Interestingly, this article and these comments mirror much of what's in "The 4 Hour Body" by Tim Ferris. Very interesting read (he goes so far as to have an insulin probe implanted to measure real-time glycemic index).

Haha - thanks for the edit. Also, I think you're trying to refer to Tim Ferriss -- but his book is called "The 4 Hour Body". Definitely sounds a bit less taxing than 100 hrs. =)

The writer of the article was indeed very funny, but honestly anyone can be made to look like a buffoon if their words are taken out of context, and the results aren't examined.

Personally, I'd recommend to anyone interested in health and fitness at all to grab the 4 Hour Body - there's some stuff worth reading.

This reminds me slightly of Tim Ferris' "The 4 Hour Body". Has anyone had any real experience with his suggested diets? I find eating consistent and similar meals is cheaper and healthier.

After making it only part way through Tim Ferriss' new book The 4 Hour Body I am already thinking that I'm going to have to soon start going the "I, API" route. Basically: measure everything.

I bought a Garmin GPS watch a while back just to see what it looked like to walk around for a day. What if I could combine that data with, say, Fitbit (http://www.fitbit.com/) and Zeo (http://www.myzeo.com/)?

I think we're on the cusp of a revolution of new technology that will let us cheaply measure and collect data on all kinds of things in our lives. Just think about what kind of effect visualization of data like this could have on your life!

The fitness imperative is almost implicit in this kind of self-analysis.

Tim Ferris's second book, the 4 Hour Body is a decent starting place for beginners who want to lose weight, increase muscle mass, get stronger and a bunch of other performance/fitness related topics. There's a chapter called 'The Harajuku Moment' where he outlines the steps that he used to help Rails-nerd Chad Fowler lose 70+ pounds of weight and increase his strength. I'd highly recommend Tim's book (The 4 Hour Body) to anyone who's interested in "hacking your body".

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/07/28/the-big-ques...

Another book/person I'd recommend HIGHLY is Kelly Starrett. He recently did a 2 day seminar on Creative Live about resolving pain, preventing injury and optimizing athletic performance. He's also coming out with a book at the end of April called "Becoming a Supple Leopard". You can check out a 50 page preview of the book below:

http://www.allthingsgym.com/50-page-sample-of-kelly-starrett...

Off the top of my head no, most of my insight came from observing addiction in others, and experimenting over the course of a decade. However, the two books which I guess started me on this journey are Why We Get Fat by Garry Taube [0] and The 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferris [1]. Both of these books take a scientific approach to diet (which is governed by habit and addiction, after all).

I will say this, I am convinced that for a lot of addictions, all you can do is substitute one addiction for another. But if the new addiction is something healthy, then I think that is fine. But if you do become a diet addict, keep it scientific, don't follow every blogspam diet fad.

For social-media, I substituted a typing instructor game. So when ever I felt the urge to go doomscrolling or something, I would fire up a typing game instead. I keep a windows VM on hand just to play TypingMaster. It takes 3-5 minutes to complete one of the training sessions (which is probably less than you would have wasted on twitter). This helps kill the urge, and break the cycle. Plus it makes me a better typist. And when you can do 90wpm on QWERTY, switch to DVORAK.

If you have a common chemical addiction like smoking, coffee, pain killers, alchohol then the only safe approach is the taper/step down. Measure how much you take now and then commit to reducing that amount by about 10% per week. So you smoke 18 a day instead of 20 in your first week. That's not so hard, right? Whatever you do, NEVER try cold turkey quitting any chemical, at least not before seeing a doctor. Chemical withdrawals range from terrible headaches for coffee, to deadly DTs from alcohol.

[0] http://garytaubes.com/works/books/why-we-get-fat

[1] https://fourhourbody.com

"I don’t know anything about Tim Ferris’s exercise regime. He came through our Sport and Fitness Evaluation Program for some testing a number of years ago. He did not provide any information about his purpose. In fact, I only found out that he put my name on his website after receiving an inquiry from someone who had seen the website and asked if I could confirm his results. I cannot — he signed a consent form that states that individual results will not be disclosed. Although he contacted me about being retested, I am not willing to do that because he is apparently using my name and San Jose State University for his commercial purposes, without asking for permission or notifying me of this."

The above quotation is allegedly from the doctor that Ferriss sites at the beginning of The 4 Hour Body. I have not verified that the quotation is legitimate, but I found it within this review of the book: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=337...

I found the review when I was researching some of the claims he makes within the book, claims which, to me, seemed to be obviously fraudulent. Assuming it's true, I have a hard time understanding why anyone should seek him out for advice on any matter.