Before I found this wonderful person I thought I could swim far, at 5km, but Ross has blown my mind when it comes to swimming and endurance events. He is such an inspiration and also such a nice guy, keep it up
Next video drops NEXT Sunday! Let me know if you want me (or the medical team) to elaborate on anything, since as per the mission brief at the start of this series, SO keen to explore human performance under extreme conditions and broadcast our findings 🙂
What about ways to improve V02 max, I think that would be amazing to see & helpful to many people as well. Also, what workouts are the best for absolute beginner gym goers to implement to create a great baseline
What are the effects of your amount of muscle mass on cardio/long distance exercise? I'm curious if there's utility to it, and really curious if there would be some potentially optimal level of muscle mass.
Also, what are the effects of caffeine on sports performance. and how much should you optimally take? Do you periodise caffeine intake (for ex. 8 weeks 200mg a day, 2 weeks off). Just curious about caffeine in general as I quit after drinking it months on end and feeling and performing lot's better right now.
I had an experience with hyperthermia as well on a particularly warm day from running, it's no joke. I started having seizures and became temporarily paralyzed to the point where I couldn't breathe on my own and passed out. My sister who was a trained nurse was the one would could immediately treat me, wrapped me in cold towels and manually brought my body temperature down.
Aww 😬 that sounds BRUTAL! But soo good you had an amazing team around you!! I was so lucky too… the medical team we had were amazing!! And the Italian hospital ❤️ so grateful! Anyway hope you’re ok now and back stronger
Thank you for documenting your journey. I started swimming in December of last year and I'm just trying to get to 1000 yards straight. Your attempt for the longest swim is helping inspire me and keep me going
As a nurse in ITU we have has a few patients with rhabdomyolysis that was auto immune related and there body chemistry was always very unusual and they suffered so badly with uncontrollable muscle pain and fatigue as you said. These patients actually had levels above 20,000 so to hear that your medics haven’t seen higher than 20,000 is just crazy. I will never forget someone who had a rate of 80,000 and she was paralysed and had to endure months and months to of rehab just to learn to walk again.
shoulder injuries on shoulder injuries. Proximal humerus fracture involving pin and plate surgery , followed by a flicking coracoacromial ligament, followed by biceps tendonitis including bursitis and synovitis, flowed by a plate removal surgery, flowed by subluxation of the biceps tendon and potentially some adhesive capsulitis. All in the space of 3 years.
yeah things are getting better, I wanted to make this comment section the worst in UA-cam history !!!!! thankyou ross for calling me a spartan. If i get through this fully I will promise to be a the spartan level of you !!!! thankyou!!!@@RossEdgley
Goodness, the Great British Swim jellyfish bonanza was such a torture! And these are just the PHYSICAL injuries, speaking of hallucinations I remember reading in your book about dealing with the isolation looking into the abyss swimming so long (especially at night) and the mental fatigue one goes through during all this. Thank you for sharing! Also having messed up my shoulder back in 2020 I see vast improvement after implementing your scapular pull-ups!
I almost never comment on youtube videos - but I´ve watched a few of Ross´s and they are all amazing. Apart from the pure physicality of what he achieves, I am blown away by his attitude and humor. There is a lesson there for all of us about how we embrace life. Simply wonderful!
Amazing resilience! Rhabdo is full on, i had close to 50,000 CK levels and had my heart and kidneys shutting down because of it. It has been a long road to recovery but I’m back in the best shape of my life and still pushing myself each day 💪🏽
I’m a nurse and I have looked after a few patients with rhabdomyolysis of 80,000 and the pain these people endure is just awful so I fully sympathise and hope your back to your normal self as much as possible xxx
Very inspiring and kind of you to read, like and reply to so many of the comments. You're such a jolly fellow, one of the most jolly I've ever seen. We need more jollyness! Ahoi mate
Great Video Ross! I once contracted sepsis from dirt that got into my blood stream. I ran one of those Tough Mudders and cut my toenails short the night before..I had no idea how vital decent toe nail length is to survival 😂 The sepsis tracked up both my legs and 2 days later and I ended up in hospital unable to walk. Both big toenails had to be cut off to clean the infected toes..it was grim! I hope this is a warning to others!
Your commitment to not giving in is what helps me train harder if you can swim for 6 hr stints for months I can train hard for a hour a day and get fitter,you are a inspiration just read the first 2 books they are very good and helpful 👍
I didn't know Rabdo was a thing! It's interesting to me is how quickly you appear to have recovered from it. The worst injury I ever witnessed happened to a friend of mine in high school. He tried to beat the school squat record. As he went down in to the squat, his inner quad on his right leg snapped off the bone and the whole mass of muscle shot into his groin. He dropped the weight, lots of screaming, he fainted, and needed surgery to reattach his ligament.
