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Sphere is publishing The World’s Fittest Book by endurance athlete and adventurer Ross Edgley, who most recently swam 60k between two islands while towing a 45kg log.
Edgley's book targets a young male audience as "a fitness bible", with Edgley having spoken with "everyone from Olympic and World Champions to Royal Marines and Yamabushi warrior priests".
In The World’s Fittest Book, he will share anecdotes of his adventures as well as a wide range of workouts for beginners onwards, along with recipes and diet plans.
Edgley, who has a social media following of over 600,000, has completed a range of extraordinary physical challenges in his bid to push the boundaries of human potential. Most recently he completed the "Strongman Swim", a venture with Red Bull that saw him swim 61km between the islands of Martinique and St. Lucia towing another 45kg log.
Other feats include in 2016 alone running a marathon pulling a 1,400kg car, climbing a rope repeatedly for 19 hours until he’d scaled the height of Everest, running 1,000 miles in a month while barefoot and carrying a 50kg Marine backpack, training non-stop for 24 Olympic sports in 24 hours, and completing a Caribbean triathlon carrying a 45kg tree trunk.
Adam Strange, publisher for Sphere non-fiction, bought world rights direct from the author to publish on 10th May, in time for Father's Day promotions.