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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. 

Monday, March 13, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 1

Since I finished the three-week yoga retreat, as I said in my last post, instead of just repeating that one, I decided to switch to PIYO as my second, flexibility-based workout. PIYO is a combination of Yoga, Pilates, and Cardio, and was created by Chalene Johnson, the creator of Turbo Jam, Turbo Fire, and Chalean Extreme. 

In X3, week 4 is the transition/recovery week, so today's workout was Isometrix, which is a yoga workout with all balance poses. There is no warm-up or cool down, you just start the routine cold, but because you are balancing and using your core the entire time, you warm up pretty quickly. Basically, in the workout, you alternate between a mat-based balance move and a standing balance pose, holding each move for 45 seconds on each side. If you have done any of the P90x yoga routines you have seen all of the moves that are in the workout, but it is really just holding them much longer than you have before.

The first PIYO workout is called Align: Fundamentals, which is basically a tutorial in which Chalene shows you the various types of moves that you will be doing throughout the program, breaking down both the modified and unmodified versions of them. So, it is a little slower and she does not always do each move on both sides of the body evenly. But, it is very helpful, especially if you are a beginner (even though Beachbody labels the program as an intermediate one).  

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