Winter fitness in the Secret Service

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Ian Fleming’s stories about the jet-setting secret agent James Bond are classics of the genre, even as their 1950s values are amusingly outmoded. For any man’s man looking to get in shape this winter, follow the routine from Fleming’s second novel, Live And Let Die (1954):

  1. Fly to the Caribbean
  2. Cut down smoking from 60 to 10 cigarettes per day
  3. Cut out drinking
  4. Swim a mile down the beach and run a mile back
  5. Spend the rest of the day scuba diving
  6. Wind down with half an hour of massage
  7. Dine on fish and fruit and eggs. Bond loves scrambled eggs and even has his own recipe, with finely chopped chives whisked into the mix. 
  8. Oh, and served with pink champagne (Taittinger is advised) and low music.

Via Oliver Spencer