The 4-Hour Body - Timothy Ferriss - Page 2

Diuqil

United States307 Posts

September 30 2010 01:30 GMT

#21

On September 30 2010 10:25 Mykill wrote:
sleep is essential
2 hours a day is not enough. you will be severely tired unless you take naps throughout the day.

Also gaining 34lbs of muscle with 4 hours of exercise requires chemicals if not steroids in telling the muscles they need to bulk. with normal conditioning and proper "nutrition" its impossible

LOL not even AAS will let you gain 34 lbs of muscle in 4 hours. One cycle of test will end up giving you about 30 lbs of muscle, 45 lbs at max, so this is complete bs.

DURRHURRDERP

Canada929 Posts

September 30 2010 01:31 GMT

#22

pretty much sums up my feelings on this guy. his previous bestselling book (4 hour workweek) makes the same kind of claims; in a nutshell that book suggests that outsourcing everything and applying the pareto principle = 4 hour workweek

i have a feeling this book will be much of the same (lots of claims, half truths, wishful thinking but not much substance)

at any rate it'll probably still sell a million copies since he knows how to sell himself

Mykill

Canada3402 Posts

September 30 2010 01:32 GMT

#23

On September 30 2010 10:27 Gatsbi wrote:
I don't know about any of the other stuff, but the 2 hours a day of sleep thing is 100% true. Look up polyphasic sleep, you sleep 20 minutes 6 times a day and get almost pure REM sleep. Rest is most likely BS though.

you'll have to be very good at sleeping. most people do not fall asleep right away... -_-"
also the amount of sleep needed is based on each person. 2 hours may be enough for him but not for others.
Honestly this guy is such a sham, he just exaggerates. its a very good technique to get people to buy his books though.

seppolevne

Canada1681 Posts

September 30 2010 01:33 GMT

#24

"Each individual nap should be long enough to provide at least 45 continuous minutes of sleep, although longer naps (2 hours) are better. In general, the shorter each individual nap is, the more frequent the naps should be (the objective remains to acquire a daily total of 8 hours of sleep)."

"Under extreme circumstances where sleep cannot be achieved continuously, research on napping shows that 10- to 20-minute naps at regular intervals during the day can help relieve some of the sleep deprivation and thus maintain minimum levels of performance for several days. However, researchers caution that levels of performance achieved using ultrashort sleep (short naps) to temporarily replace normal sleep are always well below that achieved when fully rested."

100% true indeed. I'm a Libra, what should my sleeping pattern be?