Ross Edgley
12 things Ross uses or recommends, from 2 episodes.
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Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"Even playing with caffeine on the Yukon swim, we were getting into the grams towards the end of the swim. And that again, it just enabled me to be so much happier doing such a mundane task... My shoulders are hurting. 400 milligrams of caffeine, 15 minutes later, life's not so bad. I'm just ripping through the water."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"Strength reserve just basically means if you are capable of doing a pull-up with 100 kilos, that means your own body weight is basically a smaller percentage of what you're capable of... As strong as I get when I'm strength training, it just means that every single stroke over the Arctic Circle is a smaller fraction of what I'm capable of."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"That and alpha GPC. If I take that combination, I am just dialed in and just swimming... Alpha GPC, I know Huberman talks about you have to cycle that. So that I will... You can build up a very quick tolerance to it."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I'm almost trying to do like the Bulgarian training method, but for swimming, with one rep max on pull-ups... I'm very aware that the Bulgarian training method, they broke more champions than they made... I just respond really well to just being flogged with volume."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I talk a lot about stoicism because I found on my swim, sports psychology can only take you so far. But when I started reading about Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, I was like, well, this is more applicable — control the controllables, accept the uncontrollables... stoicism helps me a little bit more."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"One of the biggest things I found recently is supramaximal isometric holds. Before my heavier lifts, let's take pull-ups — I'm doing about 60 kilos clean. I'll put 80, 90, 100 kilos on, hold in an active hang only 3 seconds. You're not trying to fatigue yourself, you're trying to switch on the central nervous system, neural priming... then when I rip, I will just pull through 60 kilos."
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- Caffeine Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "Even playing with caffeine on the Yukon swim, we were getting into the grams towards the end of the swim. And that again, it just enabled me to be so much happier doing such a mundane task... My shoulders are hurting. 400 milligrams of caffeine, 15 minutes later, life's not so bad. I'm just ripping through the water." +4 others
- Strength reserve training Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "Strength reserve just basically means if you are capable of doing a pull-up with 100 kilos, that means your own body weight is basically a smaller percentage of what you're capable of... As strong as I get when I'm strength training, it just means that every single stroke over the Arctic Circle is a smaller fraction of what I'm capable of." Only Ross
- Alpha-GPC Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "That and alpha GPC. If I take that combination, I am just dialed in and just swimming... Alpha GPC, I know Huberman talks about you have to cycle that. So that I will... You can build up a very quick tolerance to it." +4 others
- Bulgarian training method Uses and recommends it "I'm almost trying to do like the Bulgarian training method, but for swimming, with one rep max on pull-ups... I'm very aware that the Bulgarian training method, they broke more champions than they made... I just respond really well to just being flogged with volume." Only Ross
- Stoicism Uses and recommends it "I talk a lot about stoicism because I found on my swim, sports psychology can only take you so far. But when I started reading about Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, I was like, well, this is more applicable — control the controllables, accept the uncontrollables... stoicism helps me a little bit more." +4 others
- Supramaximal isometric holds Uses and recommends it "One of the biggest things I found recently is supramaximal isometric holds. Before my heavier lifts, let's take pull-ups — I'm doing about 60 kilos clean. I'll put 80, 90, 100 kilos on, hold in an active hang only 3 seconds. You're not trying to fatigue yourself, you're trying to switch on the central nervous system, neural priming... then when I rip, I will just pull through 60 kilos." Only Ross
- Muse stem cells Uses and recommends it "Muse stem cells were amazing. Then hyperbaric, red light therapy. I did everything, and that got me back to the start line ready for Iceland. I think without it I might have needed them reattached with surgery. So that's how good they were for me." +1 other
- Blood and Guts Uses and recommends it "When you look at, is it Blood and Guts, his DVD? The amount of times I used to watch that before I went training. Oh my god, his training partners, the intensity, it was, you know, it was animalistic. It was incredible." Only Ross
- Cognizin Uses and recommends it "I think alpha GPC, Cognizin as well, acetylcholine — I get on really well with that. I find it's a nicer focus, not just kind of getting all jittery." Only Ross
- Hyperbaric oxygen Uses and recommends it "Muse stem cells were amazing. Then hyperbaric, red light therapy. I did everything, and that got me back to the start line ready for Iceland. I think without it I might have needed them reattached with surgery. So that's how good they were for me." +4 others
- Red light therapy Uses it "Then hyperbaric, red light therapy. I did everything, and that got me back to the start line ready for Iceland." +10 others
- Coconut oil Recommends it "But coconut oil, for anyone listening, if you find yourself in a similar situation, coconut oil acts as a barrier, maintains the moisture, and it grows back. It did grow back as well." +1 other