When I picked the book up, I was very sceptical about the content. There are quick fix diets and all kinds of other waste products on the market to push to do something and lose 100 pounds. This book is clearly not one. I have great respect for the way in which Tim believes. He is probably best on "Smart Working". The original thought of the book, was this guy's probably lazy-far from it. What Tim strives for in this book and his other excellent book, the 4-hour work week, is to pack measures and knowledge in a small amount of time in order to maximize results. Depending on your health goals, this book is a must read.
What makes it so good is Tim himself is people's will. He recommends not something he is not trying to. You ' gotta ' respect, specially when you see what he attempts. You must read this book.
Why is this important to me?
I thought about this because when I heard about this book, I really did not give it a second thought. I have read the 4-hour work week and then had to read this book because it was so good. This book is important to you because Tim cuts through the crap and all of the misconceptions out there and give concrete results to fat loss, muscle gain, strength training and nutrition. The best is interviews with Nina Hartley. Because I have to keep this one G top rated, will I allow you to read it and see what I mean.
1. the 80/20 rule-most of you don't know me but I am kind of numbers nerd. Pareto was an Italian mathematician and this is his rule. Basically it is translated to 80 percent of the results come from 20% of the work. If you combine is has more efficient than the 80/20 rule composite effects. A weakness here is that you can be very effective in-effective work so you have to evaluate what is in effective and stop making it. There is no better than to Tim Ferriss then.
2. Parkinson's law-this is outstanding because I have not heard it before reading Tims books. Basically it says that a task will swell in "Perceived" difficulties which lengthens. In short, you can get an essay that is done on a night or every term. The difficulty of the project seems to be only harder by name-i.e. semester. To apply this law effectively focus on god and not perfection. You can therefore get 95% efficiency of say 1 month receive 100% efficiency in 5 years. That is where this law has real value.
4-hour body is packed with 600 pages of great material. Since I do not want to make a 10-hour video that nobody is going to look at, I profile three central concepts on fat loss in the book.
1. subtracting the fat-I chose a based on sheer popularity. With the growing obesity issues in this country, I thought I would let us start with the most popular. Contrary to what many believe, do not cut the fat that you lose weight. Tim profiles his "Slow Carb Diet" that works. You can melt the fat away by eating protein and vegetables on the way in which he summarizes the. Tim Ferris fashion, he takes it to the extreme and profiles of other ways to ignite fat burning. The hormonal responses to carbs, protein and fat are different. Here at the real key is three things:
1.1,000 calories of 90% fat = weight loss of 9lbs per day.
2.1,000 calories of 90% protein = weight loss of 6lbs per day.
3.1,000 calories of 90% carbohydrates = weight gain of. 24 kg per day.
Thus different sources of calories equal different results. Note: He does not serve to promote "no carbs". This is a bad idea as the Atkins Diet shows old. When people cut out all carbs, they lose weight, but when they go back, they tend to put more on.
2. Consistent follow-up-it is really simple but very effective. People suck create new favourable habits. That is why each diet fad is always a best seller because most people are not going to stick with one thing. To get around this, you will need people to see measurable results quickly. The only way to do this is to monitor the follow-up process and. start cutting myself some slack and shows measurable gains that are long lasting.
3. thermal load-I have never seen this concept but to put the numbers for it makes sense. If you run a marathon burn approximately 2 600 calories. A marathon run approximately 4 hours. Remember Michael Phelps? When training for the Olympic Games, he at 12,000 calories per day. This means that he would have to work 16 hours or equivalent 4 marathons every day. How will he not balloon and gain weight? The idea here is the thermal load. Running a marathon gives you a burn injury of 2600 calories while working in an 82 degree pool the same 4 hours will burn an EXTRA 4000 calories. I suppose we just thrown up pool membership dollars ... ...
I realize that this summary does not scratch the surface on how good this book is but of the time, I don't need to keep it short. Some other major topics covered in the book if you are interested in are:
1. to gain muscle mass and body fat, loosing.
2. Increased strength by working out less.
3. six minute abs
4. How will get 34 pounds in 28 days without steroids
5. reversing lamps permanent damage
I hope you find this brief video summary useful. The key to any new idea is to work in your daily routine until it becomes habit. Habits form in as little as 21 days.
One thing that you can remove from this book has a minimalist approach. One thing that shines throughout the book is a minimal amount of exercise needed for exceptional results. This is complicated and goes against. This does not mean that the exercises are simple. What is the difference. Most of the strength and size of the work requires a negative and lack of education. I've used several of these methods in the past and can say it works. Depending on your goals, you can choose what to work on.