Svava Sigbertsdottir - The Viking Method: Your Nordic Fitness and Diet Plan for Warrior Strength in Mind and Body

FOR MY PAST, WHICH MADE ME DREAM AND DARE AND NEVER SURRENDER. AND FOR MY FUTURE, WHICH INSPIRES ME, PUSHES ME AND STRIVES ME TO CONSTANTLY BECOME MORE.
THIS BOOK IS FOR MY MOTHER AND FOR MY DAUGHTER.

Any references to writing in this book refer to the original printed version. Readers should write on a separate piece of paper in these instances.

PENGUIN LIFE

UK | USA | Canada | Ireland | Australia
India | New Zealand | South Africa

Penguin Life is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com .

First published 2019

Copyright Svava Sigbertsdottir 2019

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Cover design: Smith & Gilmour
Photography: Philip North-Coombes

ISBN: 978-0-241-30950-6

Design and art direction: Smith & Gilmour
Photographer (portraits): Philip North-Coombes
Photographer (exercise): Sam Riley
Photographer (food): Smith & Gilmour Ltd
Food stylist: Vicki Keppel-Compton

This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorized distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the authors and publishers rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.

I LIVE IN AN AGE OF APPROVAL.

BUT I STAND APART FROM IT.

I LIKE MYSELF.

WHY DO I NEED LIKES?

I SEE MYSELF. WHY DO I NEED A MIRROR?

I AM MY OWN SOURCE OF POWER.

THERES NO CHANGE I CANNOT FACE,

NO CHALLENGE I CANNOT MEET,

NO TERRITORY I CANNOT CONQUER.

THE GOODNESS I WANT FROM

THE WORLD, I TAKE.

I WRITE MY OWN VALUES.

I STEER MY OWN SHIP.

I AM A VIKING.

How often have you heard that this is the simple secret to health and happiness like its that easy? And if you dont work out regularly and eat your greens, obviously this is because you are lazy, weak and just not trying hard enough.

But if staying in great health is so easy, why is it that so many of us struggle? What is stopping people from achieving their optimum health and happiness? The problem is that most fitness methods, trainers and the media fail to mention the most important part of a healthy lifestyle: your mentality. They approach fitness from the viewpoint of what it looks like externally. And that doesnt work in the long run. Your internal state is at the root of everything. Your actions and your lack of actions, your good and your bad choices and your level of self-worth all stem from your inner state. Therefore, you need to make that strong and healthy, to support and maintain any positive change you seek.

The Viking Method is different because it incorporates all of you: your mental and your physical strength. Furthermore, it starts from the inside, and works its way out.

The Viking Method is three-fold: Your mentality. Your training. Your nutrition.

The Viking Method is not about just getting you ready for the beach or crash-dieting in January to get your weight down after Christmas excess. Those are not our goals. They are too small, too fleeting. We have much bigger, deeper and more long-lasting goals.

The mental coaching, exercise programme and nutritional advice in these pages are all the tools you need in order to make change happen.