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Title: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: ghettoracer on January 02, 2011, 02:28:12 am
A friend recommended this book to me.  I was curious if anyone else have read it yet?  The description sounds interesting...  some of the reviews on amazon are decent.  but this dude is makes $ on motivational stuff and self promotion so maybe it isn't all that it is cracked up to be...

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5036664645_e8b1b68979_o.jpg)

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/09/29/the-4-hour-body/

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 men and women.

From the gym to the bedroom, it’s all here, and it all works.


YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each):
How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.

* How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)
* How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice
* How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time
* How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested
* How to produce 15-minute female orgasms
* How to triple testosterone and double sperm count
* How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks
* How to reverse “permanent” injuries
* How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months
* How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit
        
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.  There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.

You don't need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.

That’s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: DamienZ on January 02, 2011, 12:23:01 pm
lol, the book description is just too funny :wowthatwasnutswtf:

i should write a ridiculous book and hope that i sell it to some people that believe everything... it should work -> there are enough people buying squatflex lol
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: ghettoracer on January 02, 2011, 12:35:19 pm
American's are always looking to "buy" their way out or anything "quick & easy".  so there are always suckers for that sort of product...
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: LBSS on January 02, 2011, 01:01:43 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: DamienZ on January 02, 2011, 02:12:16 pm
ill name my book the 3 hour body!
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: Raptor on January 02, 2011, 03:08:43 pm
Mine will be "25 hours of Heaven".
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: adarqui on January 04, 2011, 12:50:42 am
(http://i.imgur.com/Iyti5.png)
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: Raptor on January 04, 2011, 04:49:01 am
I really like the "8" in that picture. Really big cojones.
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: mike.1283 on February 08, 2011, 07:29:01 am
A friend recommended this book to me.  I was curious if anyone else have read it yet?  The description sounds interesting...  some of the reviews on amazon are decent.  but this dude is makes $ on motivational stuff and self promotion so maybe it isn't all that it is cracked up to be...

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5036664645_e8b1b68979_o.jpg)

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/09/29/the-4-hour-body/

I had read good reviews about it and heard good things about it (bb.com forums), there was some crappy version being posted online for d/l (someone scanned some of it into a comp made it into a pdf), so you can find parts of it I think.
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: LBSS on February 08, 2011, 10:31:37 am
Couldn't find this before, but here's the NY Times shitting all over the book: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html).

A typical quote from the review:

Quote
Here’s a better analogy: “The 4-Hour Body” reads as if The New England Journal of Medicine had been hijacked by the editors of the SkyMall catalog. Some of this junk might actually work, but you’re going to be embarrassed doing it or admitting to your friends that you’re trying it. This is a man who, after all, weighs his own feces, likes bloodletting as a life-extension strategy and aims a Philips goLite at his body in place of ingesting caffeine.
Title: Re: The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
Post by: adarqui on February 08, 2011, 03:20:39 pm
Couldn't find this before, but here's the NY Times shitting all over the book: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/books/07book.html).

A typical quote from the review:

Quote
Here’s a better analogy: “The 4-Hour Body” reads as if The New England Journal of Medicine had been hijacked by the editors of the SkyMall catalog. Some of this junk might actually work, but you’re going to be embarrassed doing it or admitting to your friends that you’re trying it. This is a man who, after all, weighs his own feces, likes bloodletting as a life-extension strategy and aims a Philips goLite at his body in place of ingesting caffeine.

hahahahah