Oct 6, 2026 · 2 hr 24 min · 17 segments
Ross Edgley joins us for an incredible conversation about extreme endurance, human performance and what it really takes to push beyond your perceived limits. From swimming around Great Britain and…
Jake DeardenHost
From, like, a mental point of view, I think I'm at a point now with, with training where, um, I have to be a little bit more reserved with training.
Sometimes if I'm having a great day and I'm really feeling it, I'll push too far-
... and then I, I'll get kind of, like, injured or something later on down the line.
Um, so it's kind of like one, holding back, and I think that's from, I've had a past of, like, running ultra-marathons and stuff a- and then, like, um, training in the gym, and then tr- training to failure.
Uh, obviously back in the day, like, bro bodybuilding and stuff like that, like, you'd be on the hack squat-
Like, physically wouldn't let you off that hack squat until you're on the floor in a pile and they had to lift the weight off you.
And I feel like that, that's great for hypertrophy, it's great for building muscle, um, but for kind of, like, performance-
So I found recently it's all about actually not going very hard in training because you want that longevity, and it's all about the weeks adding up rather than maybe doing a really hard week and then being battered for a week, and then general rinse and repeat, you know, potentially getting injured or whatever.
But, like, in terms of, uh, actually, like, when I, when I started training for a marathon and stuff like that, uh, I think...
Like, um, I, actually, like, at, for before I ran that marathon, I didn't train upper body for six weeks before the marathon, and, like, I still couldn't lose it off my-
From, like, a mental point of view, I think I'm at a point now with, with training where, um, I have to be a little bit more reserved with training.
Sometimes if I'm having a great day and I'm really feeling it, I'll push too far-
... and then I, I'll get kind of, like, injured or something later on down the line.
Um, so it's kind of like one, holding back, and I think that's from, I've had a past of, like, running ultra-marathons and stuff a- and then, like, um, training in the gym, and then tr- training to failure.
Uh, obviously back in the day, like, bro bodybuilding and stuff like that, like, you'd be on the hack squat-
Like, physically wouldn't let you off that hack squat until you're on the floor in a pile and they had to lift the weight off you.
And I feel like that, that's great for hypertrophy, it's great for building muscle, um, but for kind of, like, performance-
So I found recently it's all about actually not going very hard in training because you want that longevity, and it's all about the weeks adding up rather than maybe doing a really hard week and then being battered for a week, and then general rinse and repeat, you know, potentially getting injured or whatever.
But, like, in terms of, uh, actually, like, when I, when I started training for a marathon and stuff like that, uh, I think...
Like, um, I, actually, like, at, for before I ran that marathon, I didn't train upper body for six weeks before the marathon, and, like, I still couldn't lose it off my-
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