The exciting life of Andy Hawkes

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 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

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.

A number of people I know have been mentioning the four hour body in passing, so I decided to look in to it.

The idea of a set of diet and exercise "hacks" that could help transform my slightly over-padded frame into a leaner example of the genre appealed to me, and although I've not read it cover-to-cover yet I found the writing style interesting and the level of information provided is excellent.

I don't think that the dietary changes are going to be too troubling - I don't eat a lot of carbs / white processed foods anyway - but it will be very interesting to see how a simple dietary change might affect me.

I'm going to give it a go for the 30 days that the book says can yield a 9kg weight loss, but I really want to try it for 2 months to see how stable the changes are.

If anyone is interested I'll probably tweet about it a bit, and will share some updates here as and when I have anything interesting to say.