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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. 

Saturday, March 5, 2022

Workout Update: P90X Day 89

 Day 89 was the first and of course, the only time I did Cardio-X this entire round. Basically, it is a combination of the yoga workout, the plyometrics workout, the Kenpo workout, and the core synergistics workout. It takes what I think are the best parts of each workout (Dreya Rolls aside) and puts them into one workout. So, it is actually good to use as a supplemental workout because it will make at least portions of those other workouts easier. For example, in yoga, you do the sun salutations to warm up, then you do the asana sequence up through reverse warrior. Then, you go into Kenpo and do some of the kicking and punching sequences from the regular workout, then you go into plyo, doing 30-second sequences of some of the moves then add in wacky jacks, which, if you have done power-90 you will recognize. That is the only move that is really new to P90x. Finally, you finish with some of the moves from the core synergistics workout. All in all, the entire workout is about 47 minutes long, including the warm-up and the cool-down. So, I definitely think I will work it into the rotation more when I do the second round of P90X after I do Chalean Extreme. 

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