Men's Health UK - July 2022

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IN THIS ISSUE
RECLAIM YOUR SUMMER TODAY
COVER CREDITS
PHOTOGRAPHY PEGGY SIROTA
ON THE COVER
P46 THE PEOPLE’S CHRIS
Hollywood A-lister Chris Pratt
reflects on the end of an era
P64 STATE OF THE NATION
Alastair Campbell and Rory
Stewart on how politics
harms wellbeing
P82 DARING ESCAPES
The 24 best adventures
the world has to offer
P100 REBUILDING BRIDGES
Film icon Jeff Bridges on
battling cancer and Covid
P120 MENTAL FITNESS
Your training plan for
emotional intelligence
P146 FINISHING TOUCHES
Has tops-off season come
around too fast? Here’s
your last-minute tone -up
The
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Returning to the dating game
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E DITOR’S LETTER
LET’S TAKE IT OUTSIDE – YOUR MIND WILL THANK YOU
There’s a lovely old Lemonheads song from the late restaurant kitchen. And while it’s true we do have our
1990s that has always occupied a soft spot. It’s called own guide to camping off the beaten track, it includes
The Outdoor Type and concerns the dashed hopes of a self-test to see whether you really were born to be
a young suitor attempting to woo his lover by professing wild, plus all the best kit, locations, skills and supplies
a shared fondness for the open air. ‘Always had a roof to make roughing it go as smoothly as possible.
above me, always paid the rent,’ sings Evan Dando. ‘But For the record, I consider myself to be an outdoor
I’ve never set foot inside a tent / Can’t build a fire to type – albeit a qualified one. I know from Men’s Health
save my life / I lied about being the outdoor type.’ finishing school that exposure to sunshine allows the
It’s not Wordsworth, admittedly. Not least because body to make more vitamin D, leading to stronger
Wordsworth was, of course, the bona fide outdoor bones, a bolstered immune system and increased
type. So much so that he pretty much cornered the resistance to cancer. But that’s not why I step outside
Romantic market in alfresco balladry. For Will, the for a lunchtime yomp as often as time allows. Pompous
wonders of nature were manifold – at once beautiful as I know it sounds, I do it because the rhythm of the
and overwhelming, restorative and run helps clear my mind, while the
invigorating, awe-inspiring and sound of nature helps refresh it. I like
fear-inducing. ‘I have felt / A presence doing the same on crisp autumn
that disturbs me with the joy / Of mornings, not because I know that
elevated thoughts,’ he famously wrote exercising in cold weather helps burn
in Tintern Abbey. Nature is ‘The fat, but rather because clean air,
anchor of my purest thoughts, the bronze leaves and blue sky simply
nurse, / The guide, the guardian of my make me happy. Plus, the dog loves it.
heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.’ I will never be the extreme
All of which is a rather tortuous way expeditionary sort. But I’d always
of saying that the great outdoors has rather be out than in. To my mind,
a tendency to divide popular opinion. there’s no better sight than a Tyrolean
For every trail-running, rock-climbing, vista on the first blue run of the day;
paragliding, Patagonia-wearing nature no better taste than a beer drunk
freak, there’s a city slicker who prefers while prodding a fire with a stick; no
gyms with perfumed changing rooms, better sound than the patter of rain
bedding with a high thread count, and on taut canvas; no better smell than
breakfast served with ironed napkins fresh sardines sizzling over crackling
and condiments in small jars. Yet charcoal. The best thing about the
these things needn’t be so binary. outside is that you can take it
We all know that the outside has however you want it. Whether you
much to recommend it from a health prefer your pursuits lung-busting
perspective, both physical and mental. or leisurely, it’s all good.
But that doesn’t mean that you need To reinforce the point, one of
to touch the void in order to get one’s my favourite outdoor pastimes is
salutary kicks. Equally, it doesn’t mean positively, literally pedestrian. I like
that wild camping evangelists can’t to walk – again with the dog, mostly
lose their metaphorical hair shirts mornings, often late evenings, rarely
every now and then and learn about with any particular place to go. It
upgrading the off-grid experience. What makes began during the first lockdown. Where once I would
the outdoors great is that there’s something in it have been rushing to catch the 7.49am train, suddenly
for everyone. This issue, then – The Outside Issue, I found myself wandering lonely as a cloud. More
naturally – is in part dedicated to reconciling these ideas. pertinently, where once I would have been tired and
Take our list of the world’s best bucket-list harried, suddenly I found myself calm and cogitative.
adventures, for instance. Yes, it includes scuba-diving By the time I sat down to work, I’d find that problems
between tectonic plates in near-freezing water, as well had been solved, ideas conjured, creativity stimulated.
as surfing in the Hebrides, also in near-freezing water. Rousseau had it that we think at walking pace,
But we’ve also divvied up our selections with a helpful and he was surely right. But I recently stumbled
key system ranging from white-knuckle to warm- across a line from the contemporary French
bottom – misplace a foot while free-solo climbing in philosopher Frédéric Gros that I think I might
Vietnam and the only fate that awaits you is a prefer: ‘Walking is the best way to go more slowly
refreshing dip in an aquamarine bay. Meanwhile, our than any other method that has ever been found.’
alternative barbecue feature isn’t, in fact, a crash course But enough of the pretension. My point is,
in chargrilling squirrel, but rather a masterclass in fire whatever your preferred pace, just get out there.
and smoke from some of the UK’s most exciting chefs,
bringing naked flames and burning coals into the
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