Just did Everest Base Camp last month (Feb 2023). Woke up at 1am, hyperventilating with an Oxygen saturation of 46%. Luckily had hot flask of tea by my bed and a bowl of sugar. Spoon after spoon of sugar in my mouth followed by hot black tea. Managed to bring the heart rate under control and therefore, get enough oxygen into my lungs and subsequently into my various organs inc the brain. Lucky escape.
Thank you Ross for sharing youre adventures. Youre positiv attitude and view on swmming and sport as a whole is immensly inspiring........i started swimming regulary this january and it has become my meditation an a way to calm my mind. so my worst swimming injury: One sunday this june i went to the pool and wanted to do a nice short morning swim. So i didn´t pack any water oder food. I proceeded to get into a very peacefull state of mind an didn´t have the urge to stop swimming. i swam for about 3 hours straight without pause and about 8km until i got out of that state and felt a bit tired. when i got out of the pool i was really wobbly on my feet and proceeded to drink 3 cokes, eat a burger, chips, icecream and a lot of biscuits at the poolrestaurant. even it beeing over 30°C outside i was really cold and my pulse was at about 40 beats/min...... when i finally wobbled home it took a 2 hour nap on the couch to get back on my feet and feeling ok again :) lesson learned, always bring something to drink and food :) thanks again Ross for sharing bits of youre lifes story. youre a legend.
Youve consider so many things that can influence your performance that you missed probably one of the most important one, wich is weather. Nutrition, training, sleeping, blood tests, and who even know what more. Ross , even under those extrene conditions, you pushed your limit eveng furder beyond any human being could even expet. For the next time, just one adviced from a little mortal who get tons of motivation from ypur videos and speeches, CHECK THE WEATHER LOCATION, let all that hard work pay off. Keep rocking Ross, you Legend!
Woah never even considered these issues and what the human body has to go through. I thought it would be just training, pace, calories and support. Woah just woah to your challenges 😮💪💪
You’re an inspiration big man. Rugby- knee hyper extended, grade 3 PCL tear, meniscus tear and broken tibia. Back of my leg was as purple as Barney the dinosaur
Wow… you are a super human. I have had many sport injuries with a few requiring surgery BUT the worst was when I accidentally dropped a 10 lb weight from squat height on my big toe with no shoes on. I crushed my toe and my bone popped out through my nail bed. Initially shock and then pain so horrible it put me into shock lol (for real actually) 😳
So much respect for you brother. Taking your body to the limit takes a different kind of mentality. My worst swimming injuries it's just a shoulder tendinitis and the classic rotator cuff, acromion and bursitis. Just finished an Oceanman of 10k last October and that's the farthest I've gone...for now haha I do mean to keep pushing. You should come to Mexico and do the cross between Cancun and Isla Mujeres!! probably i'll be a warmup for you haha but it's such a wonderful swim. Take care LEGEND!
Hi Ross, New to the channel and really like the content.Thank you. I’ve been a (pool) swimmer for 40+ years. I recently watched the Nyad movie (on Netflix) with the Mrs and was wondering if you fancied a crack at that swim at some point?
Dude! Those injuries are insane…you almost got boiled like a lobster! 😬😬😬😬😬 there is something incredible about surviving injuries like that though, and then to be able to laugh about them afterwards. It’s a cool thing when pain becomes your friend. Anyhoo, not really an injury, but I gave birth to my son in a tub at my house and I’ve never felt more victorious in my life than when I was holding this new little life while sitting in a pool of my own blood 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I didn’t know one person had that much blood to bleed but here I was bathing in it and not thinking twice about if I’d have any left to live on LOL good times
My first Jiu Jitsu competition I still can't remember thanks to a secondary concussion (a bad throw 2 weeks before had given me a mild concussion which meant i shouldn't have completed). Took up judo to get over my fear of being thrown so i could keep training and competing. My first judo competition ended with surgery to fix my radius and ulnar bones, both of which were snapped clean through. Despite those bad starts I've keep going back to the mats and am now purple belt in Jiu Jitsu and yellow belt in judo.
Hello sweet soul Ross: what I'd like to know: I know you don't complain much but how did you feel when you had these high CK values? I once had rhabdomyolysis in my legs because of a brutal leg-workout with a (at that time) relatively untrained body... Even if I had severe muscle soreness several times in my life, it did not compare to what I experienced with rhabdo. You just mentioned in the video that you were very fatigued, but was it as painful as the high values would suggest? And did your whole body hurt or was it just in specific bodyparts like shoulders/chest/legs?
