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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. 

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day 2

Day 2 was the Tabata Power workout. This one, after the warm-up, has a series of moves that you do for 20 seconds, take a 10-second break, and then repeat. Once you do all the moves in the series twice, you get a 30-second break, and then go to a new set of moves. The first series is all lower-body focused moves, the second series is chest and triceps, doing a ton of tricep pushup-based exercises, then you do a series of core-focused moves, and then a series of tricep dips. Then, after the last break, you go through three minutes non-stop doing a selection of the exercises from each set and ending with one minute of power jumps. So, the workout is very challenging, even though it goes by quickly.

I again followed the modifier for the entire workout which was harder this time because, as I said in the last update post, the BOD app does not have the modifier-focused video track like the DVD set does. And, there are many moves in the workout that the modifier is shown for a split second and some moves in which she is not shown at all. Luckily, I remember how to do most of the modified moves off the top of my head so it is not a huge deal. My max-out time for this workout was about 10:30. Hopefully, by the time I am in the second round I can max out around the same time that Mike, the cop whose abs Shaun T. is hitting during one of the core moves, maxes out which is in the 27th or 28th minute. This workout is hard enough that the modifier, Danielle, who is in great shape, actually has to max out during the triceps dips, around the 20-something minute mark, so it is not an easy workout to be sure, even modified. But, I got it over with, and am done for the day.

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