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One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.

Bear Grylls

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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Adventure Kids Want
I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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Eight Fire Fun
Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
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Key Recovery Research Strong
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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Bears Names Week
I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
BEAR GRYLLS

Chiefs Policy Safety
I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
BEAR GRYLLS

Kids Natural Religious
I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
BEAR GRYLLS

Broken Cameras Snakes
I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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Men Survivor Three
I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Face Rock Tea
When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
BEAR GRYLLS

Jobs Moving Thinking
Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure Thinking Travel
Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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Decision Fearless Kids
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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Achievement Belief Ourselves
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Grow Survival
There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
BEAR GRYLLS

Coming Danger Feelings Home
When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
BEAR GRYLLS

Empowering Kids Risk

One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.

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One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.

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