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.
BEAR GRYLLSSurvival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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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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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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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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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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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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