The 4-Hour Body summary

If you want to lose weight, there are a bunch of diets out there to try. But one that has been proven to work is the slow-carb diet. By using it, within 30 days, the author managed to drop 9 kg without exercising once.

There are five rules to abide by in the slow-carb diet.

Meet Tracy Reifkind. For most of her life, she has been overweight, and at 41 years of age, she weighed 111 kg. Tracy dreamt of visiting Italy, but her obesity kept her from fulfilling that wish.

Then Tracy was introduced to the Russian kettlebell swing by her husband Mark Reifkind, a former powerlifting coach for the US national teams. The Russian kettlebell swing is the most effective way to lose fat rapidly and was created by Zar Horton, an ex-firefighter from the Albuquerque Fire Department.

According to sex researcher Shere Hite, more than two-thirds of American women fail to reach orgasm during intercourse. Furthermore, Alfred Kinsey, a sexologist, found that almost 50 percent of them couldn’t orgasm at all.

However, by changing the angle and pressure of sex positions, women have a better chance of experiencing orgasms.

Do you ever find yourself in bed trying to sleep when your brain just won’t switch off? You try counting sheep, switching positions, turning on the TV and other tactics, and before you know it, it’s four in the morning, and you’re still wide awake. If this sounds familiar, you – just like the author and many others around the world – might have insomnia.

To help you fall asleep, try taking a cold bath one hour before you go to bed.

Each year, more than 300 of the best college footballers undergo physical examinations that include a vertical jump and a 37-metre run in front of NFL coaches and talent scouts. An inch or a fifth of a second could be the difference between getting – or losing – an offer from a football team.

For this reason, many aspiring football players are hoping to be trained by Joe DeFranco, an expert who can increase an athlete’s vertical jump in only two days.

Allyson Felix, a 17-year-old student, broke her high school’s 200m sprint record, after which she started training with world-renowned coach Barry Ross. Following a year of training under Ross, in 2003, Felix broke the 200m world record.

One of Ross’ main training techniques is what’s known as Competition Conditioning, which stems from a study called “Energetics of High-Speed Running: Integrating Classical Theory and Contemporary Observations.”