This partly explains why we Homo sapiens migrated from Africa over 50,000 years ago and then continued to colonise the entire world some 20,000 years ago. Scientists believe our wanderlust gene-carrying ancestors were the ones who pioneered this exploration of our planet as they climbed mountains, crossed oceans and had dreams of exploring beyond the horizon.

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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. 1. Spring (build) What was the secret to their superhuman stamina, virility and ability to please their loved ones in temperatures that would ordinarily shrink and shrivel a man’s ‘vital’ organs? Well, it seems a profound understanding of ancient philosophy and an age-old technique of ‘half-castration’.The focus is on building on your ‘athletic base’ as the volume of training is kept high and the intensity of training is incrementally increased. At this point, training starts to replicate your chosen sport or adventure more closely as you train technique and specific energy systems based on the teachings of the Russian Conjugate Sequence System of the 1960s and early 1970s and the Process of Achieving Sports Mastery. Put simply, this is a method, theory and philosophy of training that helps athletes specialise and refine their specific skills. 4. SUMMER (PEAK) This is why the ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus famously once said, ‘The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.’ 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) a b "The 15,000 Calorie Diet Fuelling Ross Edgley's Swim Around Great Britain". Outdoorsradar.com. 16 October 2018 . Retrieved 24 February 2020. 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]

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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 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. 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. For some, this comes naturally as the desire is innate and wired into our DNA. Research shows a proportion of the population are born with a variant of the DRD4 gene (known as DRD4-7R) that makes us genetically predisposed to take risks and travel with a restless curiosity. ¹ More commonly referred to as the ‘wanderlust gene’, it’s believed people who possess this genetic code have lower sensitivity to dopamine (our feelgood hormone) and therefore require a bolder and braver lifestyle to satisfy their biological make-up. As mentioned before, although this periodised plan is typically adopted by elite-level athletes, it is particularly useful when applying these sports science principles to adventure too. That’s because by plotting your ability to adventure within the graph as well, you’re able to see when you’re optimally primed and ready to take on an expedition based on where you’re at (physically) with your training and your ability to handle volume and intensity.Ross Edgley (born 13 October 1985) is an athlete, ultra-marathon sea swimmer and author. He holds multiple world records and is known for undertaking athletic adventures around the globe in some of the most hostile conditions ever recorded on earth. [3] But he is perhaps most recognised for completing the World's Longest Staged Sea Swim in 2018, [4] when he became the first person in history to swim 1,780 miles (2,860km) [5] around Great Britain, in 157 days. [5] 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. I definitely took some good little “nugget” from this book. Also, another takeaway is that Ross is crazy, in a good way. 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. The National Strength and Conditioning Association [a worldwide authority that informs and supports exercise professionals] believes that long-slow distance running or swimming is a great way to “increase the athlete’s tolerance for more intense training”.