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HarperCollins has raced away with fitness and endurance athlete Ross Edgley's Blueprint.
Executive publisher Oliver Malcolm acquired world all language rights directly from the author, for publication in September 2021.
The synopsis explains: “Ross has spent decades perfecting the principles and practice of extreme fitness to achieve the impossible. Following a career-threatening injury in 2018, Ross was forced to reassess his training and take the next steps in a lifelong journey of redefining what the human body is capable of. In Blueprint, Ross shares the cutting-edge training program that empowered him to rebuild his body from surgery and a doctor’s gloomy prognosis to completing a world record swim in just 365 days. Whether it’s climbing a mountain, swimming the English Channel, or a gruelling triathlon, Blueprint will teach the tried and tested principles of sports science that have been used for decades by Olympians, explorers and adventurers at the limits of peak physical endurance.”
Award-winning adventurer Edgley is renowned for his gruelling athletic adventures, the most recent of which saw him become the first swimmer ever to circumnavigate mainland Britain. He is also the author of two Sunday Times bestselling books released by HarperCollins, The World’s Fittest Book and The Art of Resilience, which has sold over 130,000 copies to date across all formats, according to the publisher.
He said: “I'm so excited to finally be able to share Blueprint with the world! In many ways, my most ambitious book to date it takes tried and tested principles of sports science and condenses it into a 365-day training plan that anyone can follow. Packed with personal stories, it details (with 100% transparency) how I recovered from surgery and returned to the same level of fitness that saw me complete the World's Longest Sea Swim, World's Longest Rope Climb, World's Heaviest Triathlon and World's Strongest Marathon.”
Malcolm added: “No one is pushing the traditional fitness paradigm further than Ross Edgley right now. The line between exercise and adventure is becoming pleasingly blurred. Blueprint is therefore a book for anyone who wants to step out, and step up.”