The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
BEAR GRYLLSOne 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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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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.
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My Christian faith is my backbone
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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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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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