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

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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. Although this periodised plan is typically adopted by elite-level athletes, it’s useful when applying these sports-science principles to adventure, too. 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.

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A book for those who know what they're doing; inspiring now that I understand my own capabilities and limitations.

Grantham's Ross Edgely makes second attempt at longest non-stop lake swim". BBC News. 14 July 2023 . Retrieved 26 August 2023.

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Edgley was born into a sporting family in Grantham, Lincolnshire. [8] His father was a tennis coach and his mother was a sprinter. [9] Although playing many sports as a child (football, rugby, trail running and tennis), he specialised in swimming and water polo and represented his country internationally at junior level whilst studying at King's Grammar School in Grantham, England. [ citation needed] 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. 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.’ a b Magra, Iliana (4 November 2018). "First Known Swimmer to Circumnavigate Britain Spent 5 Months at Sea". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 16 September 2020. 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.Fitzgerald, Quinn (1 January 2019). "Ross Edgley's Great British Swim Voted 2018 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year". WOWSA . Retrieved 16 September 2020. Grantham's Ross Edgley ends non-stop Loch Ness swim BBC News, 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022 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 ] It is generally accepted that a microcycle can range from a few days to 14 days in length ¹⁰ with the most common length being 7 days. ADVENTURE: 4 SEASONS – MESOCYCLE The focus is to create an ‘athletic base’ with a high volume of training at a low intensity while also improving work capacity (the body’s ability to perform and positively tolerate training of a given intensity or duration). This is achieved through a system of training called General Physical Preparedness (targeted at strength and endurance) that was pioneered in the old Soviet Union (1922–91), but is done under conditions that take inspiration from the Spartan warrior society of ancient Greece (431–404 CE) to build mental resilience as well as work capacity. 3. SPRING (BUILD)

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Man completes marathon in 19 hours – pulling a 1,400kg Mini car". The Telegraph. 24 January 2016 . Retrieved 24 February 2020. 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. This is based on the work of Hungarian physician Hans Selye (1950) who stated certain stress, which he called eustress (from the Greek prefix eu- meaning ‘good’), can be a motivating force to move faster, further and into uncharted territory where lives are enriched by new experiences. In fact, this type of stress empowers you to grow in three areas: How and Why I'm Attempting The World's Longest Rope Climb (8 8 48m)". Rossedgley.com . Retrieved 24 February 2020. In summary, it was the work of Plato, Aristotle, Roosevelt and Thoreau (along with my time with the Evenki in 2008) that taught me Why We Adventure to combat ‘spiritual decay’. But it took me over a decade to combine their teachings and philosophies with sports science to produce a systematic, structured and scientific way to train for an expedition and to truly understand How to Adventure. Part 2 | How to Adventure - ‘There is no blueprint when attempting the impossible. You must create your own.’ What I learnt from climbing a rope repeatedly until I'd scaled the height of Everest". GQ. 28 April 2016 . Retrieved 24 February 2020.

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] Scheduling sleep is critical during this time, as well as understanding ancient and modern sports rehabilitation practices, and the power of strength training and theories in evolutionary medicine, to rebuild the durability of the joints, muscles and tendons. 4. Winter (base) Yes, maybe not a large-scale expedition, but (whether biologically wired or not) everyone needs a small serving of risk, excitement and eustress within the great outdoors for reasons related to sports science, psychology and philosophy.