My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death. Bear Grylls More Quotes by Bear Grylls More Quotes From Bear Grylls As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it. Bear Grylls terrified grows Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves. Bear Grylls achievement belief For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast! Bear Grylls training keys moving Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise. Bear Grylls pain hurt running Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home. Bear Grylls christianity home joy As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down. Bear Grylls healthy meat trying Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that. Bear Grylls risk survival waiting Faith is personal if it's to be real. Bear Grylls being-real real ifs I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce. Bear Grylls zebras eye sheep One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave. Bear Grylls be-brave brave knows Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life. Bear Grylls people needs jesus The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself. Bear Grylls self-confidence climbing special To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere. Bear Grylls connections adventure people I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me. Bear Grylls snakes cameras broken I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items. Bear Grylls names opportunity past One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines. Bear Grylls vines exercise tree Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end. Bear Grylls survivor earthquakes looks I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest. Bear Grylls week yoga body When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home. Bear Grylls survival energy home And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across. Bear Grylls christian heart jesus
