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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, October 29, 2023

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling Day 15

 Day 15 was the corrective shoulders routine from the 645 corrective workouts and Chest and Triceps from Lift 4.

The Lift 4 workout was a circuit workout, doing two blocks of quad sets. That means in each block you do one chest exercise immediately followed by a triceps exercise, immediately followed by another chest exercise, and immediately followed by another triceps exercise. Then, between each round/set of the four exercises you get a 30-second break. So, again, you are getting a cardio workout even without doing HIIT. After you do the two blocks of quad sets you have a burnout round, in which you do wide push-ups for 30 seconds, then get a 15-second break, followed by triceps push-ups for 30 seconds. The goal is to do constant movement for the entire 30 seconds, which of course gets very hard by the third set. After the burnout round you do core, which again alternates two exercises that you do for 30 seconds each for three sets. 

By the time I finished my chest and arms were spent. I was barely getting down in the push-ups and could not do the entire 30 seconds of either of the wide or triceps push-ups. And again, because you get so little rest between exercises or sets, you are still getting a cardio workout even though you are not doing any HIIT exercises. I can say that the corrective workouts from 645 do wonders for my shoulders. My right shoulder still has a smaller range of motion than my left, but it is getting better.

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