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Karliath
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2214 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-30 01:29:30
September 30 2010 01:00 GMT
#1
THE 4-HOUR BODY - TIMOTHY FERRISS

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Want to sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
Want to increase fat-loss by 300% with just a few bags of ice?
Want to produce 15-minute female orgasms?


I've been waiting for this book for at least two years, and I'm actually surprised that the author, Tim Ferriss, is mentioned so rarely here on TL. I know that this almost sounds too good to be true, but this author is legit, and these are only 3 chapters out of more than 50 in his upcoming book, The 4-Hour Body. I urge you to check it out!

From the back cover:
THINNER, BIGGER, FASTER, STRONGER… which 150 pages will you read?

Is it possible to:
Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?
Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?

Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book.

The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question:

For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results?

Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women.

From the gym to the bedroom, it’s all here, and it all works.

YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each):

- How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.
- How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)
- How to increase fat-loss 300% using temperature manipulation
- 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
- How to produce 15-minute female orgasms
- How to triple testosterone, double sperm count, and (literally) have sex like a porn star
- How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks
- How to reverse permanent injuries
- How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months
- How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects.

You don’t need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue.

That’s exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.


Even better is that if you pre-order now, you will get a 46% discount AND receive a signed first-edition hardcover copy of the book! One signed manuscript of his previous book, The 4-Hour Workweek, sold on eBay for more than $2,000, so who knows? The 4-Hour Body will be available on Dec. 14, 2010.

The specific link is here:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-4-Hour-Body/Timothy-Ferriss/e/9780594036197/?itm=3&USRI=4-hour body

Mods!:
I know this sounds like advertising, but I am really just ecstatic and want to share this great book and limited deal with everyone else on TL. Tim Ferriss' blog has helped and entertained me so much over the past years. If anything is crossing the line, I'd truly appreciate it if you could just edit it out instead of closing the thread. Thanks!

I look forward to updating this thread with more news as the release date draws closer. Also, who pre-ordered the book?


THINK IT'S BS?

As I haven't read the book (obviously), I can't guarantee that this is "the real deal." The only thing I can base it off of is the author's record so far. His previous book, The 4-Hour Workweek, has been a #1 New York Times Bestseller, a #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, and a #1 BusinessWeek Bestseller. It has so far been published in 35 languages.

The author, Tim Ferriss, was nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007. Wired magazine has called Tim “The Superman of Silicon Valley” for his manipulation of the human body. He is a tango world record holder, former national kickboxing champion (Sanshou), guest lecturer at Princeton University, and faculty member at Singularity University, based at NASA Ames Research Center. When not acting as a human guinea pig, Tim enjoys speaking to organizations ranging from Nike to the Harvard School of Public Health.

According to him, this book is based on self-experimentation he started when he was eighteen, taking careful notes of things that worked and things that didn't. Over the past three years, he has been dealing with experts and researchers. He has also asked all kinds of people to test out his guides, because he wants them to be for everybody.

I visit his blog regularly, and the amazing things I see there convince me that this isn't a sham. For example, the "gain[ing] 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time" guide actually started out as a blog post, although he didn't give many details. Polyphasic sleep (I'm guessing that's what the "sleep hour and feel totally rested" guide is about) has also been discussed on his blog as well.

You decide if this is real or not. If you think that he can rise to such a status with scams, well then, he must be the best scammer in the world.
ZZangDreamjOy
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada959 Posts
September 30 2010 01:03 GMT
#2
Sounds like a complete load of shit, being honest. Do you have any proof that it's the real deal as you say?
HitEmUp
Pikachusc2
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada91 Posts
September 30 2010 01:03 GMT
#3
Sounds like i need to get that book
Losing is learning. winning is teaching
Fraud
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada108 Posts
September 30 2010 01:06 GMT
#4
I think the book also has a chapter on how to cure cancer as well.

