The World's Fittest Book: How to train for anything and everything, anywhere and everywhere by Ross Edgley

The World's Fittest Book: How to train for anything and everything, anywhere and everywhere by Ross Edgley

Author:Ross Edgley [Edgley, Ross]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780751572537
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2018-05-09T23:00:00+00:00


Calories

Carbs

Fat

Protein

Total

928

52g

91g

18g

Per serving

155

9g

15g

3g

HISTORY IN THE MAKING

‘No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training… what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.’

SOCRATES

There are many ways to build strength.

Olympic lifting, training with kettlebells, lifting dumbbells, and even using nothing but your own bodyweight will all produce improvements in strength. But when it comes to building pure maximal strength, most athletes know their squat, bench and deadlift. They’re the three ‘big lifts’ that have long formed the backbone of many strength and conditioning routines.

Factor in the time-efficiency of barbell training – many lifters have built brutal strength with only a handful of heavy sets per week on each of the three lifts – and you realise that the powerlift rules when it comes to building maximal strength. So even if you don’t compete at it, you have a deep-rooted respect for those who do. Those herculean men who bend bars, defy gravity and lift ridiculous amounts of iron off the floor. But among the long list of decorated champions and world record breakers there’s one name that repeatedly pops up. That name is Andy Bolton.

Born on 22 January 1970 in Dewsbury, England, Andy himself is built like most things in Yorkshire – large, robust and insanely strong. Yes, this is partly down to genetics – you can’t solely train and eat your way to a 182-cm, 160-kg (6-ft, 352-lb), muscle-bound frame. But what’s amazing about Andy is that he’s an absolute scholar of strength. Ever modest, he says ‘I won’t bore you with all the details, other than I started strength training at 18 years old and have been doing so for over 20 years. In fact, I’ve been competing in powerlifting for over 20 years. Over the course of my career, I have always spent a lot of time learning. I’ve read hundreds of books and articles on strength training. I’ve been to dozens of seminars and worked with some of the world’s best strength coaches.’

Basically, Andy was gifted with raw strength, but is equally the sum and substance of over 20 years of research and methodology that formed this endless pursuit to be the strongest man ever to lift a barbell.

Was he the strongest?

I’m slightly biased. Andy’s been a good friend of mine for years. He was there for my first 290-kg deadlift, 280-kg squat and 180-kg bench. So anything I write I acknowledge is slightly influenced by the ‘time under the iron’ we’ve shared.

But personal loyalties aside, seven WPC World Champion titles, two WPO Champion titles and a place cemented in history as the first human to ever deadlift 1000 lb (455 kg) strongly suggests so. So for all these reasons let me detail what I’ve been lucky enough to learn from training with one of the strongest humans in history.

Which all begins by reliving the most famous day in powerlifting history.



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