Tim Ferriss skyrocketed to stardom with his first book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich back in 2007. From there he has become respected for his podcast interviews and his work and funding with psychedelics through Johns Hopkins. He rode the “4-Hour” wave with The 4-Hour Chef and another called 4-Hour Body An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman.
The 4-Hour Body is a 500+ page book that combines his personal experience with interviews and experiences with the best in the fields of topics including muscle gain, sleep, injury prevention, sex, nutrition, and longevity. The book is loaded with pictures, graphs, and diagrams that help illustrate a variety of techniques (exercises, stretches, etc.) and the results of his anecdotal experiments.
A lot of what I read back then was fringe science but it has stood up to the critics and much of it is now well-recognized and practiced (although I don’t hear anyone talking about 15-minute female orgasms). I covered each chapter in notes and highlights worth reading but I’ve compressed that down to 3 things I learned from reading this book that still has an impact on me.
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- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
- The 4-Hour Chef
- 4-Hour Body An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman.
- Tim Ferriss created The Slow-Carb Diet which has 5 rules including avoiding white carbs (except for cauliflower) and limiting fruit to once a week. He explains:
- He doesn’t give an explicit minimum effective dose for everything, so I dove into the MED of strength training and found out exactly how much it is based on the research.
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