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Trade Liberalization, Technological Change and the Wage Gap. the Cases of Chile and Mexico*
Flórez, Victoria E., Hallberg, Anna, Ibero-americana
The implications of trade liberalization for income distribution are one of the most important aspects of the current economic debate in Latin America. On the one hand, the countries in the region have increasingly opened their markets to world imports during the 1990s. This at a time when negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), including the USA, Canada and all Latin American and Caribbean countries (with the exception of Cuba), are gaining momentum. On the other hand, as a recent study argues income inequality remains "one of the greatest socioeconomic ills" the Latin American region faces today (IDB 1999). Most surprisingly, however, in the negotiations of the FTAA little concern has been placed on income inequality. This can perhaps be blamed on the theory. Certainly, the theory predicts that trade liberalization is more likely to increase income inequality in developed countries than in developing countries. It is argued that since the latter are relatively more abundant in less-skilled labor and they are assumed to use trade barriers to protect home-based production of skill-intensive goods, the removal of these barriers would make the relative prices of these goods decrease. In response to this, less-skill-intensive industries would expand with the result that the demand for less-skilled workers would increase. As a consequence, the wages of the latter would increase relative to the wages of more skilled workers. This ultimately would lead to the reduction of income inequality, since labor income is the major source of household income. In this paper, we analyze these issues in the cases of Mexico and Chile.
Most of the studies on the links between trade liberalization and changes in relative wages rely on the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) model and the Stolper-Samuelson (S-S) theorem. The present article is not an exception. However, trade is not the only source of shifts in relative wages. As it is argued in the literature, skill-biased technological change is likely to increase the wage gap in both developed and developing countries. Accordingly, theories that focus on the effects of technological change on labor demand will also be considered and their relative importance for the explanation of the relevant issue will be evaluated. Other factors that may influence the wage gap such as changes in the functioning of the labor market are excluded from the analysis. Some references to these alternative sources of wage differentials will be made in the text however.
In accordance with what has been said, this paper focuses on the following questions. In the cases of Mexico and Chile is there a positive, negative or no relationship between trade and wage inequality? To what extent has technological change been associated with the rise in wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers in the mentioned countries? Is trade, technological change, or both to blame for the recorded increases in wage inequality? In order to answer these questions we ran regression analyses on data from both National and International sources. Depending on data availability, the analysis was limited to the 1984-1999 period in the case of Mexico and to the 1980-1995 period in the case of Chile.
The structure of the paper is as follows. The theoretical approach, relating trade liberalization and wage inequality with the focus placed on the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model, is discussed in section II. The relationship between wage differentials and technological change is also explored in this section. section III gives an overview over the liberalization process in Chile and Mexico while reviewing the results from previous studies on the factors influencing wage differentials in these countries. The econometric model is presented in section FV, which also gives a brief description of the variables and data sources. section V summarizes the results of the analysis, and interprets them in light of the theoretical approaches stated in previous sections. …


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Alternatives to Margaret?
We are expecting our second child and I'm dreading the girl name discussion with my husband. He loves the name Margaret Elizabeth and cannot let any other girl names into his heart. I love Elizabeth but simply do not like Margaret as a first name. I'm looking for names with a similar sound/style as Margaret (harder consonants is what he likes). Similar meanings (like Pearl) are less appealing to him than finding a similar sound, but worth considering.
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WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Jesse Ryder and Doug Bracewell have been dropped from the New Zealand squad for the second test against India starting on Friday as punishment for going on a late-night drinking session on the eve of the first test in Auckland.
New Zealand coach Mike Hesson told reporters in Auckland yesterday that team officials had lost confidence in the pair and they would not be considered for the Wellington match, although Bracewell was already ruled out with a broken foot.
"We need to make sure that all our players prepare themselves accordingly for test cricket, and at the moment we don't have confidence that that's the case," Hesson said of the visit to an Auckland bar until the early hours of Thursday.
"Both Jesse and Doug did not prepare themselves well for the test match and we're certainly very disappointed about that.
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13 chart types and what each is good for
There are currently 13 different chart types to choose from when exploring data on DataMarket. Several off them are variations on the same basic chart types (line charts, bar charts, tables, etc.), but each variation has its strengths and weaknesses given the data at hand and the point you're trying to illustrate.
While written with our own users in mind, this overview page might be helpful for anyone working with charts – whether on DataMarket or not:
Season's Greetings from DataMarket
To all our users, friends and followers:
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Data Visualizations and Storytelling
Slides from a presentation I did at the Data Scientist Seminar Series in Boston, December 3 2012.
Note that most of the images are links to relevant data, technologies or additional information, so click around!
Presentation at Strata NY, October 2012
Below are the slides from my presentation "Best Practices for Publishing Data" given at the Strata Conference in New York, October 2012.
The slide deck includes a lot of links to additional resources, so go ahead and click around.
Note that this is an enlarged and improved slide deck from a presentation with the same title from Strata London.
DataMarket – Energy: New Business enabled by Open Data
Last week DataMarket introduced a new product, an energy specific data service called simply: DataMarket – Energy
The venue at which we introduced the service was quite unusual. We were lucky enough to be invited – along with a selected group of other startups and innovators working with energy data – to present our work at the White House at an event called Energy Datapalooza. We have since jokingly said that in order to top this venue for our next product announcement, we will have to book the International Space Station. I'm working on that.
Here's a short video of my presentation there and the unveiling of our new service:
For those of you that have been following DataMarket for a while, you will notice that the business model for this new product is significantly different from what we have previously been running with.
When we originally kicked DataMarket.com off with international data early 2011, there was only one thing users could pay us for: A low-priced premium subscription that gave access to additional features, such as more advanced data export formats, automated reports and a few other things. A couple of months later we added the first premium data to the site; data from premium data providers such as the Economist Intelligence Unit (links to EIU data on DataMarket), resold through our site.
However, using the site's core functionality – the ability to search, visualize, compare, and download data from the vast collections of Open Data that we aggregate – has always been free. As such, DataMarket.com has become quite popular in certain circles. But quite frankly, the two revenue sources have not taken off in a big way.
What has however taken off is our technology licensing business. We've seen high demand for our data delivery technology from other information companies. The ability to normalize data from a wide variety of data sources, and enable users to access that data through powerful search and online visualization tools is something many information companies, such as market research and financial data companies, have identified a strong need for. So last February we formally introduced our data publishing tools, most prominently what we now call the Data Delivery Engine, a white-label solution that is already up and running for a few well know information companies, (including Yankee Group and Lux Research) with several other in the implementation stages. This licensing business is where most of our revenues comes from today, so one could really say that we're now more of a software company than a data company.
The upcoming launch of DataMarket – Energy is another stab at the data side of the equation, but the approach is different in several ways:
- Focus and scope: By focusing on a single industry or vertical we can make the service much more relevant to its users. Instead of solving 10-15% of everybody's data needs with the kind of macro-economic and demographic data that can be accessed on DataMarket.com, we aim to address 90-100% of the data needs of a much more targeted audience.
