WORLDS FIRST – FROM SWIMMING AROUND ICELAND TO TRAINING WITH ME!

In today’s episode, I train with the one and only Ross Edgley the ultra endurance and resilience athlete who made history by swimming 1000 miles around Iceland 🌊.
A 4 month world record challenge that has NEVER been done before.

But before we get into his insane achievement, I convinced Ross to come to my gym after he finished the swim and promised him to teach him how to handstand walk .
Because why not learn a new skill after swimming around an entire country?

What you’ll see in this episode:
• Step by step CrossFit handstand walk training with Ross Edgley
• Ross answering my questions about the mental and physical challenge of swimming around Iceland
• Behind the scenes insight into his preparation, recovery, mindset, and functional fitness routine
• How CrossFit training connects with ocean endurance and extreme performance

This isn’t just another workout video. It’s about pushing human limits — from learning a CrossFit skill in the gym to completing a once-in-history swim in the open ocean.

If you love CrossFit, ocean swimming, endurance athletes, and learning from world-record achievements, this episode is for you.

Drop a comment: Would you ever take on a 1,000+ mile ocean swim challenge?

This episode is packed with inspiration, insight, and jaw dropping moments.

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There is one legend swimming around whole Iceland. It’s about to happen is an interview for Channel 4. Swimming a thousand miles around one of the roughest islands on Earth. Whoo hoo! It’s very impressive, so yeah, I’m gonna do a small interview on my perspective. I come from this beautiful island, and I know how much the weather plays a role in everything. You should put the the camera on him. He needs to be behind the camera. I hide behind the camera. No, it’s not My name is. I am Iceland. People are going to be sure impressed, and it’s it’s gonna write some history of like, okay, so this is possible. Maybe this will become an event one day. You know, you never know again what can happen. But I definitely think that when people know that he’s finishing and they realize what he’s done, if it’s going to be an open event, there’s going to be a lot of people coming and supporting him to finish. When I started Cross it, I started swimming more in a pool again, but then, like I said, like Crossit Games is like, we have no idea what can pop up and what can show up and so we prepared for everything. I love o swim, and I love open water swim. I love, like pool swimming is okay, but it’s just a different element. You’re in in this environment where you have no control. females aren’t afraid to be strong. It’s probably also because we’re not going to let anything stop us achieving something. But it’s that Viking mentality. of just rostering. And I feel like females, especially, and I’m very thankful for being brought up here because of the equality of females. I have not swam in the Icel Iceland negotcean, I’ll admit that. I’ve done an ice bed in it, but I have not swam in it. And then I come from a family that my dad owns a small fishy boat and has been a lot at sea, so it’s putting it into that perspective of how is he capable of doing this? So, yeah, so just a small perspective from my end, I was hoping that I could swim apart with him, but we didn’t manage to fit that in. I’ve been traveling a lot this summer and and finding the right time for it. Maybe I I’ll be able to to jump in or convince him to swim a little bit more after this. So I finished training early today. And that’s for one reason. There’s a legend, Ross, actually. I don’t know if I’m saying his name right. He has been swimming around whole Iceland a thousand miles, and he’s finishing today, and he’s finishing in a manmade beach called Natal. So, yeah, so I decided I wanted to to see him finished, and I want to surprise him with some cinnamon bumps, the best cinnamon bumps in the absolute world. And yeah, and then I’m gonna try to convince him to come train in my gym before he leaves. He’s been one of the people that I’ followed. He has like resilience like no other person, so he’s been a very big inspiration in the journey that I’ve been on. So it will be awesome to see him and yeah, and try to convince him to train with me. I mean, I can just do upper body and he can just do legs. It’s perfect. Let’s give you a little sneak peek of the best cinema.on bumps in the world. Oh, my goodness. I might just end up eating her. Here we are. I see you can see. Stop. Waiting for the legend to come through and finish this history making, let’s say that. People say it’s rough biking around Iceland. I don’t think anybody thought that it would be possible to swim around Iceland, so. Yes, yeah. It’s insane. on, more!! Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. Oh! I like. We Thank you. Finish, Well, I just want to say thank you so much much. Like, Iceland is incredible, but mainly because of the people. Like, we’ve got stuck in storms, in hurricanes, and honestly, the hospitality, the people here, people opened their homes to us, we got lost, like, we couldn’t get back to landing, like, Ver, and people just gave us beds, they cooked tours and stuff. So I say, I love Iceland just because it’s full of Icelandic people. Like, you guys are amazing. What’s up for you? You make me n I was like, I don’t know why I’m getting so emotional I’m through you. Are you ready? I know you’re motivated by food. I know. This looks only like no. Yeah, smell it.. Oh, my God.. It’s actually for the whole crew, but, there’s one rule. Okay, go on. You can’t leave a country until you train with me. You’re right. So you can’t come to Iceland and me being a big fan of you and you can’t come be with him. So we have to do a session together. Okay, Agreed, but lower your expectations.. Your expectations are here. My expectations are here. So what are we going to do? I, I. You’re a man. Is this going to sound where I am a massive fan. I’ see in your handstandw. I’ve never been able to handstand water. Well, if you come to my gym, I’ll you. Okay, so what we’ supers set. Thank you. We’s talking to supers set of swim around Iceland with handstand. Yeah, we’re gonna do that. What could go wrong? Nothing. Your shoulders are fine, right? You’ This is a terrible idea, but I get pastry. Yeah, you get this, is it. The fast time heavy. I don’t Which one’s the best one? The cinnamon. This one, yeah. That looks naughty. Yeah, this is our so. Yeah. Here we go.. Look at it? Nice. I actually trap? It’s so good. I know. No, it’s definitely not your degree. Nice. This is a must. Always when you come to, you need to go to Brando. This is just, like, something different. No? Yeah, so we’re gonna train together today and just. catch up. I have so many questions for him of, yeah, everything, every experience. He’s done some incredible things and his mindset of resilience.ience is just something else. So, yeah, it’s gonna be a fun day. Simp is actually more excited than me. Si! Oh, my God. Thank you so much. Thank you. I love Only when I get home, I’ sit down and it will just be like.. You’re just gonna crap. Yeah, yeah. I be like, I’m getting with it. You’re like, I cannot. Exactly. Do you get that then afterwards? Oh my gosh. I call it like, postcation depress Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you’ve been on a high and you had to scroll for so long and then you just, you just crash. And you’re like, you wake up and you like there’s how did I even do this? Like for me, it’s more like, how did I lift those weights? How did the adrenaline get me through if we you at program? How did I spend 30k and won’t go or whatever? I? Yeah. know, it’s weird that you said that, because it’s like, you almost decondition your body. Yeah, I remember like, a few months time, the Simon says to me, “I’s 2 o’clock in the morning, Ross. Do you want to go for a swim? I’ll be like,, it’s cold. But when you’re in it it’ doesn’t matter.’re just like, you have this pass and as soon as you’re not or like, wow, it’s not done, you cannot talk to anyone else. But that’s the least I am I’m like so humong. This is Saint Fierce with airing notes. I need to do So I made this because you love foods and the reason I cook could eat is to eat. So I made you this brownie. Yeah, and this is supposed to be 1000 and this is supposed to be an end, but everything, as soon as aard went to shit. So this is the thought. It’s M. This smells unbelievable.belv. Yes, this is not being. I’ve heard you’ve been having a lot of KFCs so to see business. Yeah. But you appl some the recent sort of I thought, you’ve been relatively intro three times. No, no, no. I ate frogging two ribs. I’ve torn in my elbow. and then to Malaysia.. Yeah, so I broke my first rip from over trainingaining.. That was my first inury yeah. I think you’re the first person I’ve had a man. You’ break me from home which I. Yeah, the first rip also, it’s the most protected rip, but it was because of like, I was so opportun for the games and I had a pinch in my shoulder, so I was like, fuck my God. is so tight here. And then I was like, for three months trying to do a front track and I couldn’t never do a front truck. And then I actually get food poisoning and I’m throwing up, and I can feel like something weird here. You know, when you throw up in here, like, putting full force And then I’m trying to force myself to train because it’s been so long, so I like I’m split and I take the part down, and then I just hear it snap. And I thought it was in my neck. Yeah, it was oof. I’ve never I was in Australia at that time. And I was so homesick. When you’re a female, you can keep track of of over trainingaining and everything by your side with it, but I just ignored it. Yeah. So I hadn’t been on my period for two years and I was like, this is normal for being an athlete. I just told to girls which is the biggest lie in the world. So that’s probably the reason why I broke. But then I was able to come back, go to or made to the Crossing games again, and