The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body

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Incredible individual, incredible book, incredible story. CHRIS HEMSWORTH

A hero who is as humble as he is resilient testament to a never give up spirit! BEAR GRYLLS

From reading this book, the message that comes shining through is this: you can achieve anything. ANT MIDDLETON
Bestselling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studyingthe art of resiliencefor years, applying all he has learned to become the first person in history to swim around Great Britain, breaking multiple world records. Now Ross focuses on mental strength, stoicism and the training needed to create an unbreakable body.

Ross Edgley famously ran a marathon pulling a 1.4-tonne car and climbed a rope the height of Everest (8,848m), after living withYamabushi warrior monks in Japan and partaking in Shamanic pain rituals with fire ants in the Amazon jungle.On his epic 1,780-mile journey around Great Britain, which lasted 157 days, Ross swam through giant jellyfish, arctic storms, haunted whirlpools and polluted shipping lanes, going so hard, and so fast, his tongue fell apart.

Rosss previous book,The Worlds Fittest Book, was a Sunday Times bestseller and explored the science of physical fitness. Now, inThe Art of Resilience, Ross uses his swim experience and other amazing endurance feats, where he managed toovercome seemingly insurmountable pain, hardship and adversity, to study the performance of extreme athletes, military and fitness specialists and psychologists to uncover the secrets of mental fitness and explore the concept of resilience, persistence, valour and a disciplined mindset in overcoming adversity. This ground-breaking bookrepresents a paradigm shift in what we thought the human body and mind were capable of and will give you ablueprint to become a tougher, more resilient and ultimately better human whatever the challenge you face.

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Incredible individual, incredible book, incredible story.
Chris Hemsworth

A hero who is as humble as he is resilient testament to a never give up spirit!
Bear Grylls

From reading this book, the message that comes shining through is this: you can achieve anything.
Ant Middleton

Author Bio

Ross Edgley is a bestselling author, award-winning adventurer and leading international expert on resilience. He is also the author of the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller The World's Fittest Book and is renowned for his gruelling athletic adventures, the most recent of which saw him become the first swimmer ever to circumnavigate mainland Britain.