- Premium access: We're selling access to this service at a substantial premium (final pricing is still being decided). Those that see value in the discovery and aggregation services that we add on top of the data will be charged for the "job they hire our product to do". This indeed means that some data that has been made publicly available for free (Open Data) will only be available to DataMarket users behind a paywall. As explained in the presentation above, that doesn't take the least bit away from the value of the Open Data. On the contrary: The data is still available in its original form from the publishing organizations, but we add a choice on top of that: A nicer and more user friendly way to access the data for those that are willing to pay for that value-add.
- Targeted sales: Instead of relying as much on PR and viral distribution as we have with DataMarket.com, we'll use more direct, traditional sales approaches for this new service.
One of the interesting things about running a technology startup is that the same technology can be turned into so many different products without a single line of additional code. Often the only difference is how you promote it, price it and sell it. This can be both a curse and a blessing, and usually a few things need to be thrown at the wall before you find what sticks. Luck is involved too, but as the famous
Norwegian Swedish alpine skier Ingemar Stenmark is quoted saying: "The more I practice, the luckier I get".
It will be interesting to see if we've practiced our data marketing skills enough for the DataMarket – Energy approach to work out.
Best Practices for Publishing Data
Slides from a presentation given by Hjalmar Gislason, founder and CEO of DataMarket at Strata Conference in London, October 2012
Worse than a 3D pie chart
I have seen my share of good charts and I have seen my share of bad charts, but I never expected what I saw today.
As you may know, Hjalli and I are writing a book about chart design. We will guide you through choosing the best chart for your story, and to create beautiful and effective charts. The book will be aimed at those who want, or need, to get a chart out there but aren't that interested in the why's. We start by looking at the charts the big boys do by default and go from there, examining the parts and how to improve them.
The first chapter about chart design is about tables, which was fun to write. There was more to say than we expected.
The next chapter focuses on line charts, where I used Numbers, Excel and DataGraph to create default versions of a line chart. As I knew, there were things that could be better designed in the default versions of all applications. None of the defaults is useable in our opinion. Numbers the least.
Today, I dove into the details of my bar chart design. Called up the author of DataGraph to discuss moving axis labels by a pixel. Stared at my screen for half an hour, wondering if I want to keep the x axis on the bar chart or not. Then I opened up Numbers and Excel to create the defaults. DataGraph was already open, since I can almost do perfect charts in it already. So I started with the DataGraph default. It disappointed me a bit. The y axis didn't automatically label my bars. Other than that, it was not pretty but useable. Numbers, to be fair, does automatically label the bars.
Next up was Numbers. At first glance it looked fine, the color of the bars was okay and the bars were labeled correctly. As I checked off items in the designing-a-bar-chart list in my head, everything seemed fine. Until it didn't. At all.
In disbelief, I went straight to Excel to see if this alarm went off there as well. It did. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. I felt like George Taylor in the Planet of the apes: "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
They didn't include the zero on the x axis! This is no small omission. Their default bar chart is a lie! When comparing the bars, you must compare the full length of the bars.
You can tell both applications to include the zero, but that should not be needed. Creating a bar or column chart without the zero on the axis shouldn't even be possible. This is worse than a 3D pie chart.
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The case of a patient diagnosed with uterine cervix cancer is presented as an example of the clinical application of the radiobiological compensation method implemented at Centro Estatal de Cancerología de Durango. Radiotherapy treatment was initially modified to compensate for the chemotherapy component and, as medical complications arose during treatment delivery resulting in an 18 days gap, new compensation followed. All physical and radiobiological assumptions to calculate the Biologically Effective Dose in the external beam and brachytherapy parts of the treatment are presented. Good local control of the tumor was achieved, the theoretical tolerance limits for the organs at risk were not surpassed and the patient manifested no extensive morbidity.
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5 Jan 2007 7:26 AM #1
Animated Transitions in BorderLayout
Is it possible to have the west panel animate like the resizable animated transitions?
I haven't seen an example of it... but it would be cool if it could...
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Is this what you are looking for?
I haven't tried it personally, but it sounds like what you want.
5 Jan 2007 7:58 AM #3
Almost but not exactly...
This makes the panel animate when it is minimized or restored...
What I was looking for was the nifty animation when you drag to resize the panel...
Like the Animated Transitions
Thanks for the reply...
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I'd find it a bit annoying if the thing resized half a second after I'd done the mouse gesture. I'm impatient! I'd be doing the next operation while the thing was sliding. Don't do fancy graphical stuff just for the sake of it!
5 Jan 2007 11:33 AM #5
I can appreciate that view...
But isn't 1/2 the web development we do "fancy graphical stuff just for the sake of it"?
I know there's a happy medium of form and function...
I think Jack has found that happy medium in most everything so far...
And with being able to set the timing on the resize you should be able to add a little zing without making the impatient ones too mad...
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Austerity, Italian-styleFebruary 26,2013Two months ago, when Mario Monti stepped down as Italys prime minister, The Economist opined that the coming election campaign will be, above all, a test of the maturity and realism of Italian voters. The mature, realistic action, presumably, would have been to return Monti who was essentially imposed on Italy by its creditors to office, this time with an actual democratic mandate.
Well, its not looking good. Montis party appears likely to come in fourth; not only is he running well behind the essentially comical Silvio Berlusconi, hes running behind an actual comedian, Beppe Grillo, whose lack of a coherent platform hasnt stopped him from becoming a powerful political force.
Its an extraordinary prospect, and one that has sparked much commentary about Italian political culture. But without trying to defend the politics of bunga bunga, let me ask the obvious question: What good, exactly, has what currently passes for mature realism done in Italy or for that matter Europe as a whole?
For Monti was, in effect, the proconsul installed by Germany to enforce fiscal austerity on an already ailing economy; willingness to pursue austerity without limit is what defines respectability in European policy circles. This would be fine if austerity policies actually worked but they dont. And far from seeming either mature or realistic, the advocates of austerity are sounding increasingly petulant and delusional.
Consider how things were supposed to be working at this point. When Europe began its infatuation with austerity, top officials dismissed concerns that slashing spending and raising taxes in depressed economies might deepen their depressions. On the contrary, they insisted, such policies would actually boost economies by inspiring confidence.
But the confidence fairy was a no-show. Nations imposing harsh austerity suffered deep economic downturns; the harsher the austerity, the deeper the downturn. Indeed, this relationship has been so strong that the International Monetary Fund, in a striking mea culpa, admitted that it had underestimated the damage austerity would inflict.
Meanwhile, austerity hasnt even achieved the minimal goal of reducing debt burdens. Instead, countries pursuing harsh austerity have seen the ratio of debt to GDP rise, because the shrinkage in their economies has outpaced any reduction in the rate of borrowing. And because austerity policies havent been offset by expansionary policies elsewhere, the European economy as a whole which never had much of a recovery from the slump of 2008-09 is back in recession, with unemployment marching ever higher.
The one piece of good news is that bond markets have calmed down, largely thanks to the stated willingness of the European Central Bank to step in and buy government debt when necessary. As a result, a financial meltdown that could have destroyed the euro has been avoided. But thats cold comfort to the millions of Europeans who have lost their jobs and see little prospect of ever getting them back.
Given all of this, one might have expected some reconsideration and soul-searching on the part of European officials, some hints of flexibility. Instead, however, top officials have become even more insistent that austerity is the one true path.
