20-WÖCHIGES TRAININGSPROGRAMM FÜR EINEN MARATHON
DAS EINFACHSTE KETTLEBELL-WORKOUT DER WELT
RUDER-WORKOUT MIT 1300 WIEDERHOLUNGEN
ZWÖLFWÖCHIGES KRAFTTRAINING
ZWÖLFWÖCHIGES WO-AUCH-IMMER-WORKOUT MIT DEM EIGENEN KÖRPERGEWICHT
ZWÖLFWÖCHIGES WORKOUT FÜR SCHNELLIGKEIT UND SCHNELLKRAFT
AÇAI-BOWL
ENERGY BALLS
ERDNUSSBUTTER-CUPS MIT DUNKLER SCHOKOLADE
FRÜHSTÜCKSSCHÜSSEL MIT CHIA-SAMEN
GRANOLA-ENERGIERIEGEL
HARISSA-HÄHNCHEN MIT KOKOSREIS UND GEBRATENEM GEMÜSE
KETO-TACO-BOWL
PROTEIN-BROWNIE MIT DUNKLER SCHOKOLADE
PROTEIN-PANCAKES
STEAK
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Ross Edgley ist Sportler, Abenteurer und Autor, dessen jahrzehntelange Karriere sich über jeden vorstellbaren Bereich des Sports, der Fitness und der Ernährung erstreckt. Er hat auf der ganzen Welt Rekorde aufgestellt und wird als »The World’s Most Travelled Fitness Expert« (GQ, 2016) bezeichnet: als der am weitesten gereiste Fitnessexperte der Welt. Ross wurde 2016 von Askmen.com in der Liste der World’s 50 Top Fittest Men aufgeführt, nachdem er
Er ist Begründer der Training-App Primal 9 bei Menshealth.com, die 2017 die meisten Downloads verzeichnete, sowie Mitbegründer von Europas innovativster Sporternährungsmarke (THE PROTEIN WORKS™). Außerdem ist er stolzer Absolvent der weltbekannten School of Sport and Exercise Science der Loughborough University in London, England. Ross hat ein »Gräuel gegen den Durschnitt« und will mit seiner gesamten Arbeit Millionen Mitmenschen beibringen, dass der menschliche Körper weitaus stärker und mächtiger ist, als uns oftmals glauben gemacht wird.
Der Titel der Originalausgabe dieses Buches, The World‘s Fittest Book, ist sehr gewagt, aber er bezieht sich nicht auf mich oder auf das, was ich geleistet habe. Vielmehr ist er eine Würdigung an die Olympioniken, die World Champions, die Royal Marines und an die Genies der Kochkunst, die alle so wohlwollend zu den Erkenntnissen dieses Buches beigetragen haben. Jeder von ihnen nährte meine Vision, etwas zu erschaffen, das Millionen Menschen weiterbilden und kräftigen würde, und ohne ihre Hilfe gäbe es dieses Buch nicht. Deshalb werde ich jedem einzelnen Menschen, den du hier kennengelernt hast, ewig dankbar sein.
Das Buch wurde nur durch die fantastischen Menschen möglich, die ich kennenlernen, mit denen ich trainieren oder auf Reisen gehen durfte. Im Grunde ist es ein Nebenprodukt aus all dem Fachwissen, das sie mir in selbstloser Weise überlassen haben, und dieses Fachwissen beginnt mit dem immens talentierten Team von Fotografen der hier gezeigten Bilder. Mein Dank geht an James Appleton, Simon Howard, Harvey Gibson, Chris Bailey und Richard Hunter. Ich danke euch, dass ihr mir mit euren Kameras über Berge, durch Seen und in die Fitnessstudios dieser Welt gefolgt seid, um dieses Buch ins Leben zu rufen.
