World's fittest book

I'm a bit torn on reviewing this book into stars, as it depends on what the expectations are. I have a huge mancrush on Ross Edgley - I mean, who wouldn't have. He has done amazing things and the stories in the book are pure gold which alone would warrant a pure five star review. As some reviewers have said, the nutrition and training parts remain a bit thin, but that's to be expected already based on the subtitle of the book. You simply cannot expect to get a very deep understanding of everything in one book, but that is not really the point of the book either. The point really is to make the reader think about fitness by giving good foundations and some more specific advise on developing different attributes and intentionally leave the peaks of the pyramids that are built on these foundations open, as our knowledge is ever evolving. The basic truths less. The same applies to the nutrition aspect of the book, which, I think remained somewhat thinner than the training part in practical terms. Although the main take home is that even the author came to the same end result with three very different diets (although this word is frowned upon).

In the end I like the fact that the bushido of the book that closes the book includes very sound advise, especially on the fact that you are (or should be) the best expert in yourself and that you should be sceptical about everything including the book itself.

After all this appraisal one might wonder why it is not a five star review and I really don't have a clear answer to that. I loved the book, but when I finished it, there remained a feeling that it was lacking. I don't know what, but something.

I guess it's four stars instead of five, because I really wanted more. Maybe even a promise that there will be sequels that go deeper into the subjects would have sufficed and if they would appear from somewhere, I might change my mind and rate this as a five star foundation book for everything else.