Thus in January 2011 Olli Rehn, a vice president of the European Commission, praised the austerity programs of Greece, Spain, and Portugal and predicted that the Greek program in particular would yield lasting returns. Since then unemployment has soared in all three countries but sure enough, in December 2012, Rehn published an op-ed article with the headline Europe must stay the austerity course.
Oh, and Rehns response to studies showing that the adverse effects of austerity are much bigger than expected was to send a letter to finance minsters and the IMF declaring that such studies were harmful, because they were threatening to erode confidence.
Which brings me back to Italy, a nation that for all its dysfunction has in fact dutifully imposed substantial austerity and seen its economy shrink rapidly as a result.
Outside observers are terrified about Italys election, and rightly so: Even if the nightmare of a Berlusconi return to power fails to materialize, a strong showing by Berlusconi, Grillo or both would destabilize not just Italy but Europe as a whole. But remember, Italy isnt unique: disreputable politicians are on the rise all across Southern Europe. And the reason this is happening is that respectable Europeans wont admit that the policies they have imposed on debtors are a disastrous failure. If that doesnt change, the Italian election will be just a foretaste of the dangerous radicalization to come.
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Sometimes it is difficult to remove the key from the ignition lock cylinder. The dash shows a flashing green key. The lock cylinder is worn but, I need to know if the ignition switch should be replaced. When turning the key to the start position the car does not crank at all. The radio will sometimes go off in the run position when jiggling the key.
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Been on leave this week ( rebuilding suspension on my MG , and working in the evenings on the Rob Roy details.
I made up the break links and bars for the brakes , made the rear brackets and turned up the brake standard next up are the lever arms and last set of rods and ends.
Made up the rear bunker tank vent and piped up the sidetanks.
Piped up the crosshead pump and the hand pump (I am making a brass box to cover some of the crosshead pump pipework in the style of the lubricator on the other side.
Fitted the smokebox railing and when I figure out how I will fit the smokebox lamp bracket and lamp.
I keep finding little jobs to do all over the loco , but less of them now .
Got some brass sheet today to make up the removable roof and cab back sections for display .
More as and when.
Hi Tom.
Yes , I have an MGF ( had it for 12 years ) and use it rarely to zip round the country lanes in Somerset if the sun ever shines .
Did 739 miles last year .
Nearly There.
Did some more work today .
Got a quote for £35 for cut round glass to fit in turned down 1" brass tube to make new windows for the cab
Then I had the idea of looking for watch glasses on ebay . Found hardlex glasses in anything from 16mm to 30mm for £ 3.20 each PERFECT.
made up the window frames from 3 seperate turnings , press fitted and bonded together they hold the glass perfectly .
Finished the fronts , working on the backs , they are more complex as I am drilling the frames for bars.
Made and fitted the dummy whistle to the cab (the real one is under the left running board) and fitted the lamp brackets and lamp to the smokebox .
Finished all the break system and set up the brakes (they are for show prety much as they are a bit weedy to stop the loco with the throttle open
Made up and fitted the crosshead pump cover .
Working on the cab steps , back windows and bunker rail now .
The MGF was pretty much the last sports car made by MG before they went bust and got taken over by the Chinese.
Mine has a Motorsport 190(Lotus version of the MG engine) all alloy engine with variable valve timing.
Made up the cab steps this weekend and bolted them onto the running boards.
Just a few jobs left to complete now .
I am going to rig up a gas burner to test it in steam .
I am not too keen on cleaning soot and tar out of the boiler after using coal . but may be tempted to try it later .
Finished off the Rob Roy today Well ! till I think of some other job to do
Drawing out the class case and getting the display track ready now .
I am working out how to fit a gas burner into the firebox to test her under steam before casing her up .
I still have all the running tools to make , like hand pump handle , coal shovel and special keys for gland tightening (which will live in a drawer in the display case eventually).
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The good old days of the Super NES.
Give Spike some love!
In the second story I'm split between wanting to strangle Spike and wanting to strangle the random douchebag pony.
more like a Twilight and her secretary
aww -pets spike- there there, that's not real, what really happens is he lands on a bunch of pillows, next to a bunch of fruit, so it's really Mario sending him to a paradise
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Don't worry, Spike: Yoshi's a dinosaur, not a dragon. You're not murdering your kin.
Well, Yoshi can get wings and breathe fire, so...
Where is that? I'm aware I played only 50% or less of all the mario games but... I don't remember that
Yoshis Final Smash in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is to get wings and start to breathe fire. This was inspired by Super Mario World in which eating a blue shell and a red shell gives Yoshi the ability to fly and breathe fire.
blue shell = wings
Red shell = fire
mmm i can't remember the use for yellow shells, and i think there was too a multicolored shell, it was a long time ago...
Red shell = fire
mmm i can't remember the use for yellow shells, and i think there was too a multicolored shell, it was a long time ago...
I wanna keep Twilight as a pet...
KOMA 1: I know Spike, I know. I hate doing that too to poor Yoshi.
KOMA 2; Smooth.
KOMA 2; Smooth.
*sighs* I did that too many times too when I played it. I feel awful now, what have I done?? ;_;
I imagine Yoshi thinking, "Mario, why hast thou forsaken me!?" before plunging to the bottomless chasm. Certainly the series condones too much violence against reptiles in general... a nightmare for Spike, in this case. XD
hahahahaha >.<
Spike: okay so Rainbow Dash told me to jump at the right moment to reach the that level
Mario jumps and Yoshi falls in the pit
Spike: WHY!!!!????
Mario jumps and Yoshi falls in the pit
Spike: WHY!!!!????
Comment explaining the joke. Statement of appreciation.
Love these comics! Very creative. Keep up the great work!
Twilight's reaction to fetching the book. Priceless. xD
Heehee, that tail shake...
LOL. poor twilight poor spike
OMG poor Twilight.
. . . oh, and poor Spike >_>
. . . oh, and poor Spike >_>
I love your smug Spike.
Spike didn't need to see that.
these are so freaking hilarious, they always make me laugh out loud.
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Four Hours A What?
I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record, but if you don't take anything else away from anything I've written here remember this; the keys to progress are to train very hard, very briefly, and give your body adequate time for recovery between workouts. Stated differently, the worst mistakes you can make with your training are to do too much, too often, but not hard enough.
Unfortunately, these three mistakes are the most common.
It's not unusual for people who don't know any better to boast to friends and acquaintances about the amount of time they spend in the gym or "working out" each week. Never mind that most of their time is spent looking at themselves in the mirror or socializing, they're putting in the hours, and in their minds that equates to dedication.
While dedication is usually admirable, in this case it is just misguided. They are operating under the assumption results from exercise are proportional to the time invested or the volume of work performed, and that by spending more time they will produce greater results. Many also believe it is necessary to perform several different types of activities to improve different aspects of fitness; resistance training for muscular strength and endurance, steady-state activities or interval training for cardiovascular and metabolic conditioning, stretching for flexibility, etc.
All of this adds up to a lot of weekly hours in the gym.
On the low end, the American College of Sports Medicine's current physical activity guidelines recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity steady-state activity five days a week (60 to 90 for those needing to lose fat) and 30 minutes of strength training twice weekly, for a total of around 4 hours per week. On the higher end, some bodybuilding programs require up to 10 hours or more.
Whether you're a bodybuilder or athlete or someone just trying to get fit or lose a bit of fat, the actual amount of weekly exercise required for optimum results is far less.