Sounds like a sham, there's no way around hard work to build muscles and lose weight. Quick fixes don't work.
Misanthrope
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States924 Posts
September 30 2010 01:12 GMT
#5
Wow. =S
Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. - Benjamin Franklin
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
September 30 2010 01:13 GMT
#6
So this is like me posting a thread like "GUARANTEED PENIS ENLARGEMENT CHEAP" and at the end putting "mods please don't close I know this sounds bad but this is amazing, btw buy this its only 10 dollars and test for yourself!"
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UbOs
Profile Joined February 2009
United States28 Posts
September 30 2010 01:13 GMT
#7
This really does sound like bullshit, but I know the 2 of a sleep a night one is legit.

The reason why it's bullshit is because its ridiculously hard to change your sleep cycle into a 2 hour a day thing, it involves small increments of sleep throughout the day with the goal of getting REM sleep in each. The problem is that to get to that stage, you HAVE to sleep deprive yourself, there's no way around it.
http://www.dreamviews.com/f41/starting-dymaxion-sleep-schedule-78719/
some dude trying it.

So I imagine most of the "body hacks" are only used exclusively by Olympic athletes because it's so goddamn hard.
Dali.
Profile Joined June 2010
New Zealand689 Posts
September 30 2010 01:13 GMT
#8
Sounds to me like a satire of all the OTHER "quick fix" programs which flood the market. If you take it seriously, you're probably a patsy.
SweetNJoshSauce
Profile Joined July 2010
United States468 Posts
September 30 2010 01:13 GMT
#9
On September 30 2010 10:13 Shikyo wrote:
So this is like me posting a thread like "GUARANTEED PENIS ENLARGEMENT CHEAP" and at the end putting "mods please don't close I know this sounds bad but this is amazing, btw buy this its only 10 dollars and test for yourself!"


Seriously...
eLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1039 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-30 01:28:17
September 30 2010 01:14 GMT
#10
well, this could have some truth to it. for example, the 2 hour sleep thing must be polyphasic sleep. from what i've googled in the past, this is a real thing, where you train your body to take 20ish min naps at 6 intervals in a day. i'd give it a go, except there's so little research done on it and long term effects (i think it cuts out REM sleep, which isn't vital, but I believe contributes to creative thought). plus the obvious side effect of taking naps in the middle of your day and the social aspect of it.

so if this true, then there could be some truths in this book, but there's probably more to it than what the author tells you. be careful i guess.

EDIT: LOL ubos beat me to it

and now that i've read past the first line, this reminds me of the 'leaked' (read fake) 1.1 patch notes, where some insane things were mixed in with just enough real sounding things to make people wonder...
How's the weather down there?
gogogadgetflow
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2583 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-30 01:15:58
September 30 2010 01:14 GMT
#11
I forget that people still fall for this stuff.

On September 30 2010 10:13 Shikyo wrote:
So this is like me posting a thread like "GUARANTEED PENIS ENLARGEMENT CHEAP" and at the end putting "mods please don't close I know this sounds bad but this is amazing, btw buy this its only 10 dollars and test for yourself!"


QFT
Lefnui
Profile Joined November 2008
United States753 Posts
September 30 2010 01:14 GMT
#12
On September 30 2010 10:00 Karliath wrote:
Want to sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
Want to increase fat-loss by 300% with just a few bags of ice?
Want to produce 15-minute female orgasms?


What blatant bullshit.
Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
September 30 2010 01:17 GMT
#13
On September 30 2010 10:13 UbOs wrote:
This really does sound like bullshit, but I know the 2 of a sleep a night one is legit.

The reason why it's bullshit is because its ridiculously hard to change your sleep cycle into a 2 hour a day thing, it involves small increments of sleep throughout the day with the goal of getting REM sleep in each. The problem is that to get to that stage, you HAVE to sleep deprive yourself, there's no way around it.
http://www.dreamviews.com/f41/starting-dymaxion-sleep-schedule-78719/
some dude trying it.

So I imagine most of the "body hacks" are only used exclusively by Olympic athletes because it's so goddamn hard.

