It has been a while since I updated, so I thought now is a good time for a new post. My last post was right as I was starting month 2 of my first round of Insanity. Right after that is when the semester was winding down in school and things got pretty hectic for me.
As some know I am going back to school to take math and science classes so I can practice patent law. I already have the law degree so I am essentially doing it in reverse. For those who don't know patent law is a fairly specialized form of law that you need a science or technical background in order to practice it. I initially got a history degree for my BA, and did everything I could to avoid math. Little did I know that is the best background to have when going to law school. The upside is that after law school even the undergrad classes I considered hard are incredibly easy.
On the workout front, during the spring semester I took a jogging class, which was the bulk of my workouts for those three months. After school ended I started a second round of Insanity which I just finished. Here are my initial and final fit test numbers for this round of Insanity:
Switch Kicks - 92 118 (+26)
Power Jacks - 54 70 (+16)
Power Knees - 103 125 (+22)
Power Jumps - 45 70 (+25)
Globe Jumps - 7 11 (+4)
Suicide Jumps- 10 13 (+3)
Push Up Jacks- 16 30 (+14)
Low Plank Obl- 40 53 (+13)
I am now going to do a round of P90x, with at least for a time, a lot of added cardio. I am taking most of the month of July off from work so I am going to take the first month and do a hybrid doubles program of P90x. Basically, I will follow the P90x classic program, but add a second cardio workout later in the day, which will be piecemeal from Insanity, Chalean Extreme and the Cardio-x routine. I do not want to lose all the cardio conditioning gained from Insanity, and this plan should keep things from getting too repetitive.
My last month of P90x will overlap with my first month of the fall semester in school. I am going to finish it out, even though I will be really pressed for time going to school part time and working full time. At that point I will not be doing doubles any longer. Once I finish that out I will probably use the workout facilities at school, but I will figure all that out when the time comes.
Here you will find things about fitness and nutrition, mainly (but not exclusively) in relation to the Beachbody programs like P90x and Insanity. And, I will start adding reviews for Books, DVDs and Blu-Rays, and other products. All views and opinions on this blog are my own.
Welcome
Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.
I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.
I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time. As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree.
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