then I play her and another rib from using a belt. So I broke my second rip again nine months later. So my career as has been a very wavy career but the ATL has been the worst in. But do you think as well your brain was just sort of going,No, no, ignore this.s it altered your biochemistry. And he goes, “No, no, we’ve got the gangster andete. I’ down deal with it later. So it was I think second or third event when I broke my rib and I was like, I’m not going to tell anybody, because I heard it directly.” So I didn’t tell anybody, and I was insanely bruised, and we had a marathon row, and I was like, I haven’t come this far to give up, so a rip is nothing. It’s just So that’s what I told myself I was like, it’s long as I can do it, I’m not going to stop. So I didn’t didn’t stop. And then I couldn’t extend my arm in the door and that has to stop. And I only had like two that left. It was only one day, so I competed four out of five days. That is nuts.. Because you know what’s weird as well? So there’s it’s called the psychopiological model of fatigue. And it basically says that the brain’s a hypochondriac, so basically the brain’s going. There’s so much bio feedback, muscle gcogen, a little bit heating, you it. So it gets you to pull that physiological to slow down to stop. Go and hold me. Exactly. And I think what’s so weird is like, you want to go through people like a cat, where I had that, I go, “No, no, ignore it.. And then dates to, you go, “No no, no, ignore it. Ignore it, yeah. Ignore it. And then eventually, what happens, I think the whole physiology just implosed.. But when I was finally, it got let, it was so weird, I thought things were still going well, and I was 50 hours in, and then it was hydrothermia, cellulitis and rab it it all went dark and we got tunnel vision and then it just went black. We’re not playing it. And I remember I just woke up and my mum and my girlfriend at the end of the bed and I looked at them and I just went, I said, it did go well, did it? And they went, no. did not. You’ very. Yeah. But what’s weird, when I’m on the boat, I say I almost outsource common sense. So I have other people make that decision because they’re, oh, Russell put them in a hole. No, this is this is what I have to do. minus’t even compared for viewers because it’ mine is like in a competition which is set up and in a safe envirment and everything. But here’s just like in the ocean in a water where there’s a fair next to you, you know, it’s like, it’s way different, but like I picked up, usually put it on my c like, you have to tell me to stop you and I’m not going to stop. And these are here, like, even like these last few years, it’s just been like, I don’t care about the pain. As soon as the time starts the suit is on, and I don’t care what they’ asking them about this and I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad. No, no, no, I’m just thinking. go, oh, that’s cool. I’m, no, I’m not even being like courageous and stuff. It’s a personality to effect. It’s a real problem. I shouldn’t. No, it’s a problem. I’m like, would be a person that list to myself and then I wouldn’t have to be up with all these consequences. But I just get so much out of the challenge also of like, how can I find a way through this? Or how can I achieve this with what has come up here while I’m doing this challenge? Yeah. Yeah. So it’s I’m not very good at functioning in society, are we? In a warm up sc.UG I have a question for you. When you’ve been injured and you’ve experienced that pain in your shoulder, have you ever been afraid of not recovering and not being able to do stuff again? Oh, for sure. Yeah, that’s my biggest worry. Yeah, yeah. That’s where I amm at now. It’s like the toughness of like, okay, you have to trust the process of you’re going to be good, okay, like, again, and you’re going to do this. But inside you’re like, what if I am not? Then what if if I do this that everything is going to go back to where it was? I agree. You know, like, like before youam and in Iceland, three months or before you you were messed up youers, you to every tenon. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know? But I don’t know if you found this. I think we’re, like, far more powerful than modern medicine sometimes allows us to believe. Yeah. You know So I think like with modern doctors and stuff, they’re always treating, like the lowest compominator, which might be a very sweet year old 80 year old, you a man or woman who like, okay, you’ve just dislocated, your shoulders, we need to do this, and you’re gonna be out for eight weeks. Whereas I’m not saying I’m not saying don’t listen to them. No, but it’s people are different.. Exactly. And you have to listen to yourself with some emphases. 100%. Not always benef. 