I tore every crucial ligament in my knee, broke my shin, broke my ankle, busted both meniscus and dislocated three toes, all on the same leg. The first thing my dad told me when he came to see me at the hospital was “Tis but a scratch”. At the time, not funny, looking back, only a little… Thanks for your videos Ross, you’re a legend
@@rapscallion9161 Pretty much. It happened in 2018, and after 2 years I got a final check by the surgeon, and he said everything was good to go. The issue I still have, is more like a lack of trust, although it sounds weird. I wasn’t able to walk for like a year, so even now 6 years later, I still have to force myself to put equal weight on my legs when for example squatting or deadlifting
@@Emillofootball yeah I can’t imagine how tough it’ll be to re-programme your body. I only had an arthroscopy for plicae and I’m 8 months in, just about seeing light at the end of the tunnel. It’s good to know that even with an injury as traumatic as yours you have made a decent recovery.
This year I have been a bit unlucky. I broke my rist, my finger, and my toe all on seperate occasions and all were sport injurys. I never broke something before. This year all the luck I have been having finally caught up with me.
I had a CK level of 145,000 back in 2020, I spent 6 days in the hospital getting pumped with sodium bicarb. It's wild hearing your kidneys are about to fail when all you feel is above average muscle soreness
I once chipped off the tip of my left elbow. Most of the triceps tendon was attached to the bone fragment, but some was still attached to the rest of the bone - thus rupturing the tendon lengthwise. That takes 6 months of healing, before it will hold up to sudden loading againg. I had a job at the time, where sudden loads could not be ruled out, so I had to stay home for 6 months. I now have 12 % decreased function of my left hand.
And the root cause of them all!? ... Athletic Insanity! Man, you're such a beast for wanting to go back at it. This time though, we want a happy finish and the longest swim record beaten! Not a record for the most failed number of attempts! Happy Training!
Broken hip is my worst injury by far, on crutches for 16 weeks gets boring after a while. Tripped on a kerb while out running and down like a ton of bricks,, thought id pulled something but couldn't get up😗 Started to look where i'm going nowadays
I've managed to avoid most bad injuries but I did dislocate my pinky finger player aussie footy and it was at a right angle. I did get nearly hypothermic in my first 5km open water race when I was 12, the conditions were super choppy and it was about 16 degrees in the middle of summer, I got out, felt fine albeit a little cold and the surf lifesavers wrapped me in a space blanket and took me to the showers. In Feb 2018 (I was 17), we did a 2.5km open water and the entire course was just blubber jellyfish everywhere I got stung bad enough that it welted up. Twice in 10km swims (one was a race in 2017 and one was training for a 24km Dec last year), I have gotten such bad sunburn that my back was all blistered up. My brother broke his hand in a lane rope, he got it caught and twisted to get it out and he ended up hypothermic in the middle of summer on a 28 degree day, he was swimming a 2.5km no wetsuit and ended up disorientated, then our teammate swam past and he pulled out of the race. Where I never swim with a wetsuit, he can't swim open water without a wetsuit, he's 176cm and 62kg so he just freezes. Who knows, I may end up with a few more because I want to swim Bass Strait unassisted which is about 200km. I've already done a 24km swim (6 hours 6 minutes, with the current), hope to do the english channel but I've got to get better with the cold and then a lot more training to do Bass Strait, though aiming to do within the next 10 years.
By the way, I'm having a shoulder pain after being off from workout all together. I stopped working out to accompany my wife when she was on labor. Unfortunately, my first daughter was stillborn and I needed some time off even from work. But when I started the push ups again, somehow I lost my strength from the time off and now I'm left with a shoulder pain, somewhere on the inside part.
One my top 5 Stupidly decided to ride my over excited horse without a saddle. This resulted in me trying badly to impersonate rodeo cowboy until I was ejected over the horses head. On landing like 95kg dead weight I felt a sharp pain in my hip. I put the horse in her field then drove to the hospital. I was kept in for a couple of days before being released. Apparently I had just swelling and was free to do light exercise. I continued to jog, lift weights etc for a further 3 weeks. Until my leg turned out 90 degrees and it looked like bone poking out the top of my leg. Turns out I had been running around on a full Brocken hip all that time. One hip replacement later I am about to do my first 10k run next week and triathlon in May. So I reckon I we give Ross a broken hip handicap I might stand slightly more on a chance lol
Before I start playing this video, my mind was like, "Hmm.. Shoulder pain must be up there." After watching the video, I don't think this is about fitness anymore.
my worst injurie was when i rode my bicycel home from work late one night and crashed and broke my femur neck, ended up with some extra screws in my leg and daily pains since then😅
This is absolutely wild. Just casually picking bits of your tongue off like you've just brushed with Oral-B whitening toothpaste. Can I ask though, What skin care products and body wash did you have to use in order to heal up that nasty chafing?
I am, of course, a complete layman, so do forgive me Ross but surely a 20,000 Creatine Kinase reading would be akin to eating through significants amount of muscle in one go?!
I broke 4 ribs, my wrist and 3 fingers when I was 13 during an ice hockey game. Just the way I fell with another kid on top of me at full speed into steel posts. Not a fantastic scenario. Then there was my compound fractured collarbone from a cycling injury.