How much less? On average only four hours a month. Not four hours a week, but four hours a month. And this assumes you're training in a gym during peak hours where crowds and inefficient equipment layouts increase the time it should take to get through a workout. If you go during off-peak hours, have a home gym or have personal training in a private high intensity training studio you can cut that time by half or more.
There are several reasons for this:
- Exercise does not directly produce any improvements, it stimulates the body to produce them as an adaptive response. For this to occur the body must be allowed adequate time to recover from the stress of the workout and produce the improvements. Depending on the individual, the intensity of training and other factors this process can require anywhere from a few days to a week or longer. If too much exercise is done too frequently the cumulative stress will exceed body's ability to recover and adapt and rather than improve you will plateau or get weaker.
- The degree to which the body is stimulated to improve is proportional to how intensely you train – not how much you do or how long you work out – and there is an inverse relationship between the intensity and volume of exercise. The harder you train the less is required and the longer the recovery needed between workouts.
- High intensity strength training will improve cardiovascular and metabolic conditioning better than moderate-intensity steady-state activity making it unnecessary to perform additional activities for that purpose.
- As long as exercises for all the major muscle groups and involving all the major joints are performed through a full range of motion flexibility will also be improved making additional stretching unnecessary.
- Neither moderate-intensity steady-state or high intensity interval training (AKA "cardio") are necessary for or make a significant contribution to fat loss. The muscle-preserving, metabolic and hormonal effects of even very brief and infrequent high intensity strength training contribute far more to improving body composition.
How can this be done in only four hours a month? Consider the following basic workouts, which address all major muscle groups.
With free weights and body weight:
- Barbell Squat
- Chin Up
- Barbell Press
- Dumbbell One-Legged Calf Raise
- Barbell Row
- Dip or Bench Press
- Stiff-Legged Deadlift
- Weighted Crunch
- Barbell Wrist Curl
- Barbell Wrist Extension
With machines:
- Leg Press
- Close, Underhand-Grip Pulldown
- Shoulder Press
- Calf Raise
- Seated Row
- Chest Press or Seated Dip
- Back Extension
- Abdominal Flexion
- Wrist Curl (Nautilus Super Forearm or Cable Machine)
- Wrist Extension(Nautilus Super Forearm or Cable Machine)
Only one set of each exercise is necessary. If the first set is done properly more sets will not improve your results but will increase fatigue and add to the limited amount of stress your body can recover from.
Using a slow, controlled speed of movement, a set of 7 to 10 repetitions should only take around 50 to 80 seconds, averaging a little over one minute per exercise. Even if you rest for two full minutes between exercises, your total workout time would be just under 30 minutes. Done twice weekly – which is plenty if you're training hard enough – this amounts to less than four hours a month.
If you work out at home or train in a private studio the rest and set-up time between exercises can be reduced significantly, cutting the time required for the above workouts down to less than 15 minutes. Advanced trainees or those working out with an experienced HIT trainer may require even fewer exercises, in some cases as little as 3 to 5.
What can a person expect from training only four hours a month?
Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week gained 34 pounds of muscle in four weeks using this approach, with only four hours of training. He covers his training and diet in detail in his upcoming book The 4-Hour Body, which also features yours truly in the section on abdominal training.
When I first started doing high intensity training using Mike Mentzer's Heavy Duty I also trained twice weekly on even shorter routines and gained nearly 30 pounds of muscle over a period of six months. I've had several male clients consistently gain a pound of muscle or more weekly over their first few months of training. One man I trained gained 8 pounds of muscle during his first three weeks of training.
I've had men and women lose huge amounts of fat training less than four hours a month as well, including one woman who lost over 100 pounds in a year and a man who lost over 30 pounds in two months.
Many people have been getting excellent results following the Body by Science program which involves once weekly 12 minute workouts. That's less than 10 hours per year. And they're getting better results than people training as many hours per week following conventional bodybuilding programs.
I train twice weekly, alternating between the following workouts, each of which usually takes about 10 to 12 minutes to complete including set up but can be finished in under 6 minutes if I rush between exercises. The specialization routine is included in every second or third rotation.
Workout A:
- Barbell Squat
- Weighted Chin Up (Nautilus Omni Multi Exercise)
- Standing Barbell Press
- Wrist Curl (Nautilus OME)
- Wrist Extension(Nautilus OME)
Workout B:
- Shrug Bar Deadlift
- Weighted Dip(Nautilus OME)
- Arm Curl(Nautilus OME)
- Standing Calf Raise (Nautilus OME)
- Ivanko Super Gripper
Arm/Shoulder Specialization:
- Negative-Only Weighted Chin Ups (10 second negatives)
- Negative-Only Weighted Dips (10 second negatives)
- Arm Curls
- Tricep Extensions
- Dumbbell Lateral Raise
Not including the minute or so it takes to load the bars or set up the multi-exercise, the total time for each of the above workouts the last cycle was 10:00, 9:48 and 9:21. My total training time for a month is less than 90 minutes.
If you're not currently working out because you thought you don't have the time, now you know you do. If you still have doubts the only thing you have to lose by trying for just one month is four hours. What you have to gain, however, is invaluable. Proper exercise can literally change your life.
If you're currently spending several hours a week in the gym and not just because you enjoy the social atmosphere (some people just like hanging out in gyms, which is fine) take a week or two off (you're probably overtrained and need the recovery time) then drop the "cardio" and just do two hard strength training workouts a week for a month or two instead. If you don't get better results (you will) or if you're really addicted to the endorphin fix of "cardio" or really do just like hanging out at the gym you can always go back to what you were doing before.
However, if you've been working out for more than an hour or two a day most days of the week you have even more to gain from cutting back than the people who haven't been working out will gain from starting; not only will your results improve, you'll also get back irreplaceable time that can be better spent with family and friends or pursuing other interests.
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Thomas October 30, 2010 at 9:35 am #
Nice article (again)-people just cannot believe me when I tell them I work out 1-1.5 hours per week (depending on wait time at my gym). It is very appealing to most, however, who have active lives and costs a lot less if you hire a trainer. I find average people need a trainer to do HIT style workouts (in the beginning at least) because they just aren't used to working out hard enough. So, everyone benefits-trainers should never have a lack for clients with this system, and trainees should never be too busy to train. I only train a handfull of people on the side, but they are all very pleased with HIT/BBS and still find it almost too good to be true.
I mentioned in a previous post that you should write about training seniors. Another great area to cover would be rehab, failed rehab (traditional) or post rehab training HIT style. With your experience, I'm sure you have done a lot of rehab training (it's almost inevitable eventually). I think HIT, if done right, may be more effective than traditional PT in many situations. Or at least a better tactic to get the client fully recovered after traditional PT has been performed.
Fabio October 30, 2010 at 1:36 pm #
Drew, when you rush between exercises, do you decrease the weights on your routines?
Diógenes October 30, 2010 at 7:59 pm #
Nice article, when I say to other people that I spend just one hour twice a week in the gym they don't believe me. I've made great progress with HIT though my diet is not state of the art. What I find most interesting is that some people I know think I'm on roids because my progress has been so fast.
Dwayne Wimmer October 30, 2010 at 8:07 pm #
Another GREAT post!!
