#49 The World's Fittest Book Part I - Book Summary

Part I: The Five Laws of Fitness

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Welcome back to another episode of ‘Wise Words Book Summaries’.

This week we are summarising ‘The World’s Fittest Book’ by Ross Edgley which strips down fitness to its basics, covering the fundamentals of how to build strength, muscle, speed and endurance.

In this episode, we cover topics such as:

• The Five Laws of Fitness
• The Law of Body Basics
• The Law of Progressive Overload
• The Law of Specificity 
• The Law of Recovery
• The Law of More

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Next week we will summarise ‘Good to Go’ by Christie Aschwanden so stay tuned for that.

We hope you enjoy it.

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Chapters:
00:00:00-Intro
00:00:16-Overview
00:04:50-Components of Fitness
00:21:04-The Five Laws of Fitness
00:22:58-The Law of Body Basics
00:24:08-General Physical Preparedness
00:29:29-Kinaesthetic Awareness
00:38:13-The Law of Progressive Overload
00:48:19-Overtraining
00:50:08-General Adaptation Syndrome
00:56:39-The Law of Specificity
01:01:14-The Law of Recovery
01:02:58-The Wim Hof Method
01:06:57-The Law of More
01:07:13-Work Capacity
01:11:27-How to Train While Avoiding Sore Muscles
01:14:40-How to Build Great Abs

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