Meine Familie und meine Freunde halfen mir, jedes Abenteuer, auf das ich mich einließ, auszuhecken, zu planen und oft auch zu Ende zu bringen. Ihren Anfang nahmen diese Abenteuer in der Regel mit einer Idee, die beim Sonntagsbraten ausgebrütet wurde. Am Ende sah es dann so aus, dass meine Familie mit im Support-Boot saß und gegen Seekrankheit und knapp zwei Meter hohe Wellen in der Karibischen See ankämpfen musste, während ich mit einem an meiner Badehose befestigten Baumstamm im Wasser schwamm. Diese Art des selbstlosen Engagements zeigt, wie glücklich ich bin, diese Menschen in meinem Leben zu haben.
Ich danke Mark, Nick, Karl, Laura und dem Team von THE PROTEIN WORKS™; ich glaube nicht, dass es eine andere Firma in der Welt gibt, die die Teilnahme an einem Triathlon mit einem Baum auf dem Rücken oder einen Marathon mit einem Auto im Schlepptau als Teil deines Jobs so ungebremst unterstützt. Für eure Hilfe bei jedem meiner verrückten Abenteuer (und einer endlosen Versorgung mit Protein-Brownies) möchte ich ein großes Dankeschön sagen.
Schließlich möchte ich mich bei dem tollen Verlagsteam bei Little, Brown bedanken. Ohne dessen Hilfe würde das gesamte Buch nur als Kritzeleien in meinem Reisetagebuch sowie als ein zehn Jahre altes Dokument auf meinem Laptop existieren. Weil aber Adam Strange die engelhafte Geduld aufbrachte, sich mehr als 200 000 Wörter meines Sinnierens über Fitness und Ernährung durchzulesen, Alex Cooper es auf sich nahm, mit mir durch das Land zu reisen und Studios zu besuchen, und Stephanie, Duncan, Abby, Sian, Alison und das gesamte Team nichts dagegen einzuwenden hatten, mit mir eine Telefonkonferenz abzuhalten, während ich auf einem Spinning-Bike oder an der Seite eines Beckens bei einem 30-Kilometer-Schwimmens saß, wurde mein Traum, dieses Buch zu verlegen, Wirklichkeit.
»Fitness ist
eine Reise, die
jeder beginnen,
aber niemand
beenden sollte.«
ROSS EDGLEY
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DAS GESETZ DER KÖRPERGRUNDLAGEN
“WENN DU LUFTSCHLÖSSER
GEBAUT HAST, MUSS DIE ARBEIT
NICHT UMSONST GEWESEN SEIN;
DORT GEHÖREN SIE HIN. JETZT
GILT ES, FUNDAMENTE DARUNTER
ZU BAUEN.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
JEDEN SPORT MEISTERN
Es ist der 21. April 2008, einen Monat nach meinem Aufenthalt bei den Cowboys von Cotopaxi.
Ich kann mich gut an diesen Tag erinnern. Es war der Tag, an dem ich das Geheimnis erfuhr, wie man jeden Sport meistert.
Ich habe einen alkoholberauschten Aufenthalt in Ecuador überlebt (meine Leber ist sich immer noch nicht sicher, was eigentlich los war), danach einen Monat mit den Rentier-Ewenken in Sibirien verbracht (meine Finger und meine Nase sind immer noch dabei aufzutauen) und bin jetzt auf dem Weg zu einem Retro-Fitnessstudio aus Sowjetzeiten.
Warum eine weitere, absolut willkürlich erscheinende Reise? Weil ich schon immer von den Kraft- und Konditionsgeheimnissen Osteuropas fasziniert war. Nachdem ich also eingeladen war, zusammen mit einem berühmten Ex-Soldaten und heutigen Ringkämpfer zu trainieren, würde ich mir diese tolle Gelegenheit wohl kaum entgehen lassen. Daher suchte ich, der noch nie ein Wort Russisch gesprochen und nie einen Ringkampf absolviert hatte, jenen Mann auf, den man Nikolai nannte.
Ich sollte an dieser Stelle darauf hinweisen, dass ich absolut null Ahnung hatte. Klar, in den vergangenen vier Jahren hatte ich in den gemütlichen Räumen der Loughborough University Sportwissenschaften studiert, aber das brachte mir hier draußen nichts. Hier war das ländliche Russland. Hier war es kalt, rau, und mein akademischer Grad interessierte niemanden.