Human Body an Instrument not Ornament

Hans Selye  (Photo by Jean-Paul Rioux) 

Let’s face it, many so-called fitness experts are actually beauty mavens.  They view the human body as romance bait.

Not so with Ross Edgely, whose name suits him to a wet tee.  He loves to push every fiber of his pumped-up body right to the edge.  Ross recently completed a 157-day swim around Great Britain, during which his tongue peeled as much as the 649 consumed bananas.

Why push so hard?  Inspired by Hans Selye’s 1936 experimental proof “that stress and stimuli were the key to adaptation,” Edgely is seeking a perfect blend of both.  Armed with “Marcus

Aurelius’s Meditations on stoic philosophy,” he has taught himself to “swim with a smile,” no matter what.

Perhaps Edgely will become “one of Hans Selye’s indestructible rats.”  Perhaps he will die trying.  Either way, Ross seems willing to risk it all for an extended theory.   

Resources

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/nov/05/chunks-of-my-tongue-came-off-you-could-see-the-tastebuds-ross-edgley-on-swimming-around-great-britain

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