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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. 

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day 41

Day 41 was the first time doing a Body Beast workout, specifically, the back and biceps workout from the Build portion of BB. It is about 45 minutes in total. The first half of the workout is just various back exercises like one-arm rows, pullovers, pull-ups, reverse rows, etc., and the second half has the biceps exercises.  The workout uses giant sets, and drop sets. Basically doing 15 reps, with a light weight 12 reps, with a heavier weight, 8 reps with the heaviest weight, and 8 reps with a slightly lighter weight. 

Sagi Kalev is an Israeli-born ex-bodybuilder. He definitely has some meathead quality to him, using phrases like "I want to get huge" a lot. Like Shaun T. in Insanity, he has his buzz words and phrases that he says ad nauseum. In this workout, it is limited equipment. Basically, one of the guys in the workout just uses dumbbells and a stability ball, whereas Sagi and the other guy use a bench for some exercises, an EZ-Curl bar. And Sagi tells you about 50 times if you have limited equipment to follow Nick. 

The workout is definitely good, and because you are increasing the weight between sets your muscles definitely fatigue, even if you cannot lift the same amount of weight as what the people in the videos are lifting. 



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