4 HOUR BODY

I have received this large book only recently and have not gone through it fully. Most of what it says agrees with my opinion formed after about fifty years of regular and daily physical exercise. Mr. Tim Ferris has done a great job of debunking many of the present day ideas about fitness and diet. I have been practicing his prescription about sleep for several years now. A twenty minute after-lunch nap suffices for me to sleep about four and a half to five hours at night. I have added the balancing exercises to my routine. I have reduced the grains and cereals in my diet and added legumes, beans and green vegetables to it. I am feeling the difference, but yet to see it. It is great book, yet I have not formed the final opinion.

This book has really changed my attitude towards maintaining my body.I am 58 years old and this book has motivated me to take care of my body in a scientific way.Very very practical guide

The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss is an experimental guide to hacking fitness, diet, and performance. While much of the book focuses on rapid fat loss, muscle gain, and unconventional health experiments, its dietary approach leans heavily on the “Slow-Carb Diet,” which emphasizes protein-heavy meals—making it challenging for a vegetarian who eats only two meals a day. For a vegetarian woman following a two-meal-a-day routine, the book offers some useful insights on meal timing, metabolic efficiency, and lifestyle tweaks. However, many of its high-protein recommendations center around meat and eggs, requiring adaptations for plant-based eaters. It does provide valuable takeaways on minimalist workouts, cold exposure, and sleep optimization, but its effectiveness depends on how well one can modify its principles to fit a vegetarian lifestyle.

This is an amazing book by Tim Ferriss. I read this book after an injury in the back. It changed my life. I applied some of the stuff explained in the book and it worked great. My workouts got better and health improved. The chapter on weight loss is awesome. I definitely recommend this to people who are into a healthy lifestyle and fitness.

The book is undoubtedly the best books ever. So no point of feed-backing the book. I'd rather feedback Amazon here. I was expecting bookmarks with books but none was given. The book was also not covered, which gave the feel as if it is used.

Good book for self assistance

Awesome book a must read by my side in order to make a perfect body. Its for everyone

Take your time to read it. It can be an overdose of information if you read it in one god. Like the author suggests, read the parts you need to. But do read the whole thing to get a better understanding of how to maximise the most from everydaylife.

Loved loved loved this book!! Extremely interesting and full of helpful references. Added bonus, I lost weight too.

This book changed the way I think about fitness. I bought it from America the day it came out so I'd have it for Christmas last year and I'm glad I bought it. It didn't disappoint. Its got chapters on how to do everything from rapid fat loss (that I did and know worked on me personaly losing nearly two stone in two months, exercising like one or twice that whole time) increasing strength, testosterone, gaining mass, improving sex, increasing endurance whatever you need this book has it. Each chapter is worth the price of the book if you're looking to improve on that area. The great part of the book is well is when he talks about using psychology to train habits into yourself and up to date psychology on how thats done. Nothing about will power just systems and tracking what you do is very effective. If its photo food journals, waist, strength training etc tracking these things will make the habit of training and eating well stick. He even has a guy who used tracking to lose about 20/30 pounds in 8 months I think it was to lose weight despite still eating unhealthy foods and not exercising that much just to show how tracking is important. Tim Ferriss encourages you to become a self tracker and do your own research to and not to just trust him and that was important to because it made me do my own reading on fitness and inform myself more than I had in the past. So thats a great thing. I personally read the book all at once which the author doesn't recommended he says just pick your chapter after reading the introduction. But when re reading I pick my chapters. If your going to do any of the programmes in the book I'd recommend re reading the chapters cause you can miss one or two things because its so information dense. But overall if you're looking to improve you body you cant go wrong with this book. I'd buy it P.S. I've bought about 7/8 copies myself for people and a few others have bought them themselves thats how good it is. I've never done that with another book before so please do yourself a favour and buy this book

Awesome book! Rich in practical details. I read 1 chapter gave an overlook to every chapter and again Tim did a wonderful job Thank you for sharing your researches 🙏🏻

