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I'd suggest doing some basic ab exercises. The ones I use are from Timothy Ferriss's "The 4-Hour Body". It's not surprisingly male-centric, but the tips are great. Everything I tried worked! There's some great diet advice, too.

The chapter "Six-Minute Abs" is literally 6 pages long, there are only 5 exercises listed, And they will take you literally 6 minutes.

The "Cat Vomit" exercise works the transverse abdominis, the "corset" muscles. I literally went from a 33-inch waist to a 30-inch waist in 2 weeks with the Six-Minute Abs. And the hip flexors really helped me develop an hourglass waist.

I went from feeling bloated, as thin as I was to begin with, to feeling trim and strong within a couple weeks. Now my posture is better. Tighter abs and lower back muscles will help you in your other fitness goals, too.

Just start slow. I thought, "This is too easy!" then I was sore for 3 days after my first day. When you start slow, you can give yourself a day or two to rest, then get back to it, and try for one or 2 reps more.

Absolutely not-- In fact, you're expected to binge on your cheat day-- Another part of the psychology is to eat so much you don't want to eat any more crap for a while! I just weigh myself on the morning of my cheat day and no other time, then I get a general trend line (which is going down).

Four-Hour Body on Amazon, but I'm sure you can find it at your library!

Explaining in detail is beyond the scope of a reddit response. You should read the book. It's availible for $2 on amazon

You will see results for sure. After a while to continue seeing results you will need to increase the difficulty or type of push up. I highly suggest the 4 hour body is a book where this guy talks about minimum effort maximum return techniques. He does more than fitness and weight loss to talks about sex and other cool things. A super quick synapse is the avg person can gain ten pounds of muscle and lose ten pounds of fat with a diet switch, high intensity, full body, and short duration work outs to near failure is by far the most effective exercise routine, his gains are significant compared to isolated workout.

Idk how to put it well but ill try. If you follow what he says through diet and exercise what normally takes 2 hours a day of work out you will see 90% of the same gains. So 10 hours less exercise for 10% less in gains.

I live my life loosely following this and have had a six pack for the last 6 years working out less than 2hours a week.

I'm not an expert on fitness, but most of what I read speaks to less is more. My personal experience has born this out as well. In my younger days I was chronically over-trained and sometimes injured. Beyond a certain point training more will hurt your gains not help them.

If you're strictly trying to bulk, check out The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss, in particular the chapter "From Geek to Freak." I was able to put on 10 pounds of muscle maintaining around 10-12% bf on the protocol in 6 weeks, only going to the gym once a week. No joke. The author achieved 3x that in 4 weeks lifting 2x/wk. The protocol is scientifically based and hyper effective.

If you want to lose fat fast, read this book. It's extreme, but it works. I went from ~12% Body fat to ~8% in about 3 weeks.

http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Body-Uncommon-Incredible-Superhuman/dp/030746363X

It also gives invaluable other tips, as well. Definitely worth the price.

I would recommend The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss. While this may not touch on everything that you mentioned, it's quite the interesting read and he explains a lot of the technical sides of how your muscles and proteins work. I have it and have found it quite interesting, though I have not yet read it entirely.

Check out The 4-Hour Body. It's not the magic bullet that it purports to be, but there are some very good and clear steps about what you should and should not do. Just follow it to a tee and you'll get results.

Good for you! The great thing about this is that you'll make a lot of progress very quickly, it'll hurt of course, but it'll be quick as well.

I hope part of your plan involves lifting weights. I recommend kettlebell excercises such as the ones listed in the 4-hour body

For many years, I thought that this was a pretty foolish way to treat anything. After reading the 4 Hour Body, I thought to myself, this guy has done all of this experimentation on himself, why not give it a try.

Basically I cut out carbs and casein. I also limited my refined sugar intake. The effect was pretty astounding. I showed a huge improvement in concentration.

The flip side is that it is harder than hell to keep up. I am sure that I would have been unhappy as hell if that diet was forces on me as a child. I still love pizza. That kind of tends to reduce the efficacy of the diet.

There's a whole chapter on female orgaasm in this book.

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Haven't had an opportunity to test the techniques out yet, but it looks pretty legit.

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To have fun while learning, try The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. I also like Prescription for Nutritional Healing for a reference.

I prefer to see studies backing claims. Maybe not everything below is relevant, but here are some places I like to read online, too: Examine.com, Stronger By Science (mostly strength training studies), Strength Sensei (Charles Poliquin is an Olympic strength coach and knowledgable in nutrition), Suppversity, ss.fitness

Yes, I put on 30 Kilos after becoming software programmer in 20 years period. The biggest change came in after 2008 after which I gained 20 Kilos. Problem is that our weight creeps on us slowly and stealthily.

I started eating a lot of carbs and sugar because those were the kind of food served freely by software companies I worked at. Pizzas Parties were regular and Coke was always flowing.

In 2010 the company I joined added Candies to my diet. Finally, I reached 95 Kilos and was horrified. It was my tipping point and I decided to do something about it.