Crushed my calcaneous (heel) bone into five pieces. All the tendons had to find new routes around it so they hurt and yanked on my hamstrings for a year or so. Three years on and I’m still limping… but still running. :)
Amazing how shark attacks aren't in the list of injuries from long distance swimming in open water. Yet, whenever i tune into the discovery channel i witness testimonies of folks being bitten, one after the other whilst splashing knee-high deep off the shore lol
I did a few 8k swims, 1 10k swims, I had some calf cramps which felt like my leg was going to explode!!… watching this, I will just man up and keep swimming…..lol
You're built entirely differently lol I can't compete injury-wise. I'll list them below for shits and gigs haha! concussion (Muay Thai) Broken Ribs (Kickboxing) Herniated Disc (Kickboxing) Sciatica (Kickboxing) Smashed metacarpal (Kickboxing) Torn groin (Kickboxing) nearly broke my back pulling a wardrobe on top of myself as a kid. Couldn't walk for 6 weeks! ripped my arm open and could see the elbow bone clearly (Skateboarding) Smashed my teeth out on an old school metal till as a kid lol (Running downstairs) And the proud owner of 36 scars, (last time I counted) Due to Mountain Biking and other dumb stuff! Looking at it written down, I'm actually quite proud of that list. Good health everyone! haha...
My worst injury, I got stung in the bottom of the foot by a stingray. I chose not to go to the hospital. About a month later it was still hurting when I walked. So I took a knife to my own foot and found a 1/4 inch barb that had broken off inside my foot.
Those hand and foot water wrinkles and amazing to look at. Bet they werent too pleasant to experience. Just a few from a bath on the finger tips are enough for me!
Worst thing i ever did was when i fell down during a basketball game, I dislocated my knee. Didn't want to stop playing so I started hitting my knee with a door to get it back in to its location. #notsmart
shoulda just brought some peanut butter and bread to deal with the jellyfish mate coulda made a sandwich lad good video big fella was interesting as mate
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“I was looking at the footage and was like: that’s not swimming, that’s horrendous”
Cuts to Ross swimming just like I do 🥲
Bahahahaa right?!
Before I found this wonderful person I thought I could swim far, at 5km, but Ross has blown my mind when it comes to swimming and endurance events. He is such an inspiration and also such a nice guy, keep it up
Aww you LEGEND!! 5km is IMMENSE!! People who don’t swim don’t realise just how far that is x x BIG love and hope training is going well
Bro 5km is crazy. There are people who's struggle to run that
Next video drops NEXT Sunday! Let me know if you want me (or the medical team) to elaborate on anything, since as per the mission brief at the start of this series, SO keen to explore human performance under extreme conditions and broadcast our findings 🙂
What about ways to improve V02 max, I think that would be amazing to see & helpful to many people as well. Also, what workouts are the best for absolute beginner gym goers to implement to create a great baseline
Thanks for all the great videos, Ross!
I was curious about what the treatment was for you? Was it just rehydrating you?
What are the effects of your amount of muscle mass on cardio/long distance exercise?
I'm curious if there's utility to it, and really curious if there would be some potentially optimal level of muscle mass.
Also, what are the effects of caffeine on sports performance. and how much should you optimally take? Do you periodise caffeine intake (for ex. 8 weeks 200mg a day, 2 weeks off). Just curious about caffeine in general as I quit after drinking it months on end and feeling and performing lot's better right now.
I had an experience with hyperthermia as well on a particularly warm day from running, it's no joke. I started having seizures and became temporarily paralyzed to the point where I couldn't breathe on my own and passed out. My sister who was a trained nurse was the one would could immediately treat me, wrapped me in cold towels and manually brought my body temperature down.
Aww 😬 that sounds BRUTAL! But soo good you had an amazing team around you!! I was so lucky too… the medical team we had were amazing!! And the Italian hospital ❤️ so grateful! Anyway hope you’re ok now and back stronger
Went on to finish my first marathon after that! Also came out of it with a somewhat wiser mentality, I would hope! 😂
Thank you for documenting your journey. I started swimming in December of last year and I'm just trying to get to 1000 yards straight. Your attempt for the longest swim is helping inspire me and keep me going
Well done, that's great, keep at it 🎉
As a nurse in ITU we have has a few patients with rhabdomyolysis that was auto immune related and there body chemistry was always very unusual and they suffered so badly with uncontrollable muscle pain and fatigue as you said. These patients actually had levels above 20,000 so to hear that your medics haven’t seen higher than 20,000 is just crazy. I will never forget someone who had a rate of 80,000 and she was paralysed and had to endure months and months to of rehab just to learn to walk again.
shoulder injuries on shoulder injuries. Proximal humerus fracture involving pin and plate surgery , followed by a flicking coracoacromial ligament, followed by biceps tendonitis including bursitis and synovitis, flowed by a plate removal surgery, flowed by subluxation of the biceps tendon and potentially some adhesive capsulitis. All in the space of 3 years.
awww brother that's brutal!!! hope you're healing up since that's an immense list... you're a SPARTAN!!
yeah things are getting better, I wanted to make this comment section the worst in UA-cam history !!!!! thankyou ross for calling me a spartan. If i get through this fully I will promise to be a the spartan level of you !!!! thankyou!!!@@RossEdgley
Goodness, the Great British Swim jellyfish bonanza was such a torture!