100%. But I think what’s amazing. Like when I had Gravo, so it was really looked at my preine Hyene which the name is like when it’s in bloods, they’re just like, okay, if it’s elevated, that’s the sign that the muscles are breaking down. So you don’t want to that in your bloodscream. Your muscles are littleified, essentially. Yeah, yeah. And how would you explain to me, and I hope I get these numbers right, but they basically said to me, Ross, if you did a hard workout, your creating carnate might be at right, 800,000. If you went and around a marathon, it might be at 2,000. They said, “If it was at about 8,000, you might have like torn and muscle. That’s pretty bad.” And Tom Saltman was World Strong’s man, a good friend of mine, his was at something like 12,000 when he almost like four, I think it was his bicep for a quarter million They were like, that might be 12,000. That you are being rushed to the hospital.. Something really bad. So I’m sitting there, this was in the lock Nets. So I went, “kay, what’s mine?” And they went to 20,000.. I was like, “Oh!” But what was weird, they said to you, they were like, “Oh, you’ near you for a month in hospital.” And then the day after, I remember, I woke up and I said, “I actually feel okay. And they were like, no, no, no, just stay, you know, no, no, no. And they took my blood and it And then by day three, again, hard again., I think, the power of the mind. Oh, so much. The way you see things and everything is like, like, I turned my ACL and eight months later, I wanted to compete again, and I thought it was ready, everything, and the first event was like, run up and again So I was like, I’m going to do a competition at the five because there won’t be anything risky lit. And then the first event is they go into the mall where the ice ri is, and there’s a run up the ski slope and down And now he’s just like, fuck it, I’m got to go for it. So I’m running there and I’m like, oh, like, my knee is loose. And then I’m like, okay, this is just the way my knee is now after SCL, blah, and then I’m up later, I find out that my body denied the graph that theyL and I was like, holy fuck, I would never have been able to do any of the things if I would have known that he was. You know what I mean? But I was always telling myself, “No, this is how it should be. Keep on going, keep going.” And then I started improving, I was like, “, I’m. You did that song about that, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was like two events, I finished the full competition, I computer again, and now I don’t have an ACL and I was just like, I can give with the dollar ACL, you know. So it’s just like the power of the mind is absolutely what they need credit for. I love that. ACLs are overrated. It’s like, the thought that goes through your head when you’re on the flight to Iceland and you’re about to swim around Iceland. Is everybody I spoke to, when I told him about swim around Iceland. I was speaking to local fishermen and singers and they laughed at me. were like, “Oh, you’re crazy. Yeah. You’re gonna die.” No, my dad is one of them, because I was telling my dad something, and he’s been in the oceanience as he was nine years, but like, this is his hobby now. He always owns a small fishing photo. Yeah. And And he was like, he’s swimming around Iceland and I was like, yeah. How? Like, how were they reading it? And he was just like, and then he’s started when I said, oh, I might I might jump in with him one day if it works out or whatever. And he’s like, let me look. He can help with the tights and I can help you if he needs us to come on the boat. And he just so important. So it’s just like, you don’t realize unless you like been in Iceland how insane this is, you know, like the change of plans every single day because, well, there must have been. I know that now. I was so stupid. I was I think there’s a few gentlemen of like being I’ve got the saying, like, naiveve enough to start stubborn enough to finish. And I think like, honestly, when I came up with the idea, I was like, yeah, that sounds really cool. I love I. I love like the folklore, the history, the heritage. So I was like I want to be amazing to swim around there.”. And then, like, when you’re halfway in it, and I don’t same, like, when you’re doing a workout something horrendous, you just go, “Oh, well, you said you were going to do it now. Yeah, you need to finish, you can’t stop. No., no, no, no. You make a deal with that. It’s like a nonnegotiable. You’re just like, oh, no, this you hit the finish line or a hospital bed. Yeah. There’s be arternatives, like that’s it. Yeah. But now, yeah, I didn’t realise.. And then like literally straight in. We were just getting hit by Arctic scores. I’m being seasick everywhere. There was a point called the the Oflall was this where like two sort of tides and currents collide and the waves were nuts and I’m swimming and it was so bad, I’m sick everywhere. But then not only that, because it’s then travelling so fast, the sick is travelling at the same speed as me. I’m like, oh, you you’re going to own. But like, what’s going through minds people of going in that circumstance. Like, why do you not think, okay, I’m just going to go back on the boat and go to land for a few days and let this pass? You know, like, what close to your head of