Re:The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
by alexyim on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:20PM
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> You can synthesize more than 2lbs of muscle per month, if the muscle you're synthesizing has been in a trained state previously.
Do you have a link to that by any chance?
It does make sense though. Perhaps that's what happened with him, but without that key bit of info it's fairly misleading.
Re:The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
by Bostwick on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:40PM
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Start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Experiment.
Then read http://blog.legendarylife.com/the-colorado-experiment.
Anecdotally, here's one guy's attempt at repeating the Colorado experiment. http://www.placeintheground.com/2008/07/21/testing-out-the-c... http://www.placeintheground.com/2008/09/25/colorado-experime...
Re-reading this makes me think that Tim Ferriss is probably advocating the Colorado Experiment's methods in his book. One of the other comments mentioned five-seconds-up, five-seconds-down.
Re:The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
by alexyim on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @03:48PM
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I see. The experiment seems ill-conceived in the first place, along with the guy's attempt to repeat it.
Re:The 4-Hour Body: (Quickly) Hacking The Human Body
by Bystander on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @09:26AM
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You can do more than that per month, even if you've never participated in sports in your life - see my comment above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008164
This is how athletes can return from injury in a few weeks. It's also how most before/after shots for health products and supplements are made.
I've done GOMAD (Gallon of Milk A Day). It's tough to drink that much milk. In the end, I gained ten pounds of muscle over a period of two months.