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The 4-Hour Body

Self-experimentation manual for fat loss, strength and sleep

Slow-carb diet, minimum effective dose training, cold exposure, sleep hacking: Tim Ferriss's grab-bag of body experiments, written as protocols you can run on yourself. It is uneven and unapologetically n-of-1, and it is where a lot of people first encountered self-quantification. Read it as a menu of experiments rather than as medicine.

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  • Tim FerrissRecommends

    Author · The Tim Ferriss Show

    Collects his own self-experiments on fat loss, strength, sleep and recovery, written as protocols to test rather than prescriptions.

    Source: tim.blog: books page
  • Hugh JackmanDiscusses

    Actor · Wolverine and The Greatest Showman

    He credits Tim Ferriss's book for two things. One is the cold baths he used through the Wolverine films. The other is a broader view of what actually works in a gym, formed over three years working in one, watching members train five days a week without changing.

    Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #444 transcript

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