And these are just the PHYSICAL injuries, speaking of hallucinations I remember reading in your book about dealing with the isolation looking into the abyss swimming so long (especially at night) and the mental fatigue one goes through during all this. Thank you for sharing!
Also having messed up my shoulder back in 2020 I see vast improvement after implementing your scapular pull-ups!
Aww you’re such a legend!! HUGE thanks brother!! Means a lot you read the books!! This aside hope your training is going well and having a good 2024
@@RossEdgleyThank you right back at you brother! 💪
I almost never comment on youtube videos - but I´ve watched a few of Ross´s and they are all amazing. Apart from the pure physicality of what he achieves, I am blown away by his attitude and humor. There is a lesson there for all of us about how we embrace life. Simply wonderful!
Amazing resilience! Rhabdo is full on, i had close to 50,000 CK levels and had my heart and kidneys shutting down because of it. It has been a long road to recovery but I’m back in the best shape of my life and still pushing myself each day 💪🏽
I’m a nurse and I have looked after a few patients with rhabdomyolysis of 80,000 and the pain these people endure is just awful so I fully sympathise and hope your back to your normal self as much as possible xxx
Only Ross could talk so casually and with a smile talk about all the times he nearly died.
Mental. Doctors: yeah your kidneys could've failed. Ross: I was thinking swim harder! My body lies! 😂
Hahahaha 😂 🙈 😬
@@RossEdgley luckily you are alive and well 💪
You are such an inspiration ❤
BIG love spartan sis ❤❤❤
More great insight, top video Ross!💪🏼 Any more plans to do some events like the wintered event?
10000% brother!! 🤩 already plotting a summer one with PHD 🤩
Very inspiring and kind of you to read, like and reply to so many of the comments. You're such a jolly fellow, one of the most jolly I've ever seen. We need more jollyness! Ahoi mate
Great Video Ross!
I once contracted sepsis from dirt that got into my blood stream. I ran one of those Tough Mudders and cut my toenails short the night before..I had no idea how vital decent toe nail length is to survival 😂
The sepsis tracked up both my legs and 2 days later and I ended up in hospital unable to walk.
Both big toenails had to be cut off to clean the infected toes..it was grim!
I hope this is a warning to others!
Your commitment to not giving in is what helps me train harder if you can swim for 6 hr stints for months I can train hard for a hour a day and get fitter,you are a inspiration just read the first 2 books they are very good and helpful 👍
Loved your books and now have seen Videos of you for the first time. You are a huge inspiration, mate 😎🙌🏻🤙🏼
I didn't know Rabdo was a thing! It's interesting to me is how quickly you appear to have recovered from it. The worst injury I ever witnessed happened to a friend of mine in high school. He tried to beat the school squat record. As he went down in to the squat, his inner quad on his right leg snapped off the bone and the whole mass of muscle shot into his groin. He dropped the weight, lots of screaming, he fainted, and needed surgery to reattach his ligament.
OH 😬 brother I’m literally holding my quad reading this 😬 that’s brutal! Hope they’re ok now 🙏
@@RossEdgley He is thank you. His scar is wicked though
I could just Imagine the Doctors worried faces at Russ saying "remember to thank all the people on the cruise ship" 😂
Very interesting video... Thanks Ross team!!!
Wow never thought 💭 you have to go through all this . All the best in your second challenge
Just did Everest Base Camp last month (Feb 2023). Woke up at 1am, hyperventilating with an Oxygen saturation of 46%. Luckily had hot flask of tea by my bed and a bowl of sugar. Spoon after spoon of sugar in my mouth followed by hot black tea. Managed to bring the heart rate under control and therefore, get enough oxygen into my lungs and subsequently into my various organs inc the brain. Lucky escape.
That's wild
Any long term issues or fatigue for a long time afterwards?
@@J-xo11 Absolutely none. Must be the 8000+ dives I've done. Lots of nitrogen build up over the years. Who knows?
@@tmsthailand yeah fair, thanks for the response bro
Was curious
Keep at it!
