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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, August 21, 2023

Product/Workout Kit Review: T25 Gamma Cycle

 


This is a very good continuation of the T25 workouts. It is designed to be a third cycle after finishing Alpha and Beta, This cycle is more focused on strength training than in the first two cycles. However,  it focuses on muscular endurance (high reps with lighter weights) than it does bulk. For most of the weight training moves there are so many reps that even if you are in great shape and strong you will probably not be able to use more than 15lb dumbbells (which is what Shaun T is using in the workouts).

Like in the Alpha and Beta cycles, this has Tonia doing modified moves, and there is someone using bands for all the resistance exercises. The cardio workout (speed 3.0) does not however have any modified moves in it. Although most of the moves were contained in the other speed workouts so if you have to modify you can. But it is much more of an "insanity light" workout than the others. In fact, if you want to try insanity but cannot do it yet, working your way through the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma cycles of T25 is a good way to do it. Many of the same moves that are done in the insanity workout show up in the Speed 3.0 workout so you get a taste of what that is like.

Like in the other workouts, there is no traditional warm-up. The workout just starts and does kind of ease you in before the harder moves. The cooldown comes after the workout ends, but you have to wait a few moments until after they do all the high fives if you want to do the cooldown. All in all the workouts are very good. I personally think this should be sold with the Alpha and Beta rounds as opposed to separately, but it is different enough from the other rounds I can see why they did it (besides just to make more money). There are some higher-impact moves in this one if you do not modify them, but unlike Insanity, you can adapt almost everything to your skill level if you need to.

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