Record Breaker - He is the Fittest Man in the World, and He's Got 125 Records to Prove It

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Paddy Doyle. Record Breaker - He is the Fittest Man in the World, and He's Got 125 Records to Prove It

DEDICATION

CONTENTS

ATTACK!

BRUISER

ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES

HEADBANGER

THE RED BERET

GOING THE EXTRA MILE

TO SURVIVE IS TO WIN

FIT TO FIGHT

BEWARE OF SMALL MEN

EXPLOSIVE POWER

FITNESS AND ENDURANCE

STRENGTH AND STAMINA

BRAINS AS WELL AS BRAWN

TOUGH AT THE TOP

25 NOVEMBER 2001

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This book is dedicated to my late mother, Bridget Doyle, my late father Patrick Doyle, my late brother Edward Doyle, my sister and brother Bridget and Declan, my fiancée Samantha Cartwright, my uncle John Derwin, my friend and loyal supporter Desi Clifton, my coach Ralph Farquarson, my friends Graham Petrie, David O’Connor, Bryan Vernum, David Chubb, Paul Jones, Nigel Perry, Wayne Bernstein, Richard Hopkins, WUMA president Danny Ryan, Stewart Newport, Ralf Laue and Dean Gould, Alan Ashes – Senior Team Leader of the World Association of Special Forces. Also, to the army regiments I served with and was attached to: A Company Royal Fusiliers Reserve Regiment Birmingham, 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment, 23 SAS Reserve Midlands Regiment, Royal Auxiliary Reserves Units 4624 and 504 Infantry Squadron. Leon Hickman of the Birmingham Evening Mail, and Carl Chin, Publisher and Professor of History at Birmingham University.

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But sport isn’t about money. It’s the winning that counts. It’s the will to win, regardless of the level you’re at. Until my retirement in November 2001, I competed in a number of minority sports, from circuit training to strength, speed and stamina, from boxing to the martial arts. I didn’t focus on just one particular strength or aspect of my body. I was an all-rounder. I excelled in several disciplines. My grandfather would challenge people to run against him and I was just the same; I’d check out the record books, looking for a challenge. If I thought I could beat a record, I’d train for it and go for it. I got my competitive spirit from my grandfather; he had that sporting will. He was a hard character, a tough one. I think that’s how you had to be in those days to get on. And I’ve inherited that from him too: the capacity to focus, to be disciplined. He had a mindset and the level of commitment that I’ve got, so I reckon it’s in the genes.

Grandfather Derwin ran his own taxi business in Dublin. He made golf clubs, patented a car battery carrier and he supported seven children. He was a goer and trier. When I’d broken a record for, say, fitness and endurance, my uncles and aunts would say, ‘You’ve got that fighting spirit from your grandad.’ They could see his approach to a sporting challenge in my attitude. They saw it in my body language, the way I projected myself and my physical mannerisms. A while back I saw a photograph of the man himself: broken nose and cauliflower ears, probably from the boxing. Cauliflower ears are the result of blood clots that form when your ears are pounded. You don’t see many these days because people wear head guards. My nose was broken in a fight, but it was a clean break and it was reset.

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