like, I need to go out in these circumstancesances, versus some people would just go, up, we’ll wait for the better weather. Do you know, I think better weather. It’s actually you bringing it while you’re cutting it. Yeah. Oh, I think it started to become a race against the winter because when the winter sets in in here, it’s it’s not it’s no longer stupid swimming around item. It’s suicide. Yeah. You know, it’s just, yeah. So I think there was knowing that it was a race against the Won coming in. Yeah. And then also as well, I mean, I know we were just talking and with Hester having a baby, so I was just like, I it was really strange in my head. I was like, I can’t not be there for the birth, but I can’t not finish. So what’s my alternative? Well, swimming an arctic storm. That the ox.. The oxygen.? It’s weirdly crossing I think is there a similar psychology? Yeah. I remember when I train with the, like Noah Horses and Well, you like Noah? Oh, the lovely stuff. No, he is the. Actually, the work nice and fl. Yeah. I can’t believe you with Labradory. It’s just so nice. This is Noah, Noah’s appear, at pushing his body to the absolute limmit. Ah, Stop it. I’m all right, I guess. For me, there’s nothing quite comes close to that different fear that you when you finish. No, it is. And you’re like, how did I do this? Yeah. That’s always me when I was competing was like, wow, how did I just do this? Like, how? Because when you’ve set yourself a task and the adrenaline kicks in, your body can do some like incredible things that you never expected. But you have to have this challenge and this direct almost to be able to achieve it, you know? But it’s way is what afterwards that you look back on for me. Sometimes I look back at some of the swims, and I think I’ll probably deal it with Iceland and I won’t quite recognize that person. Is in the moment. Yeah, yeah. I couldn’t be that that. Like, whereas in the time being, you know, Craig, I’m like, oh, yeah, I don’t recognize that but. Yeah. But how do you, a little bit, so I can relate a lot to that with, like, you don’t really, you’re not that person when you go back to UK, but still, like on your flights here and everything, how do you capture into that person, how do you relieve that you can actually do it? Do you think about one day at a time or Well, you know what I mean? I do, but one thing I’m going to borrow from you, I mean that flip of you go went so viral and I didn’t know did that you were just like, and then they just go, dine in and you go, oh, like that. And so for me, honestly that’s something I’m going gonna take from you. I love that. That it’s your ulate ego. Like it’s different. It’s your old g that just kicks in. Yeah. There’s like family your friends’s nice to meet you. And there’s just like this shield me. Yeah. It just goes. And I think it’s probably that, but I haven’t. I genuinely think I said, like, Iceland has become I not to sound too deep, but like, it’s become like a school, like a sparring partner.. It’s just taught me so much. You know, that I just didn’t think the sleep deprivation there. You know now even like getting in, there’s just times now, again, I’m like, this is an Iceland cult. You know, or the wings are big. I’m like, it’s not going around in the Arctic circlecle. You know, it’s to this. So I’ I go back to England now given like the lakes a little bit cold. And I was like, it’s not. I have just swam up 1,000 miles around the entire coaster of Iceland, and today, I kind of’t want to swim, but I didn’t my train. I wanted to do something a little bit different, solo, that the feelers out there and became catching up with the national treasure of Iceland. She needs no introduction. She is a shield maiden. Sarah, how are we? I’m. This is going to be good today, but whatever expectations that you have on me, lower.. Please lower lower your so much more. I think you’re going to teach them. I’ve wanted to learn to do and sted, which sounds really odd because my shoulders are absolutely at least.. You’re So we’ll do hand sts today. There’s talk of potentially Luke coaching O again. and Ollie absolutely sending it on bikes. We’ve got the directors that here, of the Great Icelandic Sw. Luke, you’ to do it as well. Set it We’re all going to go before it again. Right, so what’s ess going to happen? We’re going to be training, and at any point, Sarah’s just going to throw a challenge so if you points at any on the team, they’ve got to do it, including my older brother as well. Yes. I’ cake. Okay, it feels good. I’m going to smashed some caffeine and then do whatever sal tell me. No, no. I’ t.’t though I have to. Let’s do a little bit of this. So, like, you go 10 forward, and you’re putting a lot of weight onto your like, It’s here’s for water.. Okay, if it is too painful, you have to speak. Oh, it’s not pain. It’s just crunchy. And then go up on your fingers and then just control down. Like an eccentric. Yeah. Yeah. Just turning. When you’re ching them out, try not to lift your. You’re trying to.. Wow. Yeah. It’s so good. It’s. I’m feeling that in weird. Yeah. That’s amazing. Sorry, English is my second language, so sometimes I forget few words, but, like, you have to think about where you weighted that you range the line. So what I think about when I do handsome is that, you know, when you’re on your feet, you’re pushing off, your legs, you walk. than now. So it’s’s the same with the hands.’s when you’re doing a hand then, you have to push into the floor, so you can create this this balance in your body, because if you’re like you have spaghetti hands, that I call it, you’re not going to get anywhere. You have to push into the floor to create them, the tension so the body is in the straight line. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. So you’re almost pushing up a little bit.. Right. So I think. That’s I’ve done wrong in the past and I almost get like. Yeah, you just go in and then you’re like, whoa. Yeah, rolling over or something, you know. So that’s the first thing I want to do is just kick up to the wall. So I’m sure you can do it, but let’s just test it up. So like the line that’s left, you know the wall will always catch you. So you go into like this a semi lunch and then click with your life you’re first ride it into the floor as soon as you kick up. Do you know what I mean? Yes. So what you think when you floor when you reating it’s about you to feel on the floor when you take up. Oh. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I’ve never thought about it like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so just going to just going to. Cameras off. This is after 114 days. So yeah. Yes, in the rotation. I just don’t be aggressive, just like, calm. Okay. You you put it like that. We can CGI me doing this proper, I should. Do we need to crash that underneath it? It’s. I’m. Oh. Yes. I make such a difference when you like. When you’re rotate, yes? No. Yeah. That’s not terrible. No, it’s not terrible at all. How is this supposed to. Oh cross not completed. That’s hard. Yeah, I’ giving my neck.. Oh, I think I tell you also, it’s very good. Yeah, this is so so untrained for anything that’s that. That’s amazing. And how is it feel? Do you feel strong in this position or do you feel. What’s? since you taught me that, I’ve never done that before. The talk and the glutes, I’ve never felt so strong in that. No, it’s really better, yeah, but but I’ve done versions of that I’ve seen it and I’ve throwing myself against the water and I go, yeah, that feels amazing. It’s just those little tricks that’s for reception. And it’s just the weirdness of everything, you know? Okay. Nice challengeance. So, you’re going to kick up a little from the wall. Yep. And then you’re going to try to walk through the wall. Right. This is the challenge. But you can almost take the wall will catch you. You know what I mean? So you’re not going to go too far, so I would say, like, okay, you’ve been kicking up here. So let’s go a little bit out here.. And then you just go, perfect. Yeah, just one step. So like you cook here. So try to move your hands before your feet touch the walls.. So you stop. Yeah. It’s not like Cool, okay. Do you know what. Do you know what we’ve been talking about earlier? Like, you don’t know enough. Yes. You have no fear. No, exactly. That’s my only good strength right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kinda. No, it? I know, I don’t know. thing that you did wrong was to keep it not the look at your hands when you kicked up. Right. So you were here to get your ping of where the fuck is this wall? Can you tell me my? have to be secure of life, okay, take up Because what you’re trying to do when you’re doing, handson log is that your weight is going over you and you’re trying to keep up with having your body in balance. Do you know what I do? That’s how you walk. So like, you have to have the weight and lay bit in front of you and you tap panic when you feel the earth you’re like, I’m gonna fall, you have to just move your hands. one of the things I want to say is try to move your hands before you’re full foot touches the wall. Got it. Got it. So just so you feel how it is to move your hands before the feet touch slow. That’s. Yeah, I was just awful. Yeah, Got it. So it’s kind of you trying to force it to be here and it’s how your heart to lift your hand up if you don’t have a mobility. So like, if you put your hands like, how would you say, at 2 o’clock or something, you know you’re not many people do that get people. Yeah, like people are so here, it’s all depends on the shoulders that you have. Like, I’m very flexible, so I’m like, okay, I’m better when I’m more narrow and when I’m straightforward. Cool. So it’s just this one now. Yeah, just a little bit out. Trust the wall Trust the wall. Breathe. Yeah. Okay.. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I’ among them. That was like three steps. Yeah? I’m. So here, hands out. Yeah. Yeah. More there. Because of my lack of nobility. Yeah. You got this. Okay. Keeping loose. Porsche, first, Porsche, first, first, first, first. Don’tt forget about them. Here’s the. Got it. Mr. Cru paid you over. Got it. Yeah, you this? passing, but at least. Rosie, what is your music test? Spice Girls. You don’t you’re always not sporty spots. sport reasons. Sporty play, yeah. R&B hip hop. I wanted to listen to, like, hard rock when we were swimming in that Arctic storm. and just have it in there just like, pow! Yeah. You don’t have any news when you’re swimming here. Oh, we tried the shorts headphones. Yeah. Did it works? Yeah, yeah. No way. Yeah, yeah. No, I usually swim with them in. Yeah. It’s like Lopler was that we all got hold of it and we were just shouting, rubbish at in. putting him off his stroke. Yeah. They were. We had great cars. Yeah, that’s it. I love classic rock. I love Sabbath, Metalligica, that Sin, you know? Yeah. But, like, and I also love just… some deep house music, you know, it just depends on what you’re doing. If I’m lifting, I need metallia. Like, if I’m squatting or something, like, so many times I’ve attempted. So’s some of those I’ve attempted like this steep house and I have a heavy bache something there. I’m like, get this shit out. I need I need three in the Sw stuff. One of my really good friends, Ben at East Dean Drummer of Parkway Drive, which is like real, like, yeah, but I didn’t know, I loved Benny Titch, but I didn’t know he was a drummer in that. Yeah. And he was like, “W may, come along to Parkway Drive.” So he got his VIP ticket. He was amazing, and I turned up and I had chinos on, boat shoes and a white T shirt.. I’m here for the Parkway Drive concert. Everyone was in flat. Okay! It was so good. He does this drum solo and they set his whole drum kit on fire and then they put him upside down, and he continues it’s. Yeah, he’s just drumping upside down on fire. It’s so sick. That seems sick. Yeah. I’m doing a six minute of five green muscle ups each minute. And then I’m doing some ski, bike, and handsome os. I’m just quietly in the corner just shaving myess as they kill themselves off. Sorry, this is socially acceptable to straight biceps in the corner, right? Good. Good. this is I love that. It crosses. It’s supposed to be like nowhere in there, when you get these, like insane functional beasts. And then every now and then you’ll just catch up and you just be like, why’s Ein Yes, yes. Legend! D… Let’s go Wait, wait, wait. No, I’m not.. No, here we go. Theong.. Hey, it’s good. I didn’t actually lose that much weight in a. What are you doing that? I think. Oh, I did when we were at that thing, I think it was like 1995, which, conside I’m built like the Hobbit, as like, 10 I have a rumor that you used to work at Cair. I That is the best job ever. No, this was before I was in like, started training at all. I was like 15 years old, and my brother loves Key. So I would make like this eunuch singer to as with popcorn chicken and and then I would go to school the next day and have the KFC with me. Thanks, that. She’s the best sister ever. the hospitality of Icelandic people, oh, my God. We would be like stormbound, and so we couldn’t get any food and some people would just opened their houses to us and say, “Oh, we’ll cook for you.” in Grimsy.” There were so many of us on the boat, the people were like, “Well, I can’t cook an entire meal, look, I’ve made a call to the neighbors, They’re gonna cook the lamb. I’m gonna cook the potatoes, they’re gonna do the vegetable. And I was like, ohh, my. And then they just opened their honey. The dish taste is like the small pounds. Like, you wouldn’t get this in grape.. is like the city and you’re like, nobody trusts anybody, but everybody knows each other in the small towns and everybody wants to help each other. It was just a major that people, yeah, like a Siler Florida with the herring musicuseum and people just inviting us in. Sigler Florida, this was nuts. We turned up there, and I got a message, a direct message from somebody who followed me on Instagram and they said, “Sorry, Ross, this is so strange, I know you’ve been swimming, but 30 pilot wales are beached, and we need all the help you can get. Oh, my God, my God. So they went, “My car is outside my house. I’m not p you, but the keys are in it. Take my car and go and help.” So I speak to my friend, and I say, “Look, you know, someone’s left us the car, the keys are in here. We’re going to go and save some whales.” He jumps in the car, and I’m like, “What I stealing someone’s car?” a, this is a nice thing to do. I don’t know.” And we turn I don’t speak any, I don’t speak English. And we are just wait in in my t shirt and my wrist. And we’re just like, by hand, pushinging and pulling these whales out. Oh, insane is that, yeah. Nuts. Yeah, we saved all 30 of them in the air. And then afterwards, people were like, right, you have to come to my house, we want to thank you, you want his lamb, his fish, is a beer?” Everything is, like, very fresh and like, low girl, you know? Yeah, yeah, I’ just. So fuck out. That would be my dream to say Wales. Oh, my God, that’s such.s. And