I have been following Tim Ferriss Four Hour Body for 19 weeks now in my quest to turn from Geek to Freak. I started with the Slow Carb Diet in January and now I am doing The Last Mile Diet. Here’s how the Last Mile Diet is going. The Four Hour Body The Last Mile Diet for those who havent got that far yet, consists of a very restricted diet. It makes the Slow Carb Diet look like a banquet. The Last Mile Diet has just 5 options and you have to eat one of them every three hours. The portion sizes are based on your weight. For me that is 76kg. Option 1: 50 grams of whey protein isolate...

Chart showing Total Body Inches and Body Fat Percentage I have been following The Four Hour Body now for 17 weeks. I can’t believe it has been 17 weeks! Here are the results. What started off as a 28 day Four Hour Body plan is becoming a six to twelve month plan. I am building up to Occam’s Protocol and Geek To Freak (in that order) and currenlty doing The Last Mile. My journey from turning into a Freak (or at least a nicely toned dude) is still at the “lose body fat” stage. My progress has been slower than a lot of people, probably because:- a. I was starting...

The Four Hour Body is a book written by Tim Ferriss, of The Four Hour Work week fame. Tim is an expert in condensing down the things that actually make a difference to work, play or in this case getting a better body. Based on the Pareto 80/20 rule, Tim’s quest was to find the 20% of things that make 80% of the difference in losing weight and building a better posterior. Tim condensed the Pareto rule down even further to find the 2.5% of things which constitute the Minimum Effective Dose. It turns out that all of this can be accomplished in just 4 hours a month. Tim’s methods...

Who else is doing the Four Hour Body Kettlebell Swing? My 20kg kettlebell arrived this week. I kept hoping that my gym would order a set of kettlebells but they never did. What is your experience of kettlebells? It looks like kettlebells have been sweeping across the US for a decade or so, but over here in the UK, they are pretty rare. Having said that they are pretty easy to pick up on eBay or from Argos. I then found out that kettlebells are big with Russians but also with Scots. Apparently Scots used to train with small church bells.Maybe we wil be kaber tossing next. I followed Tim...

This weeks Four Hour Body Last Mile has been a drag. This mile is going on forever. However, the good news is that I have lost 1/2 inch from my hips and 1 1/2 inches from my chest. I am really pleased about this since my chest and waist are the ones where body fat is now sitting. There is very little body fat anywhere else. I have also GAINED two inches on my biceps, so I am really pleased about that. Last weke in the gym I re started my ARM program, so it is really good news to see some results. My arms were actually this size a few weeks ago, so they have probably bounced back with...

Yeh! The Four Hour Body Last Mile diet is definitely working as I have lost a whole inch from my waist in just five days. My Total body Inches are now 328.5 down from a starting TBI of 337.25 The Last Mile diet is really hard. It takes a lot more organisation and will power than anything I have done before. This week I have concentrated on doing everything perfectly. That is :- eating on time weighing my food to get the exact number of cooked grams drinking water religiously cycling for 20 minutes at less than 120bpm with each workout including more greens (like Spring Greens cooked in...