Welcome to the One-Man Science blog, fellow body hacker! Over the next couple of months, and maybe even years, these pages will get filled with detailed accounts of dozens of body-hacking experiments. This blog will serve as a journal of my attempts to get the perfect body.
The plan is simple – about every week I will start a short 5-day experiment during which I will track exactly what I eat, how I exercise, as well as some interesting body measurements, including my body weight, body fat percentage and lean body mass. Each experiment will have a clear hypothesis that will be either confirmed or rejected by the end of 5 days. The remaining 2 days of the week, probably the weekend, will be used as a “flush-out” period during which I will aim to reset whatever metabolic changes I’ve induced in my body prior to starting the next experiment.
If the trend of body measurements by the end of an experiment turns out to be favorable, that is I either lost fat or gained muscle, then the conditions of that experiment will serve as a baseline for the next experiment. If, on the other hand, the measurements did not improve, then conditions from the last experiment that did produce favorable measurements will be used as the baseline. In addition to containing the baseline conditions, the next experiment will also incorporate a small incremental change together with an updated hypothesis. Basically, the control group of every experiment is the experiment on which it is based.
This way of incrementally modifying, one variable at a time, the training routine and/or the diet while carrying over only the parts that produce favorable results will hopefully lead to that perfect body. At the end of this process, you should be able to just take the set of final recommendations without having to perform this long scientific mumbo-jumbo yourself 🙂