A UK Kindle Triathlon No 1 Bestseller!
External Review
"Jaan is a legend, and a brilliant writer. If you need inspiration for becoming fitter, or entering a race someday, whatever your starting point, this book is a must read. Buy it for yourself or a friend" - Steve Truglia, Ex UK Special Forces, James Bond Stuntman, Guinness World Record Holder and Magician (creator/performer of the West End Cardshark Show)
Sample Amazon Reviews:
Scubascooby: “My First review on Amazon, but this book is just so good!”
Calica: “It is a genuinely great read, and…. will provide countless helpful tips and useful information.”
D Hammond: “Brilliantly honest and informative”
Amazon Customer: “This is a very good book…written from a light hearted view with plenty of humour.”
Matt: “Really well written, at the right level with good advice and humour. This book is a must for anybody interested or considering an iron distance event”
@zepalm: “…a brilliant mix of knowledge of the sport and humour…”
Glyn Baker: “…this book had me in equal measures of hysterics, sympathy and inspiration!”
J Mac: “…Jaan narrates his remarkable achievement with insight, honesty, objectivity, and most importantly, great humour”
CHAM: “An excellent, easy-to-read book, which is intelligently written with plenty of comic commentary. The write is entirely self-deprecating about the incredible challenge he has taken on and completed.”
Jeston: “A fantastic achievement and this book will be a great motivational tool.”
Caspar: “Jaan has done for ironman what Clarkson has done for motoring”
Chris Penner: “A great book even if you are not planning anything crazy like an Iron Man”
Starman: “Inspirational (and amusing) read”
Description
Jaan Larner is a big guy who enjoys the good things in life: food, drink and some (very) late nights every once in a while.
Not the ideal candidate for endurance sport you might think...?
But this is his story of going for the ultimate goal of finishing one of the hardest athletic challenges in the world:
The Ironman Triathlon
2.4 miles of open water swimming
112 miles of cycling
26.2 miles of running
Back to back and all within 17 hours.
Put another way, it’s the equivalent of swimming along the Thames between Tower Bridge and Westminster Bridge, cycling almost all the way round the M25 and then running the marathon…
On average 30% of those who enter, don't finish.
The Ironman Event organisers estimate that only 300,000 people have ever completed one.
That's 0.005% of the world's population or only 1 in 23,000
Which is roughly 2,800 people in the UK or 13,500 in the US.
In fact, there is a better chance of there being a catastrophic collision between an asteroid and the Earth in the next 100 years...and you dying in it (20,000 to 1 in case you were wondering) than becoming an Ironman.
You get the point…it’s really hard.
People were surprised that he would even consider it…
They were shocked when he actually entered...
They were amazed when he completed it.
This is the story of his transformation...
...From Fatboy to Ironman
The book includes:
Training schedules
Swimming drills
Weight training programs
Tabulated lessons and takeaways for each distance, discipline and training type
Advice on:
Kit selection
The 'mental game'
Nutrition
Useful websites, books and apps
Dealing with the aftermath
Plus
Detailed accounts of each triathlon distance:
Olympic,
Half ironman (70.3) and
Full Ironman (140.6)
Including all the successes and, more importantly, the failures.
All written in the author's distinctive light-hearted style.
Whether you are considering getting into shape or if you want to see if you can conquer one of the toughest endurance events of them all, this book has everything you need to get started and much more.
He did it, despite the odds.
Maybe you can, too…
External Review
"Jaan is a legend, and a brilliant writer. If you need inspiration for becoming fitter, or entering a race someday, whatever your starting point, this book is a must read. Buy it for yourself or a friend" - Steve Truglia, Ex UK Special Forces, James Bond Stuntman, Guinness World Record Holder and Magician (creator/performer of the West End Cardshark Show)
Sample Amazon Reviews:
Scubascooby: “My First review on Amazon, but this book is just so good!”
Calica: “It is a genuinely great read, and…. will provide countless helpful tips and useful information.”
D Hammond: “Brilliantly honest and informative”
Amazon Customer: “This is a very good book…written from a light hearted view with plenty of humour.”
Matt: “Really well written, at the right level with good advice and humour. This book is a must for anybody interested or considering an iron distance event”
@zepalm: “…a brilliant mix of knowledge of the sport and humour…”
Glyn Baker: “…this book had me in equal measures of hysterics, sympathy and inspiration!”
J Mac: “…Jaan narrates his remarkable achievement with insight, honesty, objectivity, and most importantly, great humour”
CHAM: “An excellent, easy-to-read book, which is intelligently written with plenty of comic commentary. The write is entirely self-deprecating about the incredible challenge he has taken on and completed.”
Jeston: “A fantastic achievement and this book will be a great motivational tool.”
Caspar: “Jaan has done for ironman what Clarkson has done for motoring”
Chris Penner: “A great book even if you are not planning anything crazy like an Iron Man”
Starman: “Inspirational (and amusing) read”
Description
Jaan Larner is a big guy who enjoys the good things in life: food, drink and some (very) late nights every once in a while.
Not the ideal candidate for endurance sport you might think...?
But this is his story of going for the ultimate goal of finishing one of the hardest athletic challenges in the world:
The Ironman Triathlon
2.4 miles of open water swimming
112 miles of cycling
26.2 miles of running
Back to back and all within 17 hours.
Put another way, it’s the equivalent of swimming along the Thames between Tower Bridge and Westminster Bridge, cycling almost all the way round the M25 and then running the marathon…
On average 30% of those who enter, don't finish.
The Ironman Event organisers estimate that only 300,000 people have ever completed one.
That's 0.005% of the world's population or only 1 in 23,000
Which is roughly 2,800 people in the UK or 13,500 in the US.
In fact, there is a better chance of there being a catastrophic collision between an asteroid and the Earth in the next 100 years...and you dying in it (20,000 to 1 in case you were wondering) than becoming an Ironman.
You get the point…it’s really hard.
People were surprised that he would even consider it…
They were shocked when he actually entered...
They were amazed when he completed it.
This is the story of his transformation...
...From Fatboy to Ironman
The book includes:
Training schedules
Swimming drills
Weight training programs
Tabulated lessons and takeaways for each distance, discipline and training type
Advice on:
Kit selection
The 'mental game'
Nutrition
Useful websites, books and apps
Dealing with the aftermath
Plus
Detailed accounts of each triathlon distance:
Olympic,
Half ironman (70.3) and
Full Ironman (140.6)
Including all the successes and, more importantly, the failures.
All written in the author's distinctive light-hearted style.
Whether you are considering getting into shape or if you want to see if you can conquer one of the toughest endurance events of them all, this book has everything you need to get started and much more.
He did it, despite the odds.
Maybe you can, too…
