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A revolutionary approach to body transformation from the international bestselling author of The 4-Hour Work Week
Do you want to lose fat, double testosterone, get the perfect posterior or have a fifteen-minute female orgasm? Whatever your physical goal, The 4-Hour Body eclipses every other health manual by sharing the best kept secrets in the latest science and research to provide new strategies for redesigning the human body.
And you don’t need to exhaust yourself. International bestselling author, Timothy Ferriss, helps you reach your true genetic potential in 3-6 months with a commitment of less than four hours per week. You can pick and choose from a menu of options, from simple to extreme, for dramatic body changes.
Based on over 15 years of research and with of personal stories, amazing before and after photos, recipes and sidebars, The 4-Hour Body will give unbelievable results and change the way you look forever.
About the Author
Tim Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company's 'Most Innovative Business People of 2007', is an angel investor and author of the original no.1 New York Times bestseller The 4-Hour Work Week, which has been published in 35 countries. He has been featured by more than 100 media outlets, including the New York Times, The Economist, Time, Forbes, Fortune and CNN. He has worked with world-class athletes, speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and since 2003 has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.
"Mr. Ferriss makes difficult things seem very easy." NY Times
| Start Here | |
| T$inner, Bigger, Faster, Stronger? How to Use This Book | p. 2 |
| Fundamentals-First and Foremost | |
| The Minimum Effective Dose: From Microwaves to Fat-loss | p. 17 |
| Rules That Change the Rules: Everything Popular Is Wrong | p. 21 |
| Ground Zero-Getting Started and Swaraj | |
| The Harajuku Moment: The Decision to Become a Complete Human | p. 36 |
| Elusive Body Fat: Where Are You Really? | p. 44 |
| From Photos to Fear: Making Failure Impossible | p. 58 |
| Subtracting Fat | |
| Basics | |
| The Slow-carb Diet I: How to Lose 1.4 st (9kg) in 30 Days Without Exercise | p. 70 |
| The Slow-carb Diet II: The Finer Points and Common Questions | p. 79 |
| Damage Control: Preventing Fat Gain When You Binge | p. 100 |
| The Four Horsemen of Fat Loss: PAGG | p. 114 |
| Advanced | |
| Ice Age: Mastering Temperature to Manipulate Weight | p. 122 |
| The Glucose Switch: Beautiful Number 100 | p. 133 |
| The Last Mile: Losing the Final 5-101b (2.3-4.5kg) | p. 149 |
| Adding Muscle | |
| Building the Perfect Posterior (or Losing 7 + st/45 + kg) | p. 158 |
| Six-minute Abs: Two Exercises That Actually Work | p. 174 |
| From Geek to Freak: How to Gain 2.4st (15.4kg) in 28 Days | p. 181 |
| Occam's Protocol I: A Minimalist Approach to Mass | p. 193 |
| Occam's Protocol II: The Finer Points | p. 214 |
| Improving Sex | |
| The 15-minute Female Orgasm-Part Un | p. 226 |
| The 15-minute Female Orgasm-Part Deux | p. 237 |
| Sex Machine I: Adventures in Tripling Testosterone | p. 253 |
| Happy Endings and Doubling Sperm Count | p. 264 |
| Perfecting Sleep | |
| Engineering the Perfect Night's Sleep | p. 275 |
| Becoming Uberman: Sleeping Less with Polyphasic Sleep | p. 287 |
| Reversing Injuries | |
| Reversing ôPermanentö Injuries | p. 294 |
| How to Pay for a Beach Holiday with One Hospital Visit | p. 319 |
| Pre-hab: Injury-Proofing the Body | p. 324 |
| Running Faster and Farther | |
| Hacking the NFL Combine I: Preliminaries-Jumping Higher | p. 347 |
| Hacking the NFL Combine II: Running Faster | p. 354 |
| Ultra-endurance I: Going from 5K (3 miles) to 50K (30 miles) in 12 Weeks-Phase I | p. 367 |
| Ultra-endurance II: Going from 5K (3 miles) to 50K (30 miles) in 12 Weeks-Phase II | p. 386 |
| Getting Stronger | |
| Effortless Superhuman: Breaking World Records with Barry Ross | p. 406 |
| Eating the Elephant: How to Add 45 kg (100 lb) to Your Bench Press | p. 424 |
| From Swimming to Swinging | |
| How I Learnt to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days | p. 434 |
| The Architecture of Babe Ruth | p. 444 |
| On Longer and Better Life | |
| Living Forever: Vaccines, Bleeding and Other Fun | p. 454 |
| Closing Thoughts | |
| Closing Thoughts: The Trojan Horse | p. 465 |
| Appendices and Extras | |
| Helpful Measurements and Conversions | p. 470 |
| Getting Tested-From Nutrients to Muscle Fibres | p. 472 |
| Muscles of the Body (Partial) | p. 477 |
| The Value of Self-experimentation | p. 478 |
| Spotting Bad Science 101: How Not to Trick Yourself | p. 485 |
| Spotting Bad Science 102: So You Have a Pill … | p. 495 |
| The Slow-carb Diet-194 People | p. 499 |
| Sex Machine II: Details and Dangers | p. 505 |
| The Meatless Machine I: Reasons to Try a Plant-based Diet for Two Weeks | p. 514 |
| The Meatless Machine II: A 28-Day Experiment | p. 530 |
| Bonus Material | p. 545 |
| Spot Reduction Revisited: Removing Stubborn Thigh Fat | |
| Becoming Brad Pitt: Uses and Abuses of DNA | |
| The China Study: A Well-intentioned Critique | |
| Heavy Metal: Your Personal Toxin Map | |
| The Top 10 Reasons Why BMI Is Bogus | |
| Hyperclocking and Related Mischief: How to Increase Strength 10% in One Workout | |
| Creativity on Demand: The Promises and Dangers of Smart Drugs | |
| An Alternative to Dieting: The Body Fat Set Point and Tricking the Hypothalamus | |
| Acknowledgements | p. 547 |
| Photo and Illustration Credits | p. 549 |
| Index | p. 551 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780091939526
ISBN-10: 0091939526
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 592
Published: 3rd January 2011
Dimensions (cm): 23.2 x 15.7
x 4.0
Weight (kg): 0.78
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