Thank you Ross for sharing youre adventures. Youre positiv attitude and view on swmming and sport as a whole is immensly inspiring........i started swimming regulary this january and it has become my meditation an a way to calm my mind. so my worst swimming injury: One sunday this june i went to the pool and wanted to do a nice short morning swim. So i didn´t pack any water oder food. I proceeded to get into a very peacefull state of mind an didn´t have the urge to stop swimming. i swam for about 3 hours straight without pause and about 8km until i got out of that state and felt a bit tired. when i got out of the pool i was really wobbly on my feet and proceeded to drink 3 cokes, eat a burger, chips, icecream and a lot of biscuits at the poolrestaurant. even it beeing over 30°C outside i was really cold and my pulse was at about 40 beats/min...... when i finally wobbled home it took a 2 hour nap on the couch to get back on my feet and feeling ok again :) lesson learned, always bring something to drink and food :) thanks again Ross for sharing bits of youre lifes story. youre a legend.
Youve consider so many things that can influence your performance that you missed probably one of the most important one, wich is weather. Nutrition, training, sleeping, blood tests, and who even know what more. Ross , even under those extrene conditions, you pushed your limit eveng furder beyond any human being could even expet. For the next time, just one adviced from a little mortal who get tons of motivation from ypur videos and speeches, CHECK THE WEATHER LOCATION, let all that hard work pay off. Keep rocking Ross, you Legend!
Just curious what you’re doing to combat hypothermia or hyperthermia in the next swim💪
OH good question brother!! Just far better prep choosing locations and will only go when conditions are good 🙏
@@RossEdgleyAwesome to hear broski, just find the midpoint between both extremes😂🔱
As you know, the final result was worth every second of pain!
amen brother!!! plus the celebratory cheesecake tasted SO GOOD 🙂
To the absolute limit, and then a little more. You absolute savage 🔥
Woah never even considered these issues and what the human body has to go through. I thought it would be just training, pace, calories and support. Woah just woah to your challenges 😮💪💪
I'm just impressed that Ross was able to push himself to the point of almost death. That's insane
You’re an inspiration big man. Rugby- knee hyper extended, grade 3 PCL tear, meniscus tear and broken tibia. Back of my leg was as purple as Barney the dinosaur
With all the respect in the world u are one crazy guy truly inspirational though
I was all set to try a long swim but now I think I'll give it a miss 🤣
Haha 😂 oh no but the pizza after is worth it haha 😂
Wow… you are a super human. I have had many sport injuries with a few requiring surgery BUT the worst was when I accidentally dropped a 10 lb weight from squat height on my big toe with no shoes on. I crushed my toe and my bone popped out through my nail bed. Initially shock and then pain so horrible it put me into shock lol (for real actually) 😳
dilute the potency of the stimuli 👍💪.
So much respect for you brother. Taking your body to the limit takes a different kind of mentality. My worst swimming injuries it's just a shoulder tendinitis and the classic rotator cuff, acromion and bursitis. Just finished an Oceanman of 10k last October and that's the farthest I've gone...for now haha I do mean to keep pushing. You should come to Mexico and do the cross between Cancun and Isla Mujeres!! probably i'll be a warmup for you haha but it's such a wonderful swim. Take care LEGEND!
Hi Ross, New to the channel and really like the content.Thank you. I’ve been a (pool) swimmer for 40+ years. I recently watched the Nyad movie (on Netflix) with the Mrs and was wondering if you fancied a crack at that swim at some point?
Dude! Those injuries are insane…you almost got boiled like a lobster! 😬😬😬😬😬 there is something incredible about surviving injuries like that though, and then to be able to laugh about them afterwards. It’s a cool thing when pain becomes your friend.
Anyhoo, not really an injury, but I gave birth to my son in a tub at my house and I’ve never felt more victorious in my life than when I was holding this new little life while sitting in a pool of my own blood 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I didn’t know one person had that much blood to bleed but here I was bathing in it and not thinking twice about if I’d have any left to live on LOL good times
My first Jiu Jitsu competition I still can't remember thanks to a secondary concussion (a bad throw 2 weeks before had given me a mild concussion which meant i shouldn't have completed). Took up judo to get over my fear of being thrown so i could keep training and competing. My first judo competition ended with surgery to fix my radius and ulnar bones, both of which were snapped clean through. Despite those bad starts I've keep going back to the mats and am now purple belt in Jiu Jitsu and yellow belt in judo.
This guy is a living legend but be careful man as a doctor i fear for your health. You're most amazing tho!
Hello sweet soul Ross: what I'd like to know: I know you don't complain much but how did you feel when you had these high CK values? I once had rhabdomyolysis in my legs because of a brutal leg-workout with a (at that time) relatively untrained body... Even if I had severe muscle soreness several times in my life, it did not compare to what I experienced with rhabdo. You just mentioned in the video that you were very fatigued, but was it as painful as the high values would suggest? And did your whole body hurt or was it just in specific bodyparts like shoulders/chest/legs?
Luv you tom your a hero of mine brother
I tore every crucial ligament in my knee, broke my shin, broke my ankle, busted both meniscus and dislocated three toes, all on the same leg.
