Dellanave

Tim Ferriss is a pretty well known fraud.  Other people have written about how his reality is far from what he preached in 4HWW.  It’s also well-known that many of his accomplishments are dubious at best.  Maybe the most glaring example is his Chinese kickboxing championship in which he exploited a loophole in the rules to significantly out-weigh his opponents and then simply SHOVE them out of the ring.

Now this charlatan has written a book on how to “become superhuman”.  I won’t even link it because as far as I’m concerned I’m already giving him more attention than he deserves.  In any case, in this book about half of it is devoted to developing super-human levels of strength.  To that end, he posted a video with his new year’s resolutions for 2010.  In it, he says that one of his resolutions is to attain a 500lb deadlift.  Here is a clip I cut from the video.

Now a 500lb deadlift is far from superhuman strength but it is definitely a formidable level of strength and a worthy goal.  Tim states that he had previously pulled 475 for a triple on a trap bar, so by my estimation his barbell deadlift 1RM would have been somewhere between 425 and 450.  In other words, far less than a year away from a 500lb 1RM.

Here we are a year later…..and there is no evidence that I have seen that he has accomplished this goal.  I’ve combed through his twitter as well as his blog.

But he released a book on attaining super-human strength?

But he can’t reach his goal of a far-less-than-superhuman 500lb deadlift?

What does this say about the rest of the content of the book?

And before you think I am full of shit and jealous of his success as an author, here is a 520lb deadlift from July by yours truly.  I have since taken that to 550, and have pulled 500 for a triple.   Does that make me any more qualified to tell you how to run your body?  No.

Do you want to listen to a guy who can’t even reach his own goals, but writes a book about how you’re supposed to?

P.S.  If Tim wants to provide evidence to the contrary, I’m all ears.  It will just serve to remove ONE reason he is a fraud and a charlatan.

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