In response to Thomas. At Vertex Fitness, we work with seniors and clients doing post rehab workouts and I can not agree with you more more. These populations benefit as much as any other. Accually, in my 22+ years using this protocol, I have not found a population that does not respond in a positive way to a properly applied HIT routine. The only problem I have had has been with the medical community that does not understand exercise. Unfortunatly most patients believe the medical professional, who on most cases have no idea about exercise, and this prolongs recovery and or progress. The problem, as I see it, is that the exercise industry is very young and we have too many self proclaimed experts in the industry putting clients in harms way. If the medical community would stop seeing patients coming from these so called experts, they may start seeing our industry as a viable profession. This will not happen until we get rid the snake oil salesman in our industry who keep doing out dated exercise protocol and routines that keep putting people infront of the medical community.
Craig Murway October 30, 2010 at 8:17 pm #
as always great article!
Jakob October 31, 2010 at 5:28 pm #
So Tim Ferriss did all 10 exercises in one workout, am I right?
No, Tim wrote he only did between 4 and 7 exercises per workout; "Focus on no more than 4-7 multi-joint exercises (leg press, trap bar deadlift, overhead press, Yates bent row, dips, incline machine benchpress, etc.)"
The ten-exercise free weight and machine workouts were included in the article as examples of full body workouts that can be completed in under 30 minutes in a typical gym setting.
Steven Turner November 1, 2010 at 11:51 pm #
Hi Drew,
Over the last few years I have been conducting my own research on heart rate training, as I have mentioned before I teach fitness courses and have many different genetic types individuals to conduct research on.
What I have found in relation to heart rate training and I must state the results are "generalisations" but typical results of most trainees.
High Intensity Interval Training – Running on the flat with a set of stairs for approximately 6 x 1 minute 30 seconds intervals with a two minute rests between or heart rate recovery to 100bpm-110bpm. Most people could reach a heart rates between 160bpm-180bpm but what was interesting was that in the first two intervals the HR reached were no higher than 150bpm, intervals 3 and 4 HR reached a peak of 160bpm-180bpm, intervals 5 and 6 HR lowered to 150bpm and below. In all intervals the HR only reached the higher end in the last 30-40 seconds before all trainees were forced to rest and recover. Total time training time approximately 24-30 minutes with heart rates reaching 160 or above for 2-3 minutes in total.
High Intensity Training – "resistance". Clients heart rates reach a high of 160bpm-180bpm after the first couple of exercises of approximately 1 minute 30 seconds per exercise to muscular failure for approximately 20-26 minutes never going below 160 bpm for the entire workout. I have trained some people up to 30 minutes with HR above 160 but find any longer than 30 minutes and they fatigue.
Circuit weight training of one hour duration (done in most gyms) trainees sometimes reach a peak heart rate of 120bpm-140bpm but peak HR is only maintained for a short period of time for the hole hour higher heart rate approximately 3-5 minutes.
My research confirmed many of the results achieved in 1975 Project Total Conditioning conducted by Arthur Jones and his Nautilus team conducted West Point Military Academy.
I must reiterate that my research is conducted by myself and are genralisations.
Thanks Steven,
Most people who have never done a proper high intensity training workout are very skeptical about it's value for metabolic and cardiovascular conditioning because they've bought into the idea one must do "cardio" for that purpose. Whatever doubts they have are usually put to rest by the time they're half way through the workout.
Ray November 2, 2010 at 12:59 pm #
Hi Drew, like the article. I've been following you/your site since I came across an ad for a SS training gym about a couple years ago. Glad I saw that ad otherwise I still might be training 'the old fashioned way'.
I've been training using Body by Science method for almost two years. I liked it because of the minimal gym time required and the metabolic results.
In the last several months, I've noticed that I'm not really gaining in strength. My guess is that I might not be training hard enough (I train by myself). I always go to failure, but maybe that 'failure' isn't quire 100% because I don't have anyone pushing me. I decided to try different exercises in hopes that mixing it up might help. I don't know if it's really helped. I'm ok with my physical appearance, but would like to see some strength increases.
Would you suggest I try a twice a week routine or something else, see if that helps? Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide. Ray
If you were making progress previously and your intensity level is the same it is probably not the limiting factor. I recommend taking two weeks off to allow plenty of time for recovery then see if your strength has increased. If it has, then you need to either reduce your volume slightly or start adding an additional day or two of rest between workouts.
As Arthur Jones said, "In the case of exercise, more is seldom the solution and is frequently the problem."
CMC November 2, 2010 at 6:20 pm #
Hi Drew,
what of the notion that a muscle becomes desensitized to a current amount of work (and intensity) over time and that simply more volume is needed, especially as the limit of muscular potential approaches?
I never cared much for ads,or people talking in general about how much they grew when they first started training. There's lots of programs out there that can get beginners to grow. I'm more interested in what is best to do as someone nears their muscular potential, hence the question above.
Not to pick on you, but since you used yourself as an example – how much more muscle would you estimate you gained after those first 6 months?
The idea that more volume is needed by advanced trainees is backwards. If you are training intensely enough to stimulate significant strength and size gains you will very quickly reach a point of diminishing returns as volume increases and the harder you train the less exercise you need and the less exercise you can tolerate. As a trainee becomes more advanced they are handling progressively heavier weights, pushing themselves progressively harder, and becoming more skilled at getting the most out of every inch of every rep of every exercise. As their workouts become more demanding they need to cut back their volume and frequency, not increase it.
Also, although mechanical definitions of work and power don't directly correlate to metabolic work, the following example may help; even if the average number of exercises and reps per workout stays the same, as a trainee uses progressively heavier weights the work performed increases because work is the product of force (equal to the resistance provided by the weights) x displacement (the distance the weights are moved, or in this case lifted over some number of reps). If you double the weights you use, you double the volume of work performed. Although the correlation is not direct, there is a relationship between mechanical and metabolic work, and if you double the work you are going to significantly increase the demand on the body, increasing the need for recovery.
The interesting thing about the muscle I gained when I started doing HIT is that was after I had already been training consistently for nearly six years, so I was not a beginner. I followed various high volume programs from high school football coaches and bodybuilding magazines since my freshman year of high school and despite thousands of hours in the gym I had little to show for it. It took a huge reduction in volume for me to start putting on a decent amount of muscle mass.
Since then the biggest I have been is 202 – which is decent for being 5'7″ with a small frame – but that was also around 15% bodyfat which is fatter than I care to be.
CMC November 2, 2010 at 8:19 pm #
I've been reading Darden's books and Jones' writing for over 20 years. I'm familiar with typical HIT advice on intensity & recovery. I do appreciate you said it to make your point about relative work load, but I find your analogy of 'double the weights, double the work, more recovery time needed' as specious since by the time you double the weights you're using, you have an entirely different body with which to deal with 'double' the muscular loading.
Do you know of any research to show how the body needs less exercise as it approaches muscular potential?
A reduction in volume and frequency is necessitated by increases in training intensity, not one's proximity to their muscular potential. However, a person will reach their muscular potential more quickly training more intensely, so it's natural to make an association between the two.
Work capacity improves with strength as one's training progresses, but this does not translate to being able to recover from an increasing demand over the same period of time, and this is not what I've experienced training hundreds of people over the past two decades.
