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A Great British swim | LboroGameChangers | Loughborough University". www.lboro.ac.uk . Retrieved 14 March 2021. 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)This book is different and takes the proven principle of periodisation and applies it to the great outdoors so you can increase your physical (and mental) capacity for a specific adventure. ADVENTURE: 1 YEAR – MACROCYCLE The focus is on ‘active recovery’ where both the volume and intensity of training is kept low, allowing the mind and body time to rest. 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. 2. WINTER (BASE) Macaluso, Filippo; Barone, Rosario; Isaacs, Ashwin W.; Farina, Felicia; Morici, Giuseppe; Di Felice, Valentina (December 2013). "Heat stroke risk for open-water swimmers during long-distance events". Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. 24 (4): 362–365. doi: 10.1016/j.wem.2013.04.008. ISSN 1545-1534. PMID 23891244. 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.’

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Edgley, Ross (2020). The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-835698-9. Yes, of course, some adventures require no training. But for the bigger and bolder expeditions that are wrapped in eudaimonia and eustress and require strength, speed and stamina, this book will explain how the Periodisation of Adventure can help. Thankfully, before the sun began to set, I managed to drag the last (and most reluctant) reindeer into its enclosure. 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. Born into a sporting family (his father was a tennis coach, his mother was a sprinter and his grand parents were marathon runners and in the military), he studied at Kings Grammar School Grantham, later graduated from Loughborough University's School of Sport and Exercise Science and has since spent 20 years travelling the world as an athlete adventurer raising money for environmental charities. To date, he has:July 2023 confirmed as hottest month on record". public.wmo.int. 8 August 2023 . Retrieved 26 August 2023. It’s March 2008 and I am a (trainee) Evenki reindeer herder. Geographically, I’m in the Russian wilderness high above the Arctic Circle, but physically I am somewhere between frostbite and exhaustion. For the past five days we’ve travelled 145 miles across bleak, mountainous terrain called a tundra (specifically within Yakutia Siberia). Moving by foot, sled and snow our goal was simple: move eighty precious reindeer to new pastures and protect them within one of the world’s most hostile environments. Taking shelter in a small, semi-permanent settlement of tents, I noticed that the structures themselves closely resembled the traditional tepees used by most nomadic hunter-gatherers. Held together by long poles, the conical-shaped architecture of each tent had a fireplace at its centre that provided warmth and a place to cook as the smoke was carried up and out of the gap in the roof. Not necessarily a large-scale expedition across miles, days, weeks or months, but rather an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking to avoid ‘spiritual decay’. This term was inspired by the 1956 book The Outsider by Colin Wilson who wrote, ‘A man has achieved his present position by being the most aggressive and enterprising creature on earth. And now he has created a comfortable civilisation he faces an unexpected problem ... the comfortable life lowers a man’s resistance so that he sinks into an unheroic sloth ... the comfortable life causes spiritual decay just as soft sweet food causes tooth decay.’

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Even in life, this is why Plato and Aristotle did not believe the purpose was to be happy – the purpose was to pursue eudaimonia. All because this word encourages us to trust that many of life’s most worthwhile projects will come with a sizeable serving of suffering and struggle but are worth pursuing nevertheless. 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. Ross Edgley sets record for round Great Britain swim". BBC. 4 November 2018 . Retrieved 4 November 2018.This is fundamentally why witnessing a sunrise following a 20 km vertical hike up a mountain is so much more fulfilling than watching it on a screen from the comfort of your sofa. In the Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837–1861 the author, considered to be one of America’s great modern philosophers, wrote about his daily practices one Christmas Day of 1856 when he said, ‘Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.’

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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." [21] [22] The swim was done in support of Parley for the Oceans (a nonprofit environmental organisation that focuses on ocean conservation), so was not governed by any swimming authority. The route and precise distance are unknown due to medical intervention, but Ross remains the only person to survive swimming in the cold waters of Loch Ness for more than 52 hours. 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. 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.More than a thousand years later, on 10 April 1899, the great American President Theodore Roosevelt stated in his famous speech ‘The Strenuous Life’: ‘I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.’ Nikolai and Vadik conferred among themselves until deciding it was time I attempted to master another nomadic tradition that would both help the herd and combat climate change. Interestingly, this method of 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. This is why the famous Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman known as Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) once said, ‘Let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow Nature, all is easy and unobstructed; but if we combat Nature, our life differs not a whit from that of men who row against the current.’ 1. AUTUMN (RECOVER)