The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
He expects me to believe
that he dropped 4% in bodyfat as a result of eating 7000 calories? ..."
I took a big swig of Malbec and read the blog comment again. Ah, the Internet. How far we
haven't come.
It was amusing, and one of hundreds of similar comments on this particular blog post, but the
fact remained: I had gained 34 pounds of muscle, lost 4 pounds of fat, and decreased my total
cholesterol from 222 to 147, all in 28 days, without anabolics or statins like Lipitor.
The entire experiment had been recorded by Dr. Peggy Plato, director of the Sport and Fitness
Evaluation Program at San Jose State University, who used hydrostatic weighing tanks, medical
scales, and a tape measure to track everything from waist circumference to bodyfat percentage.
My total time in the gym over four weeks?
Four hours.3 Eight 30-minute workouts.
The data didn't lie.
But isn't weight loss or gain as simple as calories in and calories out?