The 4-Hour Body
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings39
Average rating3.5
The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:
For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?
Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.
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I just wanted to read the sections on fat loss/the “slow carb diet” and the PAGG stack. Those were pretty informative and at generally the right level of detail that I require. The book is a good starting place for learning some of this stuff; if you try starting to learn about it by straight Googling, you're likely to get pretty overwhelmed pretty quickly.
That said, at least some (if not all/most) of the key material in the book is also on Ferriss' blog. For example, re: the basics of the slow carb diet: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/06/how-to-lose-20-lbs-of-fat-in-30-days-without-doing-any-exercise/
However, the whole tone of this book is written as if you're an idiot, by a person who is not a very good writer. You really get the sense that Ferriss had to meet some kind of page/words quota and so he tried to meet it by including long excerpts from emails/writings by other people. It's a really palpably lazily put together book.
I was also interested in the exercise section, but as a kettlebell/weight-lifting n00b, I found it pretty confusing. (Although I didn't check the online references for further clarification.)
I skimmed the section on sex and it looked pretty worthless to me, plus obnoxiously heteronormative, but might be helpful to some.
