Day 15 was my rest day from Pilates since I did Burn 1 yesterday because of my work schedule today. So, the only workout was Lift-4's week 3 chest and triceps workout. This was another 50/50 workout doing lifting first and then HIIT cardio second. In the lifting portion, the first block is two sets of chest exercises (presses and flys) back-to-back for three rounds. Then in the next block, you do a chest move (rotating presses) and a triceps move (kickbacks) for three rounds. In the last block, you do two triceps exercises (skull crushers and triceps push-ups). Once you do all that you do three rounds of cardio, each with three moves that you do for 1 minute (180-degree squats), 45 seconds (soccer juggle), and 30 seconds (jumping lunges), respectively. Then you finish with three rounds of alternated core exercises (weighted crunches and side crunches). The workout is tough because you should be upping the amount of weight you are using from the first two weeks, and doing triceps push-ups at the end when your chest and triceps are totally worn out, his hard as hell.
Here you will find things about fitness and nutrition, mainly (but not exclusively) in relation to the Beachbody programs like P90x and Insanity. And, I will start adding reviews for Books, DVDs and Blu-Rays, and other products. All views and opinions on this blog are my own.
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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.
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