The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
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#2anyone want to give the short-short version of this. The transcript was way too long, and was all over the place, and I didn't have the patience for the video.
Re: The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
#3What I tried to capture in this interview is Tim's belief that you can get 80% results with 5% effort. And that the other 95% effort (or whatever the %) is either the facetime that we feel we must put in to feel we earned our result, or an attempt at perfection.
I'm not sure I agree with him completely, but my goal in the interviews is to learn, not to argue for "my side."
My other goal here was to find out how he identifies that 5% that gets outsized results. The salient part of his answer was that he find people who achieve freakish results, then he mimics their approach.
(If you read those last 2 sentences, you may not have to listen to my hour-long interview, which strengthen's Tim's 80%/5% message.)
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#4It should be noted that Ferriss wrote a 2008 article describing how to effectively put on 30 pounds overnight by dehydrating oneself before a weigh-in and then rehydrating before competition begins. [1] The fact that the miracle muscle gains mentioned in Tim's new book are also roughly 30 pounds should not go unmentioned.
[1] fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/01/18/how-to-cut-weight/
Re: The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
#5anyone want to give the short-short version of this. The transcript was way too long, and was all over the place, and I didn't have the patience for the video.
1. Measure what you eat.
2. Brief, intense, and regular workouts.
3. Repeat every day.
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#6What I tried to capture in this interview is Tim's belief that you can get 80% results with 5% effort. And that the other 95% effort (or whatever the %) is either the facetime that we feel we must put in to feel we earned our result, or an attempt at perfection. I'm not sure I agree with him completely, but my goal in the interviews is to learn, not to argue for "my side." My other goal here was to find out how he id…
as someone who took his advice a few years ago about weightlifting, i can tell you firsthand that what he said then was reasonably accurate. my efforts, by generally doing what he suggested, produced generally similar results.
Re: The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
#7What I tried to capture in this interview is Tim's belief that you can get 80% results with 5% effort. And that the other 95% effort (or whatever the %) is either the facetime that we feel we must put in to feel we earned our result, or an attempt at perfection. I'm not sure I agree with him completely, but my goal in the interviews is to learn, not to argue for "my side." My other goal here was to find out how he id…
I found that to be true with school. 5% effort usually gets you a B, while the closer you wanted to get to "perfection" (100%/A+), exponentially more effort is required.
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#8It should be noted that Ferriss wrote a 2008 article describing how to effectively put on 30 pounds overnight by dehydrating oneself before a weigh-in and then rehydrating before competition begins. [1] The fact that the miracle muscle gains mentioned in Tim's new book are also roughly 30 pounds should not go unmentioned. [1] fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/01/18/how-to-cut-weight/
Tim specifically addresses the 34 lbs of muscle gain in 28 days in the Mixergy interview. It's not the same routine of dehydration/rehydration for competition.
I think I see here 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days. How did you do that?
Timothy: So that was just so people know the circumstances. I was supervised by a Ph.D. at San Jose State University, and we used hydrostatic weighing, which is underwater weighing, for body composition. The way I did it was with two 30-minute workouts per week, which means it was literally four hours for the month. So in this case it is the 4-hour body. And there were a number of protocols that I followed.
The first was the exercise protocol, which was and we’ll talk about this I’m sure more, following the minimum effective dose. So how many seconds of tension with a specific weight or load do I need to trigger muscular growth in certain body parts? And you can figure this out. So I was using a very slow safe protocol to achieve that eliminating momentum to the extent possible, tracked everything like a scientific experiment.
And then the second protocol was the eating protocol. So you have to eat a lot to gain 34 pounds of muscle. I also lost three pounds of fat and lowered my cholesterol from 222 to 147. And that involved eating, but improving insulin sensitivity so that was preferentially put into muscle tissue as opposed to fat tissue. Then also taking supplementation to improve protein synthesis and things like that.
So at the end of the day it was a combination of very small things used together.
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#9What I tried to capture in this interview is Tim's belief that you can get 80% results with 5% effort. And that the other 95% effort (or whatever the %) is either the facetime that we feel we must put in to feel we earned our result, or an attempt at perfection. I'm not sure I agree with him completely, but my goal in the interviews is to learn, not to argue for "my side." My other goal here was to find out how he id…
as someone who took his advice a few years ago about weightlifting, i can tell you firsthand that what he said then was reasonably accurate. my efforts, by generally doing what he suggested, produced generally similar results.
Now what I need to do in my future interviews is get an understanding of the 5% of my guests' work that produces the big payoff.
It can't be the only thing I focus on, or else the interviews won't have depth and integrity.
But if I can pull that out, I can give my listeners a payoff for the hour they invest in my interviews.
Re: The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
#10anyone want to give the short-short version of this. The transcript was way too long, and was all over the place, and I didn't have the patience for the video.
1. Measure what you eat. 2. Brief, intense, and regular workouts. 3. Repeat every day.
Don't workout every day, only twice a week.