then Luke came to meet me afterwards, and I. I like looking at my, I got, and my voice wailing. I was like, oh, my God. Yeah. I was like, oh, I mean Yeah, that was good. Done. I would have all of the challenges. Peaceful. This one, yes. Do you know what? Because month or because of the uncontroll of us. Everything. I think, do you know what was weird, saors? So Sir Robin Knox Johnson, he was the first guy to sail around the world.. And people in Iceland, they say to, Iceland might be the almost half the distance of Great Britain, could have been twice as hardmed. Oh, yes. And I was like, oh, oh, okay. And then 20 days in, I was like, they lied.. I was like, this is four times as hard. Yeah. Like, it’s not even comparable. You know, people go, oh, great, great on my, it’s like, it’s not comparable. So get this. Did you ever get like overwhelmed with what was left? You know what I mean? Or are you very good in just thinking about what’s now? Or were you like, holy fuck, I’m I’ve only done one fourth of that I was going to get. You know what I mean? It’s a really, really good because if I stopped looking at the after and when people were giving me Metrics they going, oh, it’s only 100 kilometers to that headline. I was like, it doesn’t matter.. This will be finished when it’s finished. Yeah, yeah. So you weren’t stressing about it I always love that segment. It says, the person who loves walking will always walk further than the person who loves the destination. Yeah. And so for me, I’ll like, yeah, yeah, cool. Yeah. Don’t even think about it. Because then you’re suppress in what you’re doing versus then you’re just assuming it for the outcome the agreed, yeah, Ireed. But yes, so many. I love what you said because you’re psychology, you have to tap into anything. Yeah. I genuely, I love what you said about making up stories in your head. Yeah. for motivation. But then also, if I get caught in my head of like like, let’s say that I’m a bit the girls are ahead of me and I’m like, fuck, I thought it would be better at this, like the negative talk stars, the self-sabotizing. I’m like, okay, I need to think about numbers. I need like a logical thinking. I think it’s called in English, but it’s just like, okay, one times nine is 9. 9, 18, 27. Like, you just go through like so you’re not like creating a story and creating an emotion. You know what I mean? When the story is going bad. So I’m like, what does he think for? Like, in four hours, he swimming in Pitt black, you know, like, what goes through your head? Are you just in the zone? Or are you making up in your head? Games. Games, yeah. That’s why I’s the same music. Yeah, yeah. They’re just like, yeah. Yeah. And then it’s always like like going through the TV TV channel in your head and you’ll click and go, no, that doesn’t work. That doesn’t work that work. That is working Oh, good. Yeah. No, but there was one thing you said on, I think it was the first Williams and that was you think about the emotions as clouds. Yeah. And I was like, that is such a good way of seeing things. And I’m like, it’s clear Sk when he starts, everything’s positive but then the emotions and the d click in and you’re like, okay, this fl is coming here. I’m not gonna goally because it’s going to leave you. It’s going to. But you say that because the brain is so weird that in that like when you were talking about that event, your brain is like a hypochondact, so what is your deepest darkest fear? Yeah. So was sudden it goes Sarah, oh, what about your ACL? Yeah, yeah. It’s not been very good, has it? And that had broken rib okay. Yeah. I go, no, no, no, shut up. Yeah. You have to pack yourself up. No, I can’t do this because I’ve been able to do this. Like, I still use it in my head when I’m competing up. You fucking ran a ski slope. You can do this. You know, like, yeah. You fucking, you can do. You want. And then I’m like, yeah, I can, I can’t.. But you have the backyard yourself on. You can’t just say, yeah, I can do it. And then you’re like, I just can’t. I the what you said that when you have enough of those in like the library, you can pick those out. And I think for me now with Iemsem, any swim that I do, I was like, it’s not an Arctic storm in Iceland. Yeah. It just what is bad. I’ll tell you find a new challenge, it’s just going to be similar on Greenland. How are you? I’m Robs. Lovely to meet you. How to meet you. Obviously, it’s been on the ocean for many, many years and watched one of them that thought you craz. Oh, well, I agree. I agree. Oh it’s been beautiful. It is, yes. It’s amazing, but just like, Grimsy Island, the Arctics and waves, I thought Great Britain was bad. Yeah. are warning it’s gonna be too tense as bad as women that knows for a. Oh, so the east coast as well, like the currents down there so fast. Yeah.. But then when the wind was going the other wave, window, it just rain, just getting smashed. We look look a lot.., that’s. Where are the birds? And then we follow the birdss and Wow. Wow. 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