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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, October 30, 2023

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling Day 22

Day 22 was the corrective shoulders routine from 645 and the first day of week 3 in Lift 4. That means doing week 3 Chest and Triceps.

The Lift 4 workout was another 50/50 workout, doing half resistance work and half cardio for the main portion of the workout and finishing with core work. The resistance portion of the workout consists of three blocks of work in which you do two exercises. The first block has bench presses and chest flys, the second block incorporates triceps by doing rotating bench presses and triceps kickbacks, and the third block is just triceps-focused doing skull crushers and tricep push-ups. You do each block for three sets and there is very little rest between the sets. The cardio portion has three sets of three exercises that you do for 60, 45, and 30 seconds. Unlike in the first two weeks in which you did the hardest move for 30 seconds, this week the 60-second exercise is 180 jump squats (the hardest of the three), the 45-second exercise is soccer runs (the easiest of them), and the 30-second exercise is jump lunges. Of course, there are modifications available for each move. All but one of the cast members doing the unmodified moves had to switch to the modification at some point during the three sets. The two core exercises are a weighted crunch-leg lift combination and side reaches.

The Lift 4 workout was tough. I was able to increase the amount of weight that I used from the first two weeks for each exercise by anywhere from 2.5 to 5 pounds (in each hand), depending on what exercise I was doing. I did modify all of the cardio moves, however. The corrective shoulder routine from 645 has absolutely been helping me and has increased my range of motion in both shoulders. 

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