The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body

Sports nutritionists recommend athletes consume 1.7 g of protein per kg of bodyweight, per day to help the muscles repair and regrow.

nothing could prepare me for swimming while trying to hold back 157 days of suppressed emotions, since the entire time I hadn’t allowed myself to celebrate, think or dream of finishing.

resilience is not some superhuman gift that is possessed by the brave and bold. It’s innate within all of us, but is realised through stress and stimuli.

The gastrointestinal tract plays a critical role in delivering carbohydrates and fluid during prolonged exercise. A stomach of steel can therefore be a major determinant of performance.

I wasn’t a hero, I was just hungry. The entire swim had basically been an eating competition with a little bit of swimming thrown in. Since to swim 1,780 miles around Great Britain you didn’t need ‘iron will’ … You needed a stomach of steel.

I spent the next hour getting reacquainted with warmth and hygiene, two long-lost friends I hadn’t seen in over five months at sea.

All endurance athletes should spend time training their stomachs.

RESILIENCE IS SUFFERING STRATEGICALLY MANAGED

find your own Okugake. Fuelled by an intrinsic form of motivation for self-discovery through self-discipline