There are no studies specifically showing the body requires less exercise as it approaches it's muscular potential for a variety of reasons, not the least of which are the prohibitively long time required to perform such a study and the ability to accurately predict the muscular potential of a large number of diverse subjects. A published study is not necessary however, as this is obvious to anyone who has trained enough people over a long enough period of time and understands the relationship between intensity and volume of exercise and the need for recovery. If a trainee's progress slows significantly or they plateau a brief layoff followed by a reduction in either the volume or frequency of training or both solves the problem, but when someone starts doing additional workouts or increases the time spent performing some other demanding physical activity their progress slows down or stops.
Unfortunately, most studies comparing different volumes and frequencies of training are not terribly useful because the subjects – often working out without proper instruction, supervision or motivation – are not training at anything even remotely approaching the level of effort I would consider "high intensity". The fact that such studies still tend to show no significant difference in results between single set and multiple set training is just further proof additional volume is of little benefit for muscular size and strength increases.
Shane Duquette November 4, 2010 at 8:45 pm #
Great article. Can't wait to read your section on abdominal exercises in Tim's upcoming book. Got one of his signed copies pre-ordered.
Read your comment on his blog. Strangely enough, without having seen it, we "followed" all of your before/after photography advice to T:
90 day before and afters (Tim's poses):
120 day before and afters (with 8 mandatory bodybuilding poses)
Great photography advice. I wish more people took it that seriously.
My best,
Andy November 11, 2010 at 2:18 pm #
thank you very much for all your interesting and helpful information!
I´m really waiting for your upcoming book.
An issue I´m confused about is exercise variety.
Many training experts say, like e.g. Brian Johnston, in order to maximize muscle hypertrophy, variety is an absolute necessity…no workout should be the same than the previous one, according to exercise selection, exercise order, use of intensity variables etc..
If a trainee stays on a non-varying routine for months after months he will get stronger due to inter- and intramuscular improvement, but will do little for optimizing his physique.
He will simply get proficient at executing these specific exercises in this specific manner, but his body will not or only marginally change.
What do you think about exercise variety, if maximizing muscle hypertrophy is the absolute goal number 1 and strength gain only a secondary goal?
Best wishes from Germany,
Variety is not absolutely necessary to maximize hypertrophy. The idea that one stops adapting to a particular exercise after a period of time because they have maximized skill or "intermuscular coordination" is wrong. If a person is performing enough exercises to effectively address all the major muscle groups to begin with very little variation is necessary over time, and what variation is necessary is not due to the body becoming resistant to stimulation from a specific exercise.
If you are training for hypertrophy your goal is to become as strong as possible. The idea one should train differently for hypertrophy and strength is nonsense. The degree of hypertrophy occurring with a particular degree of strength varies significantly between individuals, which has caused some to believe this is the case, but it's not. If you become as strong as you are capable of you will also be as muscular as your genetics will allow.
Donnie Hunt November 20, 2010 at 11:58 pm #
Hi Drew, This is regarding what you said about the differences in hypertrophy that will occur in different people. I know for myself and probably most of the people posting on here we care about the way our muscles look. We may sometimes not be happy with the way a certain muscle or muscle group develops even though we are getting stronger. Mike Mentzer made a comment about this in one of his articles once that I feel really applies here. He talked about how some of his clients made huge improvements in strength and not much to show in hypertrophy. Some his clients would also complain about there "bad" genetics of not having the aesthetically pleasing look of certain bodyparts. Mike said something along the lines of what about people that are born without certain limbs or are handicapped in some way where they can't use certain limbs. If you have a body that has all of it's working limbs where do you get off complaining about having "bad" genetics!? Not trying to be preachy here, just some things to think about.
Thank you for bringing this up. We should focus on maximizing our own potential, whatever that is, rather than comparing ourselves to others because while there is always someone out there who is bigger, more muscular, has better abs or arms or whatever, there are also a lot of people out there who would be happy to just be able to move their hands.
A paraplegic client once told me how during recovery from the car accident that paralyzed her legs she felt depressed and sorry for herself. Then one day in rehab another patient who was a quadriplegic asked if she could scratch his nose for him, which made her appreciation for what mobility she still had. She eventually made it to the US Paralympics basketball team and competed in the Paralympics games in '96 and '00 and won the gold at the '04 in Athens. In all the time I trained her she never, ever complained about injury, much less her genetics. What she did do was bust her ass on each and every exercise, each and every workout with a level of determination that would put most trainees to shame.
Andy November 21, 2010 at 6:52 pm #
after some thoughts about your comment concerning exercise variety:
If I use e.g. squats for maximizing quadriceps hypertrophy and use it for maybe three years in a row without ever using another quadriceps exercise and am finally as strong in squats as my genetics will allow, my quadriceps will be as big as my genetics will allow??
Using maybe 5 or 6 other non-changing!! basic exercises (bench presses, rows, biceps curls etc.) for the rest of my body and finally getting as strong as ever possible in these exercises, I will also have maximized hypertrophy for these muscles?? Without ever using another exercise??
Perhaps not 100%, but pretty damned close. Re-read what I said,
"If a person is performing enough exercises to effectively address all the major muscle groups to begin with very little variation is necessary over time, and what variation is necessary is not due to the body becoming resistant to stimulation from a specific exercise."
I didn't say no variation, I said "very little". While a few basic exercises are all that is required to effectively work all the major muscle groups some exercises will work some muscles more effectively than others and some individuals may need to perform isolation movements for certain bodyparts.
What is wrong is the idea that variation in and of itself provides any physiological advantage over long term progression on a more consistent selection of exercises and routines.
Petrus November 23, 2010 at 4:42 am #
Hi Drew
Thanks for all the great info on your website. This article, like all the other ones, is great.
I have also been converted from 6 days a week training (after about 20 years)to a max of 2 times a week training. My results are the best ever!
No workout lasts longer than 25 minutes!
I would like to ask you a question unrelated to this article.
What is your opinion about Hammer Strength machines for HIT?
We are starting a small gym and I am looking at buying equipment, and I would appreciate your imput!
Kind Regards
(all the way from South Africa)
I'm glad you like the articles and hope your training has benefited from them.
If you want plate-loaded equipment Hammer Strength machines are great, but I like the Pendulum Strength Systems machines better.
Petrus November 24, 2010 at 2:35 am #
Hi Drew
Thanks so much, I don't know whether I will be able to get hold of Pendulum Strength Systems in South Africa, but I will sure give it a try!!
And yes, my traing has certainly benefitted from your advice, I am 1.74 m tall, weigh 90 Kg, my upper arms are 42 cm flexed (16.8 inches), my calves 41 cm.
But like all muscle heads I aspire for more!
Kind Regards
Jack December 1, 2010 at 1:05 pm #
Tim also claims that he took at least 3minutes between exercises. As far as i know, Body by Science teached me to take no break in between. Whats your opinion on that and why?
If your primary goal is increased muscular strength and size I recommend waiting just long enough between exercises for the breathing to start to slow down a little so overall conditioning isn't as much of a limiting factor during exercises. If you are more concerned with improving overall strength and conditioning you should attempt to reduce the rest between exercises as much as possible.
Robby December 2, 2010 at 12:45 pm #
Hello Drew,
Very informative and fresh article. I will definitely give this a try and see what happens.