I had some friends over for a dinner for my fiance's birthday two days ago and one of my friends asked if my jeans were new. They weren't and, in fact, I had worn them several times around the same friend before. This time, however, the jeans actually fit and look great, like they're supposed to. See, I was an athlete my entire life. Starting in my childhood, and through high school I played three organized sports, or more, each year. In college I played basketball several times a week with roommates. I was tall and lean and could eat without guilt no matter what. Once I finished college, however, everything began to change. I landed a cushy desk job and moved away from my normal workout buddies, so I grew sedentary. Not being 100% sure on how to deal with my burgeoning waste-line, I delved into the popular P90X diet and workout regimen. Following the plan to the T, I transformed my body into something that I was truly proud of. Even when I was in the weight-room for over an hour a day and doing football drills for another hour a day in high school, I didn't look as good as a looked on the backside of the P90X routine. However, the whole think is a daunting task. Nearly 10 hours of workout time per week plus a very strict diet that requires a ton of time and energy just to count/portion/maintain. Luckily, I had a work schedule that lended itself to the lifestyle; but when I got a new job, P90X became impossible for me. Over the next couple years, I lost the incredible body that I had after P90X and somehow got to a point where I was embarrassed to not wear a shirt. My clothes didn't fit well anymore and I was unbuttoning the top one (or sometimes two) buttons on my pants when I sat down! I was lucky enough to happen upon this book and sat in on a Q&A with Ferris, in which he encouraged me to do what works for me whether that's P90X or his new book 4-Hour Body. He said the trick was finding something that I could maintain - something that wouldn't cause me to YoYo. I bought the book that day and began to read and understand what I needed to do to give his weight loss plan the ol' college try. First of all, Ferris tells you to choose the section that you are most interested in: fat loss, muscle gain, sex life, among others. He says to focus your attention on that one section for some time until you feel you are ready to move on. Clearly, I needed to focus on fat loss and I've been doing that for the past 6 weeks or so. The chapters are easy to understand and the fat loss one clearly and concisely dispells some of the common misconceptions associated with weight loss. As an engineer, I looked to his testing and science for my peace of mind. The weight loss section talks about several aspects of his weight loss plan: 1) diet 2) supplements 3) temperature conditioning 4) there may be others. I have really only implemented number 1) in my daily life, since they get progressively harder to make part of your routine as they go (2 is harder than 1, 3 is harder than 2, and so on). The diet is interesting, and most resembles a typical no-carb diet. These can be dangerous when done in long stretches (read: dangers of atkins), but there is a trick to this diet which I will get to in a few lines. The other sections of the weight loss chapter are designed to get you through the last 5 to 10 pounds of loss that can be very tricky and stubborn. The last section is about managing and minimizing damage done during times of binge eating (holidays, days of weakness, etc). Utilizing only the tips and suggestions and guidelines Ferris sets forth in the diet section of the weight loss part of the book, I am happy to say that I have lost just under 15 pounds, which is about 8% of my starting body weight. My face looks much more handsome since the bone structure is clearly visible. What's more is that my clothes fit me again! I don't feel disgusting anymore. I've dropped about 4 and a half inches off my waist and about 2 and a half off each thigh. What's more is this is all without stepping a foot in the gym. Now on to the best part, I'm on a diet right now. This diet. But last Saturday, I ate 4 donuts, half a bag of cheetos, a Mexican pork dish, Spanish rice, some corn tortillas, and about 6 beers. Today (also Saturday) I've eaten a German pancake, corned beef hash, 2 eggs, some country-style potatoes, a package of thin mint Girl Scout cookies, some oreos, and a couple spoons of ice cream. You see, every diet has its cheat days. You always break down and cheat. With Ferris' diet, you MUST cheat once per week. In fact, it's a mandate, and without it, your progress will stall. Right now, I am sitting in my living room, munching on cookies writing this review. I'm 15 pounds lighter, I wake up much easier in the mornings, I never feel bloated or fat or gross, I have more energy throughout the day, and I'm WEARING A BELT on pants that I bought when I was 21!! Do yourself a favor and buy this book. Read it, learn it, and follow it. If it doesn't work for you, then it doesn't work for you. It's not miraculous, and it requires commitment, but it IS easy and maintainable. You can change the way you feel with this as your primary tool. You can change the way you look, the way you see yourself, and most of all you can change your life.

Tim Ferriss prévient le lecteur dans la préface : ce livre doit être utilisé comme un buffet ; les quelques premiers chapitres sont incontournables et les autres sont à lire (ou non) en fonction des envies. Et pourtant, j'ai lu ce livre comme un roman, chapitre après chapitre ! Bien sur, tous les chapitres ne me concernent / ne m'intéressent pas mais la curiosité et le dynamisme avec lequel l'auteur aborde ses sujets donnent envie de tout lire. J'ai trouvé dans ce livres des explications et des conseils qu'on peut facilement appliquer. J'ai notamment adapté mon alimentation (plus de proteines) et commencé l'exposition au froid (douches froides) et je ressens un regain d'énergie. Il convient évidemment de prendre ce livre pour ce qu'il est : le compte rendu d'auto-expériences personnelles (et non un traité scientifique). C'est dans cette perspective que le livre peut être vu comme un buffet ; on retient de la lecture de ces 600+ pages des préceptes que l'on peut expérimenter sur soi, souvent avec succès. Quelques soient vos objectifs, Tim Ferris à des propositions fascinantes à vous faire.