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Ross Edgley - For Disciples of Discipline | Myprotein Pro
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May 15, 2025
For disciples of discipline. Engineered for endurance. Backed by science. Formulated for high performance lifestyles. Ross Edgey is a world record holding endurance swimmer, who is no stranger to extreme conditions. Currently training in Scotland, Ross gave us some insight into his training and mindset and how he continues to put his body and mental state in places that are beyond the normal human limit.
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now weather reports from coastal
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stations Southeast Iceland northerly
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storm 10 snow showers So lowest
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temperatures probably around - 2 to - 6
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bringing a cooler feel along some of
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those North Sea coast But it really just
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comes down to
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discipline And I could probably quote
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some abstract idea from ancient Greece
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and
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stoicism but in
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reality it's just saying yes a thousand
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times when your
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body is screaming out
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No I think so often when you hit the
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wall people say it's your mind giving up
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before your body Other people might say
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"Oh actually it's your body giving up."
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Whereas I think now sports scientists
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are kind of understanding it's the
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psychobiological model of fatigue It's
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both If you understand your
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biochemistry motivation is something you
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can almost supplement But at some point
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when that runs out discipline is just so
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much more enduring It's so much more
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reliable I like the term you're almost
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like a savage scholar and it's knowing
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when to do both So there are times when
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you can sit down you can speak to your
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team and you say um I'm depleted of
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electrolytes Um I'm muscle glycogen
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depleted And that's you talking as a
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scholar But then other times you are
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swimming 10 foot ways you're in Iceland
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cracking ice off your wet suit The water
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is like minus one That's probably a time
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to become a savage cuz you can't go into
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something like a swim around Iceland and
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not be a little bit
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savage When you look at sports science
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there are components of fitness whether
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it's um strength your body's ability to
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generate force cardiorespiratory
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endurance agility speed they all have
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specific definitions But when you're
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caught in an Arctic storm and you're
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picking off bits of your tongue sort of
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leaving bits of skin around your neck
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cuz it's chafing It will come down to
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work capacity It will be discipline and
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work capacity Tide after tide and you
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continue to just throw yourself
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overboard and swim That's why looking at
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my training now it might be faux running
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it might be carrying weights up a
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mountain it will be swimming and there
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will be lots of food But ultimately the
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goal is exactly the same work capacity
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[Music]
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So one thing I really want to talk about
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is is the discipline of nutrition I
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actually wrote an entire chapter on this
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in my book The Art of Resilience I
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called it Heroics in Hunger If I can use
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an analogy it's basically like if you
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were in a car right now it was an
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amazing car It was the best car The
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biggest engine Uh goes so fast It's
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incredible The seats are really comfy
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really warm It's amazing But there's no
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fuel in it You're not going to get to
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your destination And I think it's so
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interesting the amount of athletes
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sometimes who don't put the right fuel
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in their body but they want to go and
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run a fast 5k a 10k swim around Great
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Britain swim around Iceland It's not
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going to work At my protein when we've
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sat down and we've looked at the
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nutritional demands you have to hit
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certain things If you don't hit your
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nutritional needs you can have the most
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willpower in the world but the car is
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not going to
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move On the Iceland swim it's going to
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be quite similar to swimming around
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Great Britain where you basically swim
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for six hours sleep for six hours swim
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for six hours So you're swimming with
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the tide and then resting when it's
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against you So you have almost this um
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bifphasic sleep And at my protein we're
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so ahead of the curve So it's so good
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I'm constantly checking in with the guys
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at MPD and they're just using me as like
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a little bit of a guinea pig going take
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this do this and disappear off out to
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sea And that's exactly what I do
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