The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
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In biological systems, exceeding your MED can freeze progress for weeks, even months.
In the context of body redesign, there are two fundamental MEDs to keep in mind:
To remove stored fat do the least necessary to trigger a fat-loss cascade of specific
hormones.
To add muscle in small or large quantities do the least necessary to trigger local (specific
muscles) and systemic (hormonal2) growth mechanisms.
Knocking over the dominos that trigger both of these events takes surprisingly little. Don't
complicate them.
For a given muscle group like the shoulders, activating the local growth mechanism might
require just 80 seconds of tension using 50 pounds once every seven days, for example. That
stimulus, just like the 212°F for boiling water, is enough to trigger certain prostaglandins,
transcription factors, and all manner of complicated biological reactions. What are