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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 11

Day 11 was the shoulder workout in Lift 4 (which is an interval workout) and the upper-body foam rolling from the 645 corrective routines.

My upper body was still very sore from the first two workouts this week so the foam rolling absolutely helped. The shoulder interval workout was short but challenging. In this workout, we had three blocks. In each block, you do two shoulder exercises, back-to-back with no rest and then do a HIIT move for 30 seconds. You do each block for three sets with 30 seconds of rest between the sets. I again tried to use the same weight I ended with for each exercise during the first round of Lift 4. That worked for some of them, for others it was on the edge of being too heavy, and for one exercise I had to drop the weight down. Once you get through the three blocks, you finish with three sets of two core-focused moves. So, even though the workout is 30 minutes, it packs a lot in, and you are basically doing a cardio workout the entire time.

 

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