A NEW BOOK BY MARC EDWARDS
You've tried the workout.
You've tried the diet..
Have you questioned who's running the show?
Taking Control is the framework behind everything Marc teaches, put into one book:
Reclaim your body, Unlock your mind, Connect to your soul.
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FOREWORD BY GEOFF THOMPSON
TAKING CONTROL:
BODY, MIND & SOUL
Marc Edwards introduces a fresh, unconventional perspective that flips the script on everything you’ve been told about achieving your goals, dreams and aspirations.
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FOREWORD BY GEOFF THOMPSON
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SIR LOYD GROSSMAN CBE
Every fix you've tried started in the wrong place
You've probably already tried to fix your body.
A new programme, a new diet, a new consistency hack or peptide stack.
Some of it worked, for a while but when it stopped working, the industry told you it was you.
Not enough discipline, not enough motivation, not enough grit.
Marc Edwards has spent more than twenty-five years on the mats and the gym floor, and taught thousands of people face to face, including other trainers & coaches.
What he's observed, over and over, is that the plan is rarely the actual problem. Nearly every fix people try starts and ends with behaviour, what to eat, when to train, how to structure the week. None of it touches the thing that's quietly deciding whether any of that behaviour holds.
Taking Control: Body, Mind, Soul is the book built to reach that thing.
You can reserve your copy today.
Body. Mind. Soul.
That's how change actually moves
Body is the Foundation: functional movement, corrective exercise, and the principles of long-term health over quick fixes. It's the entry point, not because it matters more than the rest, but because it's usually the only door people are willing to walk through first.
Mind is the Operating System. Once the body's moving, the real work starts: the stories, the loops, the invisible rules quietly deciding what you'll let yourself have. This is where the book hands you the A.R.T. method, in enough detail to actually use it.
Soul is the Furthest Reach. The part almost nobody talks about in a gym, and the part that gives the other two their weight. This is where the questions people usually only ask at 2am get an actual structure to sit inside.
There's no right or wrong door. Only the one that's in front of you right now.
This Sound Familiar?
For years we've been told to "find our purpose" and "chase what feels right".
It sounds inspiring but often leaves people feeling more stuck than free.
When people truly decide to make a major change in their life, their not just adjusting their plans, they're stepping toward a completely upgraded version of themselves.
That shift brings up deeper fears and hidden doubts that no quiz, check;ist or quick fix can truly address.
Why the fitness industry keeps selling you separate unfurnished rooms
Strip the branding off most fitness and self-help products and you find the same offer underneath, one room, sold as if it were the whole house.
A meal plan with nothing for your mindset.
A mindset course with nothing for your body. A retreat that touches your soul for a weekend and leaves you to rebuild the other two rooms alone once you're home.
None of those rooms are wrong. They're just incomplete on their own. In Marc's results only hold when they're built from the foundation up:
Body first, so there's somewhere for the rest to stand,
Mind next, so the body's gains don't quietly get sabotaged from underneath,
Soul last, so the whole structure has something worth carrying it forward for.
ACKNOWLEDGE, RECONCILE, TRANSFORM
This is the method that sits at the heart of change, the heart of the book.
Finding out why you are where you are offers clarity in how you can create a plan to overcome and transform your situation.
Training your body without ever looking at your mind just builds a stronger version of the same trapped person.
Introducing...
TAKING CONTROL Framework
A Revolutionary Approach That Helps You Fully
Take Control
The Taking Control framework™ reveals the key elements to overcoming the challenges of
Reclaiming your Body,
Unlocking your Mind and
Connecting to your Soul.
Inside, you'll find video courses, audios, ebooks and more.
TAKING CONTROL
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How The Transformation Works:
Unity
A single map for Body, Mind, and Soul, not three separate systems fighting each other.
Foundations
Six Foundation Principles.
The non-negotiables to get right before anything else works.
Transformation Zone
Making good ART
A working process for transforming what is actually stuck.
Personal
Movement and Nutrition built around your own body. Not a template borrowed from someone else's.
self, Self & SELF
A hierarchical structure for the Body, Mind and Soul.
