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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, January 8, 2023

Workout Update: Lift 4/Beginner Pilates Doubles Day 14

For Day 14, the schedule was a rest day for Pilates and a recovery day for Lift-4. However, tomorrow morning I have work commitments that are very close in time to when I would be finishing the Pilates workout, so I did Burn 1 today so I do not have to rush tomorrow, especially since it is a 40-minute workout. This basically keeps building on moves from the flow and fundamentals workouts, with a couple of the moves being what I would describe as intermediate or advanced intermediate. Basically, the kind of things you would get in a regular class. For the most part, Lisa does break down the moves before you actually do them, but there are a couple of moves for which she uses the demo move as the first rep in the set of 8 or 10 reps so if you are watching her you may start out a rep behind her. The workout is challenging, and I definitely had to pause a couple of times, but it is not impossible. 

For Lift-4 I just did the flexibility workout and skipped the foam rolling. So, I ultimately did the same number of workouts as I normally would have today, just modified things a bit. I will be back on the regular schedule on Tuesday. 

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