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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. 

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Product Review: Tae-Bo workout

 


Tae-Bo was a hot new home workout phenomenon back in the early 2000s. I am not sure that it ever reached P90x levels of popularity, but it was definitely the hot informercial-based workout of its time. It is old enough that it was actually released on VHS and DVD. 

The workouts are a combination of martial arts (taekwondo) and boxing, hence the name. There are four workouts. A basics/instructional workout Tae-Bo: Instructional, that lays out the movements you need to successfully complete a workout.The Tae-Bo: Basics workout is a 27-minute workout (5 minutes of warm-up, 18 minutes of Tae-Bo, and 4 minutes of cool-down). 

Once you can get through the basics workout, then you can move on to Tae-Bo Advanced. The advanced workout is a 57-minute workout that also, In addition to the short warm-up, the cool-down, and the 30 minutes of Tae-Bo, also includes 18 minutes of ab work.

Finally, for when you are short on time, there is a compacted 8-minute workout that ends up being 14 minutes long when you include warm-up and cool-down. Even though it is short, it is just as intense as the other workouts. 

Overall, I would say this is a good workout to pair with something else. It is pretty much just cardio and abs, so if you like lifting weights it is not going to be a complete workout program. Blanks does have an uplifting attitude and does the entire workout all-out showing he can clearly do his own workout. I do think if you are going to do at-home workouts it is good to have a good mix of options to keep yourself from getting bored and keep your body from adapting. It is definitely a good option to add to your workout mix. 

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