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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harry Bullmore

I tried a two-move bodyweight workout from endurance swimmer Ross Edgley, and it was surprisingly fun

Endurance athlete Ross Edgley says developing work capacity is key to completing his many challenges, including swimming around Great Britain - (BMW / Ross Edgley)

Ross Edgley is, objectively, one of the fittest people on the planet. Who else do you know with a CV that includes swimming around the entire UK, completing muscle-ups with a 20kg weight plate hanging from their waist, climbing ropes equivalent to the height of Mount Everest and finishing a triathlon with a 45kg tree attached to them?

For this reason I was apprehensive when, in a recent interview, he agreed to give me a workout challenge to try. But the two-move test he provided was surprisingly fun, suitably challenging and accessible to most fitness levels. He calls it the “Bear Crawl Battle”.

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