Sales blurb here
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/201...hour-body/
Looks fairly interesting however
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/201...hour-body/
Looks fairly interesting however
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- 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
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.
Quote: (09-30-2010 03:51 PM)oldnemesis Wrote:
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?
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.
Quote: (09-30-2010 04:09 PM)gringoed Wrote:
No. Read his blog post about this. He says that he spent 4 hours IN THE GYM . I think it was 8 30min workouts.
Quote: (09-30-2010 07:20 PM)mangadooza Wrote:
Book looks underwhelming. On his blog, he suggests you should consume 5k+ calories a day. Not only does eating that much eat up all your time (making the real cost of his plan much higher than the 4 hours of gym time), but if you're not a ectomorph like Tim, you'll put on a significant amount of fat.
Quote: (09-30-2010 03:51 PM)oldnemesis Wrote:
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?