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Geek to Freak

I lost over 25 lbs in four months following the advice from Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Body.  Now, after a week of trying body weight resistance exercises and seeing no weight gain I decided to rethink things.  So I figured … Continue reading

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Phase 3: Week 1 Results

Phase 3 of my body recomposition is to gain muscle. The plan is to use just my body weight (because I have no equipment and not interested in the gym yet) and diet to put some meat on my bones. … Continue reading

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Body Recomposition – Phase 3

Today I weighed in at 160.2 lbs.  The starting point of Phase 3: Muscle Gain Phase 1 lasted from May 2nd to September 3rd, 2011.  It was a fat loss phase based on eating a slow carb diet outlined in … Continue reading

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Bod Pod body composition review

11% Eleven per-freakin’-cent!!! I needed to get that out of the way first.  I’ll come back to it in a minute. My appointment was made for 9:30am.  Upon booking, I was given a few guidelines.  No eat or drink 2 … Continue reading

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Four Hour Body – Week 11 Results

It’s been 11 weeks on the Slow Carb Diet outlined in Tim Ferriss’ New York Times bestseller The 4-Hour Body. I lost 0.4 lbs this week!  I weighed in at 158.8lbs. I’ve lost 19.2 lbs in 11 weeks since starting 4HB. … Continue reading

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Marathon

I’ve been thinking about setting a 2012 goal to run a marathon lately.  A marathoner at work just registered for the Calgary Marathon slated for late May of 2012.  In The 4-Hour Body, Tim Ferriss outlines how to hack a marathon in … Continue reading

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Carb-ageddon

Damage Control As part of my meal plan, I take 1 day a week to eat whatever I want, whatever I’m craving, whatever I miss.  I use saturdays.  On monday morning I weight myself again, on average I gain 2.54lbs … Continue reading

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Cheat Day Recap

I started the day with 175 non-consecutive push-ups (18+18+20+20+17+17+20+45) with 45 secs rest between sets. Then I had my usual morning protein shake (the only damage control I did all day). The wife and I jumped on the bikes and … Continue reading

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Week 9 Results

It’s been 9 weeks on the Slow Carb Diet outlined in Tim Ferriss’ New York Times bestseller The 4-Hour Body. I lost 1.8 lbs this week!  I weighed in at at even 160lbs. I’ve lost 18 lbs in 9 weeks since starting 4HB. … Continue reading

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Cheat Day / Anniversary Review

Another Cheat Day review.  I’ve been eating and drinking like this every Saturday for 12 weeks and still losing 1.8lbs per week average.  This is what makes it sustainable for me. In addition to Cheat Day, it was also my … Continue reading

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