Quote: (09-30-2010 11:59 AM)speakeasy Wrote:
34lbs of muscle in a month without roids?? Yarite...This guy would be the world's #1 fitness trainer if that was true. And someone will have to tell me what he says about being fully rested off 2hrs sleep. Not buying these wild claims.
Honestly I do not understand why some people praise Tim Ferris so much. I've read "four hours workweek", and it is a typical self-improvement book, with 50% of basic common sense and 50% of strategy which worked for author, but would unlikely work for anyone else. This one is probably similar.
What really amazes me is the amount of people who still think there is some sacred knowledge in getting rich/getting fit, and that one who knows it can skip all hard work and shortcut to the result. Of course it doesn't work.
PS. An example: I will speculate that by using the "four hours of gym time" phrase he means "four hours of WORKING time spent in gym", and not just four one-hour visits of gym in a month. Considering that an average time per set for me is 15 seconds, a set of three would take 45 seconds. Eight different exercises make a workout, meaning a typical 60 minute workout in a gym is roughly 45*8 = 360 seconds or 6 minutes of "gym time". Applying the same logic, 240 minutes (4 hours) in gym mean 40 such workouts a month. Not a surprise anymore, heh?