The first thing my dad told me when he came to see me at the hospital was “Tis but a scratch”.
At the time, not funny, looking back, only a little…
Thanks for your videos Ross, you’re a legend
Brutal, have you recovered fully from that?
@@rapscallion9161 Pretty much. It happened in 2018, and after 2 years I got a final check by the surgeon, and he said everything was good to go. The issue I still have, is more like a lack of trust, although it sounds weird. I wasn’t able to walk for like a year, so even now 6 years later, I still have to force myself to put equal weight on my legs when for example squatting or deadlifting
@@Emillofootball yeah I can’t imagine how tough it’ll be to re-programme your body. I only had an arthroscopy for plicae and I’m 8 months in, just about seeing light at the end of the tunnel. It’s good to know that even with an injury as traumatic as yours you have made a decent recovery.
Exciting
You legend! you commented quicker than i could and i set it live, haha! huge thank you!
This year I have been a bit unlucky. I broke my rist, my finger, and my toe all on seperate occasions and all were sport injurys. I never broke something before. This year all the luck I have been having finally caught up with me.
I had a CK level of 145,000 back in 2020, I spent 6 days in the hospital getting pumped with sodium bicarb. It's wild hearing your kidneys are about to fail when all you feel is above average muscle soreness
Maybe try to swim in normal conditions next time? Jk, your an animal Ross, looking forward to your next attempt!
Haha oh AGREED brother!!! lessons learned, haha... big thank you and hope your training is going well!
What I would love to see is you swimming in the freshwater lakes in the middle of k’gari island (Fraser island) in QLD, Aus. Such a magical place.
I'm over here thinking "Ah that 10k I ran today sure made my knee hurt". Absolutely mental.
I once chipped off the tip of my left elbow. Most of the triceps tendon was attached to the bone fragment, but some was still attached to the rest of the bone - thus rupturing the tendon lengthwise. That takes 6 months of healing, before it will hold up to sudden loading againg. I had a job at the time, where sudden loads could not be ruled out, so I had to stay home for 6 months.
I now have 12 % decreased function of my left hand.
And the root cause of them all!? ... Athletic Insanity!
Man, you're such a beast for wanting to go back at it.
This time though, we want a happy finish and the longest swim record beaten! Not a record for the most failed number of attempts!
Happy Training!
Doc : " Ross you were so close to ... well basically stroke & death "
Ross : " yeah but my kidneys were great tho right ?! "
😂LEGEND
Broken hip is my worst injury by far, on crutches for 16 weeks gets boring after a while. Tripped on a kerb while out running and down like a ton of bricks,, thought id pulled something but couldn't get up😗 Started to look where i'm going nowadays
I've managed to avoid most bad injuries but I did dislocate my pinky finger player aussie footy and it was at a right angle. I did get nearly hypothermic in my first 5km open water race when I was 12, the conditions were super choppy and it was about 16 degrees in the middle of summer, I got out, felt fine albeit a little cold and the surf lifesavers wrapped me in a space blanket and took me to the showers. In Feb 2018 (I was 17), we did a 2.5km open water and the entire course was just blubber jellyfish everywhere I got stung bad enough that it welted up. Twice in 10km swims (one was a race in 2017 and one was training for a 24km Dec last year), I have gotten such bad sunburn that my back was all blistered up.
My brother broke his hand in a lane rope, he got it caught and twisted to get it out and he ended up hypothermic in the middle of summer on a 28 degree day, he was swimming a 2.5km no wetsuit and ended up disorientated, then our teammate swam past and he pulled out of the race. Where I never swim with a wetsuit, he can't swim open water without a wetsuit, he's 176cm and 62kg so he just freezes.
Who knows, I may end up with a few more because I want to swim Bass Strait unassisted which is about 200km. I've already done a 24km swim (6 hours 6 minutes, with the current), hope to do the english channel but I've got to get better with the cold and then a lot more training to do Bass Strait, though aiming to do within the next 10 years.
By the way, I'm having a shoulder pain after being off from workout all together. I stopped working out to accompany my wife when she was on labor. Unfortunately, my first daughter was stillborn and I needed some time off even from work. But when I started the push ups again, somehow I lost my strength from the time off and now I'm left with a shoulder pain, somewhere on the inside part.
Adding (poorly) to the gruesome comment section…. My worst injury was a broken little toe 🤣
Haha 😂 you legend! That actually HURTS haha 😂
One my top 5
Stupidly decided to ride my over excited horse without a saddle. This resulted in me trying badly to impersonate rodeo cowboy until I was ejected over the horses head.
On landing like 95kg dead weight I felt a sharp pain in my hip. I put the horse in her field then drove to the hospital. I was kept in for a couple of days before being released. Apparently I had just swelling and was free to do light exercise.
I continued to jog, lift weights etc for a further 3 weeks. Until my leg turned out 90 degrees and it looked like bone poking out the top of my leg.
