The 4-Hour Body
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| Author | Tim Ferriss |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Health & Fitness, Weight Loss, Diet, Self-help |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Published | 2010 (Crown Publishing Group) |
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| Pages | 592 pp |
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| Preceded by | The 4-Hour Workweek |
| Followed by | The 4-Hour Chef |
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman (2010) is the second book by American writer Tim Ferriss.
Ferriss's first book, and the one that made him well-known, was The 4-Hour Workweek. Two facts informed his choice for his new book's topic: Firstly, he felt he did not want to write another book on business, as "I've said what I have to say about business. [...] I don't want to be 'The 4-Hour Workweek' guy; I'd prefer to be known for the way I approach the craft of writing and storytelling." Secondly, of the top ten Google searches bringing visitors to his weblog, four searches were some variation on "lose weight". That, as he put it, left him with "no Option B. [...] my next book was going to be The 4-Hour Body, or I wasn’t going to write another book."
The author spent three years interviewing over 200 experts, from doctors to athletes to black-market drug salesmen. He claims to have recorded every workout he had done since the age of 18, and from 2004 (three years before his first book was published) he had tracked a variety of blood chemistry measurements, including insulin levels, hemoglobin A1c, and free testosterone.
The 4-Hour Body was published on December 14, 2010.
Ferriss describes The 4-Hour Body as "unlike any diet or fitness book...It's more like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book for the human body, full of ridiculous stories, practical philosophies, and larger-than-life characters." The book covers over 50 topics, including rapid fat loss, increasing strength, boosting endurance and polyphasic sleep.
"The slow carb diet II" as detailed in the book can be summarized as the elimination of starches and anything sweet (including fruit and all artificial sweeteners) and a strong preference for lean protein, legumes and vegetables. Ferriss says that he drinks a glass of red wine daily, and has a weekly "cheat day" where he gorges on candy, fried foods, sweet drinks, and all the other forbidden foods so that the body does not go into starvation mode, as also recommended in the Body for Life diet. Although the weekly cheat day may cause a temporary weight gain due mainly to water weight, it actually results in greater weight loss over time.The 4-Hour Body recommends just 2 or 3 gym workouts per week.
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