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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. 

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling Day 2

For day 2 it was the Legs 50-50 workout from the "Before Lift-4" workouts and the corrective hips routine in 645.

The Lift 4 workout was, as the title suggests, one that is half lifting and half cardio. The lifting portion of the workout consists of two blocks of work in which you do two leg exercises, back to back. In the first block, you alternate between front-loaded squats and deadlifts. In the second block, you do goblet squats (sumo squats holding one weight in front of you) and calf raises. For the cardio portion, you do three sets of two moves, soccer runs and low squats in which you stay in a squat position then hop to face one side, back to the front, and then to the other side. Then you finish off the workout with three sets of a core-focused move, specifically side planks, holding it for 30 seconds on each side. Again, the workout goes very quickly and you are working cardio the entire time because there is very little rest between sets. This is more similar to what the "regular" Lift 4 workouts are like than yesterday's workout, just a bit shorter.

The corrective hips routine was actually a routine that included work (foam rolling) the hips and the lats, as well as doing some squats with the foam roller between the wall and your back. Amoila does a good job breaking down what every move in the routine helps with or helps to correct, and he stresses that you can foam roll longer than the 30 seconds per move that they are doing.

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