In 2014 I got sane. I stopped eating everything that my company gave me free. I would pack lunch & snacks from home. Avoided all Pizzas, Coke, and Candies to the extent of zero tolerance to those foods.

Walked 10000 steps every day for exercise.

In two months between July-2014 & Aug-2014 lost 10 Kilos. Since then has remained sane and stopped binging on food.

Two books helped me immensely during this phase The 4 Hour Body and The Sugar Smart Diet.

The first book helped me in understanding weight loss and exercise. The second book helped in getting ready recipes for success.

Talk to your doctor about Modafinil/Provigil and look into uberman. The book The Four Hour Body has a chapter about it as well.

Tim Ferriss created a diet that's essentially atkins but with a few tweaks and a glorious cheat day once a week, you can get the book here: http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Body-Incredible-Superhuman/dp/030746363X/ref=pd_sim_b_1

First off, I would highly recommend the Tim Ferris book "Four Hour Body"

http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Body-Incredible-Superhuman/dp/030746363X/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1346184779&sr=8-1

It's huge and worth every penny. His take on the Paleo lifestyle is a "slow-carb diet" kind of modification. It is not strict Paleo, but he gives you guidelines in the book. His recommendation is for a splurge day once a week. I did this last year and shed about 30 lbs. A friend of mine did it and lost about 100 lbs! Secondly, fasting is a good thing done intermittently. Fasting for up to 48 hours has been shown to increase the natural release of HGH.

http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/50/1/96.full

Also as a healthcare professional (Paramedic) and a medical student, I would advise against the use of Albuterol for your purposes. (That is unless you have asthma. Even then only using it PRN (as needed))

In short, you are on the right path. You just need to make a few tweaks here and there and I think you're set.

My diet, however, is for the exact opposite purpose. I have always had a bear-like frame and have had no trouble with lean gains. It's those pesky "non-lean" gains that have always plagued me so I'm constantly cutting.

dude, do yourself a favor and obtain this book... you can thank me later

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Hi there!

This comment's going to get fucking buried, and you'll probably never see it, but I've gotta fucking try anyway.

You've just had a "Harajuku" moment: You're fat, and you'll stay that way unless you do things differently.

So, you need two things.

First, you need real data about yourself.

Second, you need some system in place that can give you immediate results that are compelling enough to keep you committed, which is easy to implement, and which doesn't rely on willpower. Because fuck willpower.

So, the first thing you need to do is take measurements. get a tape measure and measure various parts of your body: I started with biceps, chest, belly, hips (at the widest place) and thighs. Take these measurements every day, because they'll make the bad days better and the good days excellent, no matter how scary it seems at first.

Tracking weight is better than nothing, but be aware that muscle weighs more than fat, so if you go the exercise route, you'll see weight gain when you're actually losing fat and gaining muscle. So I use a tape measure for preference.

Second, you need to keep track of your eating in as lazy of a way as possible: I recommend using your phone to take a picture of every meal before you eat it. Put your hand on the table next to your plate so you have some idea of the scale.

I recommend getting this book, because it covers every aspect of whatever your goals might be- sex, steroids, bodybuilding, fat loss, biochem diet hacking, and a lot more. Like I said- fast results that are compelling and will help you stay on track. I've got over 100 lbs to lose and this has got me well on the way.

Steal this book if you have to. Pirate it- it's available online- if you have no option. Pay the author back later if you have the opportunity. But get it, because my data shows better results from this than anything else I've seen or tried, with less effort, and no willpower.

If your are serious and in a hurry I'd get a program like P90X, insanity, something hardcore and add in an hour of some sort of cardio on the non-cardio days of the program. Or, if you have the $, hire a trainer.

If not in a hurry grab 4 hrs body by Tim Ferris, he's got all sorts of tips & tricks for quick gains but you still got to put in the work.

Remember, the numbers, like what u/Laugh_Tracks posted are minimums. You want to add 10 reps, subtract 2 minutes, etc. so on actual test day you can have a bad day and still know you got it.

Edit to add book link:http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Body-Incredible-Superhuman/dp/030746363X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369368943&sr=8-1&keywords=4+hour+body+timothy+ferriss

The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss can provide some direction.

May I present to you The Four Hour Body. Works wonders.

Buy the 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferriss and follow it. PM me in a year to tell me how much weight you lost. :)

Didn’t say he was; don’t even like the man. But clearly, he effectively processes and utilizes what experts believe—you know, how he’s rich because of his multi-billion-dollar technology company...

You wouldn’t be the first PhD to have his head so far up his hard-earned mountain of memorized information regurgitated by contemporary academic consensus—that you fail to connect the most-relevant dots within your own field and produce anything meaningful for society. “Parking lot science” as Mr. Ferris’s well-accredited, scientific associates call it (near the front of the book).

Think for yourself. Don’t be paralyzed at the thought of challenging dogmatically asserted scientific theory because it would risk your career as an accomplished scientist.

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