My only concern is the supposed results. 34 pounds of muscle in 4 weeks?
Forgive me if I come across the wrong way but those results sound…improbable, no matter how genetically efficient ones body is for weight lifting. I feel that if one NATURALLY gains that much in a month, its probably a combination of water, fat, and a little muscle.
From what I've researched, it takes quite a while to build permamnet muscle (I.e. 10lbs to 15lbs per year)
Is that honestly possible to see gains of 34lbs in a month with this regimen?? Or even 8 pounds in 3 weeks? Im just a little skeptical right now.
(still going to try the workout though to test it)
While the possible rate of muscle gain varies considerably between individuals, on average it is much higher than 10 to 15 pounds a year for a beginner, or for someone regaining a previously attained level of development after a long layoff from training. I suspect most people have very low expectations from training because their own training is relatively ineffective. In my experience, the average person can gain at least 10 to 15 pounds of muscle in their few months of training if they train and eat properly.
I mention Casey Viator, Tim Ferriss and Joe because they are examples of what is possible with proper training. If you'd like to read more, Ellington Darden's bodybuilding books contain numerous examples of individuals who have made exceptional gains with brief, infrequent high intensity training programs. A more typical result would be a gain of 1 to 2 pounds per week for the first few months of training.
Drew, how is muscle gain measured? How can one differentiate between muscle gain and fat gain, water weight, etc.?
Jonathan February 5, 2011 at 1:03 pm #
This is a very interesting article Drew. I work out frequently and try my best to eat somewhat healthy, which doesn't often work out too well. I was curious if diet and exercise played a big role in the gain of lean muscle when using this workout. Also were there any supplements used during this training, like protein, creatine, NO boosters, or whatever others out there.
Diet plays a huge role in both muscle gain and fat loss, but no supplements are required. If you're already eating a well balanced diet you don't need them, and most are a waste of money. If you're serious about getting results from your program stop "trying your best" and just make a commitment to yourself to do it.
Andy February 6, 2011 at 11:36 am #
Hi Drew,
I remember a HIT bodybuilder, named Bill Sahli, suggesting to use his "2 Day Rule"…waiting after a training session until you feel 100% recovered, muscularily and mentally. At that point you have compensated. But we not only want to compensate, but to overcompensate and lay down new muscle. So at that point wait another 2 Days until you train again.
For me that´s pretty logical and takes into account the principle of individuality.
Takes into account your individual recovery ability at any point of time, depending on daily life stressors, age, hormonal status, nutritional status, intensity of previous training session etc..
I just can say about my own: I have more to learn about exactly listening to my own biofeedback.
I think then training will be more rewarding and successful than mainly relying on numbers on my training chart.
What do you think about this suggestion to flexibly regulate training frequency? Maybe this means in week1 you train 2x and the next just 1x or 1x every 9 times?
While this may work, it is somewhat subjective. While a person shouldn't train if they don't feel fully recovered, a better way to determine an effective frequency for the individual is to keep records of workout performance. If progress slows down and there are no problems with the diet, sleep, or other factors, take a brief layoff from training then resume with an additional day of recovery between workouts.
Zach Thomas September 10, 2011 at 11:41 pm #
Hi Drew Baye,
I like the idea of this HIT, but what type of supplements do you take? Also do you think you would have the stamina to play a full sports game like soccer, football, or basketball without sucking wind too hard? Also do you have current pictures of you I can find? Thanks! (I currently workout 3-4 days a week for about 30 minutes (including rest times) and I really like my results and I don't take any supplements, and I only use bodyweight/self-resistance exercises at a high intensity always.
I have no problem maintaining a high level of effort during two-hour martial arts classes or hour long parkour sessions. I have taken creatine, fish oil, multivitamins and vitamin D3 in the past, but am currently taking no supplements at all and have noticed no negative effects on performance or appearance. Diet makes a far bigger difference.
You could cut your training back to just twice weekly and get the same or better results. Almost all the research on frequency shows no significant improvements in either strength or conditioning with more than one or two weekly workouts, and over the past two decades I've had many clients who have gotten better results training with me for only half an hour once or twice weekly after having worked with other personal trainers who had them training for an hour or more three to five days per week.
Sandor November 28, 2012 at 8:36 pm #
Hi Drew!
Great article, I really appreciate your work and agree with your overall approach regarding strength training and exercise in general. When I find contradictory information, I always come here for reference.
I recently started to read Body By Science, and I thought I would ask you something regarding a chapter I just got to, more precisely at "The Dose-Response Relation of Exercise" chapter, "Recovery of fibers" part.
I understand that the fast-twitching fibers require the most time to recover (several days), while the slow-twitching fibers can recover in a few minutes. That is the reason you don't train 5 times a week if you are doing HIT.
My question is the following:
What do you think about continuing to train, but with lower intensity, so you only train your slow-twitching fibers, until your fast-twitching fibers are regenerating? For example, on Day1 you do a full body HIT, then for the next 4-10 days you continue training with a lower intensity, allowing the FT's to recover, than you start over with Day1…Wouldn't that help if someone wants to achieve maximal results (strength/muscle growth improvement) in shorter time?
No, because there is no way for an individual to know their exact fiber type make up, no way to know at what point they start to recruit intermediate and fast twitch fibers, and the additional demands of the extra workouts will affect overall recovery.
It is always best to err on the conservative side with volume and frequency. If your body is capable of handling X volume of exercise for Y frequency training with slightly more might result in faster gains for a brief period but you will plateau due to overtraining. Training with slightly less than X volume and Y frequency might result in slower gains initially but your long term progress will be more consistent and your overall improvement will be greater.
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Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons
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As boys grow they face limits - toddlers realize that things are possible but they aren't coordinated
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Boys in nature for instance confront their relative powerlessness when confronted with nature's power - gravity posing danger, waiting out a forest fire or flood, etc. That facing of powerlessness can result in a humbling which leads to humility.
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The Wise Man's Fear (original 2011; edition 2010)
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The first book of this series, The Name of the Wind, was slow at points, but that was expected since the author has to give background information on the characters and this world. Therefore, I expected the pace to pick up significantly in this second installment of The Kingkiller Chronicles. I was wrong. Rothfuss continued his snail-like pacing as Kvothe wanders through life, and we didn't miss one second of it (that's how it seemed in my mind). Unless the author does an unbelievable job of tying the various sub-plots together in the final book, I'm going to feel like tons of pages were wasted on Kvothe's encounters with other cultures.
It seemed as though the author's imagination ran wild with all of the details of this world and Kvothe's life, and he decided to share all of them instead of streamlining them for the sake of a solid story. One example of this is Kvothe's sex fest with Felurian, and then his transformation from a boy who is speechless around girls to a dude who has "relations" with many women. It was quite odd and unnecessary for the story.
Having said all of that, I ripped through this book because I really like the characters Rothfuss has created. I genuinely like Kvothe and want to see how or if the innkeeper finds his will for life once again. I will definitely buy the final book as soon as it is available.
I loved loved LOVED The Name of the Wind.
This book, however, falls into the same category as so (SO) many sequels before it - meh.
While still better than a majority of the fantasy novels out there... it is a big hot mess. The plot is boring and hackneyed and the protagonist becomes very unlikeable... it is like watching a formerly charming friend spiral downward into an addiction.