Oh I have experience with sleeping for only 2-3 hours a day. Well I'm not sure about how you're supposed to wake yourself up after not-sleeping for 24 hours and then trying to sleep for... however much you're trying to? After I sleep for 2-3 hours one day and the next day go to sleep, I apparently do even talk and answer people while asleep without remembering, don't wake up to any alarm clocks or anything. It feels like you'd need to somehow drug yourself etc, and... well yeah. I really don't think it's useful. What's true though is that if you want to function for just one day, sleeping for 2-3 hours is better than sleeping for like 6. However, after the day you really can't keep it up without something...
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Ranix
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States666 Posts
September 30 2010 01:18 GMT
#14
It's sad people still fall for scams Especially the obvious ones
Legends never gg
silencefc
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States875 Posts
September 30 2010 01:22 GMT
#15
On September 30 2010 10:00 Karliath wrote:- How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit


This is what caught my eye. Is this like fraud-ing or suing the hospital with a trick?

I don't get it.
Slice like a goddamn hammer.
Diuqil
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States307 Posts
September 30 2010 01:22 GMT
#16
Are you fucking serious? Honestly, I didn't believe this shit when I was in 4th grade. You can't gain muscle at more then a 2 lb rate per week, and that's with noob gains. You for sure can't lose more then 2 lbs of fat a week unless your 260+lbs of bodyfat, unless you're trying to starve yourself.
Sleep 2 hours aday and perform better then someone who slept for 8? ROFL.

This book is bullshit, just someone trying to get easy money from people who try to get the easy way out in life.
Karliath
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2214 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-30 01:25:49
September 30 2010 01:24 GMT
#17
On September 30 2010 10:03 ZZangDreamjOy wrote:
Sounds like a complete load of shit, being honest. Do you have any proof that it's the real deal as you say?


As I haven't read the book (obviously), I can't guarantee that this is "the real deal." The only thing I can base it off of is the author's record so far. His previous book, The 4-Hour Workweek, has been a #1 New York Times Bestseller, a #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, and a #1 BusinessWeek Bestseller. It has so far been published in 35 languages.

The author, Tim Ferriss, was nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007. Wired magazine has called Tim “The Superman of Silicon Valley” for his manipulation of the human body. He is a tango world record holder, former national kickboxing champion (Sanshou), guest lecturer at Princeton University, and faculty member at Singularity University, based at NASA Ames Research Center. When not acting as a human guinea pig, Tim enjoys speaking to organizations ranging from Nike to the Harvard School of Public Health.

According to him, this book is based on self-experimentation he started when he was eighteen, taking careful notes of things that worked and things that didn't. Over the past three years, he has been dealing with experts and researchers. He has also asked all kinds of people to test out his guides, because he wants them to be for everybody.

I visit his blog regularly, and the amazing things I see there convince me that this isn't a sham. For example, the "gain[ing] 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time" guide actually started out as a blog post, although he didn't give many details. Polyphasic sleep (I'm guessing that's what the "sleep hour and feel totally rested" guide is about) has also been discussed on his blog as well.

You decide if this is real or not.
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
September 30 2010 01:25 GMT
#18
On September 30 2010 10:22 Diuqil wrote:
Are you fucking serious? Honestly, I didn't believe this shit when I was in 4th grade. You can't gain muscle at more then a 2 lb rate per week, and that's with noob gains. You for sure can't lose more then 2 lbs of fat a week unless your 260+lbs of bodyfat, unless you're trying to starve yourself.
Sleep 2 hours aday and perform better then someone who slept for 8? ROFL.

This book is bullshit, just someone trying to get easy money from people who try to get the easy way out in life.


yeah alot of these allegations go in the face of tons of scientific research so id call bullshit without more proof and that might be hard as there is no way id waste my money on this
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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Mykill
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada3402 Posts
September 30 2010 01:25 GMT
#19
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

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Gatsbi
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1134 Posts
September 30 2010 01:27 GMT
#20
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.
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