Wim Hof Method; The Year One Challenge; Bigger Leaner Stronger; The Furious Method; What Doesn’t Kill Us; The Running World; The 24/7 Body;Rebuilding Milo;Above the Clouds. Wim Hof; Michael Matthews; Tyson Fury; Scott Carney; Nick Butter; Matt Morsia; Dr Aaron Horschig;Killian Jornet
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