Timothy Ferriss – The Four Hour Body
Last modified: February 10, 2011The following synopsis is from
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The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger… which 150 pages will you read?
Is it possible to:
Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?
Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?
Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.
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 …
After reading Tim Ferris first book this was highly anticipated by many. He is a brilliant marketer and just watching the process of how he released the book to take on big boys pre Christmas. He gave away holidays and incentives for buying in bulk and like with everything he does he wasn’t scared to experiment. When I first picked up the book even I was daunted by the size (over 550 pages). Once a book goes over 300 pages it can lose its appeal but Tim is upfront and says on the back cover ‘which 150 pages will you read?’
Topics include weight loss, reducing body fat, being able to increase a run from 5kmk to 50km and how to have incredible sex. Not everything will appeal to everyone and so it is refreshing that the book is laid out so well and encourages to read areas of interest and come back to other areas later.
It is unlike anything I have read before and talks about sports science and the human body in an easy to read format. The book is not overpriced just because it is thick.
Thus far I have only read the 150 pages of my choice and so will no doubt add to my thoughts on this at a later date when I read up on other areas.