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  • Published: 4 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529156225
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Hard Work Pays Off





Get fit with the Fittest Man on Earth - a revolutionary and cross-disciplinary guide to fitness, nutrition and positivity full of essential training and diet secrets

*The Sunday Times Bestseller*

Train with the Fittest Man on Earth - 5-time CrossFit Champion Mat Fraser.

No matter your level of fitness, no matter if you've never attempted CrossFit before, this book is your total training manual.

No one can say they're a better all-around athlete than Mat Fraser. Weightlifting, gymnastics, kettlebells, running, swimming, rowing, Strongman: he's relentlessly trained them all, so you don't have to.

In this ground-breaking book, Fraser reveals the secrets of his success to help you transform your own body and mind. Structured into sections on strength, endurance, speed, coordination, mental and recovery, Mat shares workouts, illustrations, techniques, recipes and advice. From push-ups to sprints, rope climbs to deadlifts, high-knee drills to swimming intervals, the book showcases CrossFit's uniquely wide-ranging and infinitely scalable approach to exercise. There is tailored advice for beginners, intermediates and advanced athletes.

So take this book to the gym. Write your personal records in the margins. Circle the illustrations of techniques you need to master. And most of all, do the workouts. Because Mat Fraser can promise you this: hard work pays off.

  • Published: 4 January 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529156225
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

Mat Fraser

Mathew Fraser is arguably the Fittest Man on Earth: the most successful and dominant CrossFit athlete in history, a 5 time CrossFit Games Champion (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020) and the only 6 time individual podium finisher. Prior to his CrossFit career, Fraser was also the 2009 Junior National Champion Weighlifter and son of Olympic athletes. Mat's journey to success is characterised by adversity, including fighting his way back to fitness after breaking his back in a training accident aged 19. Mat now shares his fitness secrets and insights across social media to a following of 2.4 million avid fans.

CrossFit is one of the world's largest participation fitness programmes. There are currently over 15,000 affiliated CrossFit gyms globally. 400,000 people compete in the CrossFit Open, the biggest sporting participatory event in the world.

Praise for Hard Work Pays Off

"The LeBron James of CrossFit."

TMZ Sports

"Mat Fraser isn't just the first and only 5-time 'Fittest Man on Earth' . . . he has cemented his status in many people's minds as the greatest CrossFit athlete in history."

Rogue Fitness

Mat's approach to training and life is truly inspiring

Adrienne Herbert, author of Power Hour

if you're wondering what made this guy the greatest of all time, read this book

Craig Richey
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