Not a closing chapter of platitudes.
Not a one and done
A framework that keeps working after you've read it, not a plan with an end date.
When properly applied, this book can move you from managing symptoms to actually running the show.
Nothing here works in isolation. The body work makes the mind work possible, the mind work makes the soul work possible, and together they build something no single fix ever could: a version of you that doesn't need to be constantly rebuilt from scratch.
That's what's inside Taking Control: Body. Mind. Soul, and it's the same framework carried through to the education platform and into the Mentorship for anyone who wants to keep building once the book's finished.
What Others Are Saying
Proven Results
What You'll Find Inside
✅ SIX FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES
The non-negotiables Marc has watched hold up under every kind of client, in every kind of season, for over two decades
✅ A SURVIVAL SERIES
A working map of the priorities your body and mind default to under stress, and why forcing willpower above that hierarchy rarely works.
✅ HUMAN MECHANICS
Where mobility and stability actually meet, and why chasing one without the other quietly builds the next injury.
✅ FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION
Eating built around how your particular body actually runs, not a diet borrowed from someone else's biology.
✅ WORKING IN & WORKING OUT
The difference between training that depletes you and training that restores you, and why most coaches only teach one half of it.
✅ NEUROPLASTICITY
How a brain that's wired one way gets rewired, and what that has to do with the reality you keep finding yourself back inside.
✅ SOULFUL HIERARCHY
How to find the version of yourSELF that most people never get introduced to.
✅ BODY AS AN ENTRY POINT
Why physical training is the doorway rather than the destination, and how to use it that way from the first page.
✅ OUTLAST THE BOOK
What happens once you stop outsourcing your own development, in Marc's words and in the stories of the people he's coached.
Is This Right For You?
This is NOT for those who:
Want a single diet plan or template and nothing else. There are good ones out there, and this isn't one of them.
Want the results without ever looking at what's actually running the show underneath them.
Are certain the problem is entirely circumstance, and have no interest in looking any further than that.
Want to read about change more than they want to do the work on the page.
THIS IS FOR:
Anyone who is asking the bigger picture question:
Who Am I? Why Am I Here?
Anyone who's done real work on their body already, and can feel there's a ceiling that no new programme is going to move.
Anyone who suspects the missing piece was never another workout.
Anyone ready to give Mind and Soul the same seriousness they've already given their training.
The whole framework, in one hardback. First edition copies are limited.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Is this a fitness book, a psychology book, or something else?
It's built as three books in one, structured around Body, Mind, and Soul. Read it start to finish, or open it to whichever pillar is closest to where you actually are right now.
Do I need a background in Fitness, Martial Arts or Spirituality to follow it?
No. Marc has spent his career translating this material into plain language for thousands of clients and professionals, not a closed circle who already speak it.
I've already read a stack of self-help books. What's different here?
Most books stay in one room. This one is deliberately built so the work in Body changes what's possible in Mind, and the work in Mind accesses what's possible for your Soul.
When will my copy actually arrive?
This is a first edition pre-order, ahead of general release. Copies will ship as soon as the print run is ready, and you'll be emailed the moment yours is on its way.
Is there any pressure to join a course or programme afterwards?
None. It's referenced honestly inside for anyone who wants to go further, never sprung on you at the end. The book stands completely on its own.
MARC EDWARDS
Marc Edwards is a personal coach and empowerment specialist who has spent more than twenty-five years educating people on their health, fitness & wellbeing.
Including other coaches and health professionals, Marc has taught over eight thousand people. He holds a 6th Dan Black Belt, and founded a Female only Empowerment Initiative, Pink Belt Kickboxing in 2012.
Taking Control, he says, is a philosophy, and his door stays open to questions.
Taking Control: Body. Mind. Soul is his first full-length book, carrying a foreword from BAFTA-winning writer Geoff Thompson.
Reclaim your body.
Unlock your mind.
Connect to your soul.
Reserve your hardback first edition of Taking Control: Body. Mind. Soul today.
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