Turns out I had been running around on a full Brocken hip all that time.
One hip replacement later I am about to do my first 10k run next week and triathlon in May.
So I reckon I we give Ross a broken hip handicap I might stand slightly more on a chance lol
Before I start playing this video, my mind was like, "Hmm.. Shoulder pain must be up there." After watching the video, I don't think this is about fitness anymore.
Broken femur, torn miniscus, torn mcl, partially torn acl. All at the same time during American football.
my worst injurie was when i rode my bicycel home from work late one night and crashed and broke my femur neck, ended up with some extra screws in my leg and daily pains since then😅
This is absolutely wild. Just casually picking bits of your tongue off like you've just brushed with Oral-B whitening toothpaste. Can I ask though, What skin care products and body wash did you have to use in order to heal up that nasty chafing?
So miss swimming.... But really can't just leave the babies to wait aside a while I paw the water....
Someday.
Aw big big love Spartan swim sis x x
I am, of course, a complete layman, so do forgive me Ross but surely a 20,000 Creatine Kinase reading would be akin to eating through significants amount of muscle in one go?!
I broke 4 ribs, my wrist and 3 fingers when I was 13 during an ice hockey game. Just the way I fell with another kid on top of me at full speed into steel posts. Not a fantastic scenario. Then there was my compound fractured collarbone from a cycling injury.
Crushed my calcaneous (heel) bone into five pieces. All the tendons had to find new routes around it so they hurt and yanked on my hamstrings for a year or so. Three years on and I’m still limping… but still running. :)
My worst injury was a complete rupture of my Achilles tendon on a karate seminar. The worst part is that it was during the warmup. 😅🤦
OH 🙈 😬 that’s brutal!!! Aww hope you’re ok and healed back stronger
Sorry, I can't match your injury profile all I can add is a few torn muscles and a mild Jellyfish sting. Keep the videos coming they're fantastic.
Aww jellies do NOT tickle 🙈 haha 😂 hope your training is going well and big thank you x x x
So those Doctors confirmed you are a Demigod 🤣
Amazing how shark attacks aren't in the list of injuries from long distance swimming in open water. Yet, whenever i tune into the discovery channel i witness testimonies of folks being bitten, one after the other whilst splashing knee-high deep off the shore lol
Very interesting, the veneers are terrible tho 😂
Man mr ballen who talks about weird mystery story has a whole story related with what you said about halucinating a boat and it might résolve it
I did a few 8k swims, 1 10k swims, I had some calf cramps which felt like my leg was going to explode!!… watching this, I will just man up and keep swimming…..lol
My back hurts a bit.
You're built entirely differently lol I can't compete injury-wise. I'll list them below for shits and gigs haha!
concussion (Muay Thai)
Broken Ribs (Kickboxing)
Herniated Disc (Kickboxing)
Sciatica (Kickboxing)
Smashed metacarpal (Kickboxing)
Torn groin (Kickboxing)
nearly broke my back pulling a wardrobe on top of myself as a kid. Couldn't walk for 6 weeks!
ripped my arm open and could see the elbow bone clearly (Skateboarding)
Smashed my teeth out on an old school metal till as a kid lol (Running downstairs)
And the proud owner of 36 scars, (last time I counted) Due to Mountain Biking and other dumb stuff!
Looking at it written down, I'm actually quite proud of that list. Good health everyone! haha...
My worst injury, I got stung in the bottom of the foot by a stingray. I chose not to go to the hospital. About a month later it was still hurting when I walked. So I took a knife to my own foot and found a 1/4 inch barb that had broken off inside my foot.
Worst injury is a ruptured ACL! Turned and it popped, got surgery in 8 days wish me luck!
After 25m I got foot cramp! Hands down the worse 30 seconds of my life.
I once body checked a gut so hard with baseball that my femur broke..... pretty impressive
Those hand and foot water wrinkles and amazing to look at. Bet they werent too pleasant to experience. Just a few from a bath on the finger tips are enough for me!
Worst thing i ever did was when i fell down during a basketball game, I dislocated my knee. Didn't want to stop playing so I started hitting my knee with a door to get it back in to its location. #notsmart
There's a company called mugiro sells a neck protector for wetsuits that might help?. Your neck injuries look worse every time i see them lol
You’re a HERO!! Looking into this now 🤩 🙏
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If he can swim around England he can can swim anywhere
I bet them roids help massively with recovery too, right ross?
Bro is Australian version of david goggins
Just hope Ross doesn't end up like the crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin.
Aww LOVED that dude!!! And agreed.. me neither 😬
Natty or not?
shoulda just brought some peanut butter and bread to deal with the jellyfish mate coulda made a sandwich lad good video big fella was interesting as mate
Hahaha 🤣 you legend!! Next time I’m doing this haha 😂 😉