I couldn't put down the first book, but I caught myself procrastinating on this one and finally had to force myself to finish.
Disappointing. Hoped it might be an improvement compared to the 1st one or that the story would finally click with me. So much filler material; very little happens considering the book is a thousand pages long. Oh well, he discovers sex is a thing and suddenly half way through everything revolves around it. It's just tedious. Kvothe is still annoyingly perfect.
This is one of my son's favorite authors. He grew up on Harry Potter, so I read the first book in the series and thought it was excellent, so I shared it with my then young teenager. I also said in my mind that Rothfuss could be as talented as some of the fantasy greats, but I would have to read the second book to know whether he is. Husband and son loved this book, and while I liked it, the first was better for me. Still, I will read the third which just came out, and then I think I'll be ready to proclaim Rothfuss a great, great fantasy writer?
This quote sums up Book Two to me --
"Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment."
Without giving anything way, book two is quite the journey for enlightenment.
Kvothe is still in school, and is getting a little bit cockier, a little bit richer, and a lot bit still in need of enlightenment. Just in the way that Kvothe learns to split his mind in order to win battles, Rothfuss kept splitting my mind with the endless stories in this book that spun off of the main story. Kvothe has to go on a journey, goes on another journey, goes on another journey, goes on another journey. . . I just kept wanting it to quit splintering.
Also, I wasn't all that in love with the sex nymph journey, but while I was reading I was keen enough to think: "I bet the men love this. Maybe that is what it is like for them to read my favorite romance/historical romps, such as the Outlander series." Sure enough, when I mentioned to them where I was and that I was ready for that part to be over, they both looked at me dumbfounded. Of course, it was essential to the story, I just didn't love it. I also, sadly, got a little tired of the writing style, which I loved the first time.
Still, I like the story enough that I will read the third book, so that says something.
I loved this book! It was much more thrilling and intriguing than the last and in many ways. Yet his portrayal of women is surprisingly archaic. Although the women in the book do have individual strengths, they are all treated as delicate, confusing creatures to be tiptoed around or rescued. Others use their sexuality as a weapon. Kvothe treats not a single one of them as an equal. Lastly his treatment of the two rescued girls came off as very heavy handed, sounding much more like the author's feelings than the characters.
Rothfuss takes to the Hero's Journey with a passion and depth that routinely turns the trite into the transcendent.
Rothfuss works all the well-worn conventions of the genre, with a shadow cloak here and a stinging sword there and lots of wizardry throughout, blending a thoroughly prosaic prose style with the heft-of-tome ambitions of a William T. Vollmann. This is a great big book indeed, but not much happens—which, to judge by the success of its predecessor, will faze readers not a whit.
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2011: The Wise Man's Fear continues the mesmerizing slow reveal of the story of Kvothe the Bloodless, an orphaned actor who became a fearsome hero before banishing himself to a tiny town in the middle of Newarre. The readers of Patrick Rothfuss's outstanding first book, The Name of the Wind, which has gathered both a cult following and a wide readership in the four years since it came out, will remember that Kvothe promised to tell his tale of wonder and woe to Chronicler, the king's scribe, in three days. The Wise Man's Fear makes up day two, and uncovers enough to satisfy readers and make them desperate for the full tale, from Kvothe's rapidly escalating feud with Ambrose to the shockingly brutal events that mark his transformation into a true warrior, and to his encounters with Felurian and the Adem. Rothfuss remains a remarkably adept and inventive storyteller, and Kvothe's is a riveting tale about a boy who becomes a man who becomes a hero and a killer, spinning his own mythology out of the ether until he traps himself within it. Drop everything and read these books. --Daphne Durham
Author One-on-One: Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson
In an exclusive interview for Amazon.com, epic fantasy authors Patrick Rothfuss (The Wise Man's Fear) and Brandon Sanderson (Towers of Midnight) sat down to discuss collaborating with publishers, dealing with success, and what goes into creating and editing their work.
Rothfuss: Heya Brandon.
Sanderson: Hey there, Pat. Nice talking with you again.
Rothfuss: Thanks for being willing to do this. I know you're insanely busy these days.
Okay. Let me just jump right in here with a question. How long was Way of Kings? I heard a rumor that the ARC I read was 400,000 words long. It didn't really feel like it…
Sanderson: Let me see. I will open it right now and word count it, so you have an exact number. It's 386,470 words, though the version you read was an advance manuscript, before I did my final 10% tightening draft, which was 423,557 words.
I didn't really want it to be that long. At that length we're running into problems with foreign publishers having to split it and all sorts of issues with making the paperback have enough space. I didn't set out to write a thousand-page, 400,000-word book. It's just what the novel demanded.
Rothfuss: Wise Man's Fear ended up being 395,000 words. And that's despite the fact that I've been pruning it back at every opportunity for more than a year. I'd spend weeks trimming superfluous words and phrases, extra lines of dialogue, slightly redundant description until the book was 12,000 words shorter.
Then a month later I'd realize I needed to add a scene to bring better resolution to a plot line. Then I'd add a couple paragraphs to clarify some some character interaction. Then I'd expand an action scene to improve tension. Suddenly the book's 8,000 words longer again.
Sanderson: Yeah, that's exactly how it goes.
It's very rare that I'm able to cut entire scenes. If I can cut entire scenes that means there's something fundamentally not working with the sequence and I usually end up tossing the whole thing and rewriting it. But trimming, or pruning as you described it, works very well with my fiction.
I can usually cut fifteen percent off just by nurturing the text, pruning it, looking for the extraneous words and phrases. But I wonder if in doing that there's a tendency to compensate. There's a concept in dieting that if someone starts working out really hard, they start to say, "Well, that means I can now eat more," and you'll find people compensating for the extra calorie loss by eating more because they feel they can. I wonder if we do that with our fiction. I mean, I will get done with this big long trim and I'll say, "Great, now I have the space to do this extra thing that I really think the story needs," and then the story ends up going back to just as long.
Though at least in my case I can blame my editor too. He's very good with helping me with line edits, but where we perhaps fuel each other in the wrong way is that he'll say, "Ooh, it'd be awesome if you add this," or "This scene needs this," or "Can you explain this?" And I say, "Yes! I can explain that. I'd love to!" And then of course the book gets longer and then we both have to go to Tom Doherty with our eyes downward saying, "Um, the book is really long again, Tom. Sorry."
I have a question for you, then. Did you always intend the Kingkiller Chronicle to be three days split across three books? Or did you start writing it as one book and then split it? What's the real story behind that?
Rothfuss: Assuming I had any sort of plan at the beginning is a big mistake. I just started writing. I didn't have a plan. I didn't know what I was doing.
For years and years I just thought of it as The Book in my head. I've always thought of it as one big story. Then, eventually I realized it would need to be broken up into volumes.
I can't say why I picked three books except that three is a good number. It's sort of the classic number. And while the story is working well in this format, part of me wishes I'd broken it into smaller chunks. This second book has so many plotlines. If I'd written this trilogy as say, 10 books, each one would be much shorter and self contained. More like the Dresden Files.
That's pointless musing though. I'm sure if I'd written smaller volumes right now I'd be thinking, "Oh! if only I'd written these as longer books I could play more with interwoven plot lines…"Read the full interview
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Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero as he attempts to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm where he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist.… (more)
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