The 4-Hour Body

An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

Timothy Ferriss | 4.03 | 33,241 ratings and reviews

Recommended by Jon Favreau, Caterina Fake, Bryan Callen, and 6 others. See all reviews

Ranked #5 in Exercise, Ranked #6 in Fitness — see more rankings.

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% with a few bags of ice
* 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 and double sperm count
* 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. less

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Reviews and Recommendations

We've comprehensively compiled reviews of The 4-Hour Body from the world's leading experts.

Jon Favreau I’ve given [this book] to people. (Source)

Caterina Fake Recommends this book

Bryan Callen I probably have recommended The Art of Learning and The 4-Hour Body, I'm not kidding, more than any other books. (Source)

Marin Gerov Talking of Tim Ferriss, his series (The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef) have been extremely good resources for improving work, health, and learning. (Source)

Dr. Monali Y. Desai I get most of my information about nutrition from medical studies. I haven’t read any books about nutrition that I agree with 100%. These are a few nutrition related books that I’ve read recently that I thought were interesting: Eat to Live (Joel Fuhrman), Why We Get Fat (Gary Taubes), and The 4-Hour Body (Tim Ferriss). (Source)

Mark Hart Absolutely blew me away. (Source)

Rankings by Category

The 4-Hour Body is ranked in the following categories:

#9 in Bodybuilding
#17 in Crossfit
#11 in Diet
#80 in Diy
#18 in Health
#95 in How To
#78 in Lifestyle
#39 in Nutrition
#93 in Sex
#7 in Sports Nutrition
#15 in Strength Training
#11 in Stretching
#11 in Weight Loss
#10 in Weightlifting
#71 in Wellness

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