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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. 

Friday, November 10, 2023

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling Day 46

For day 46, I just did Lift 4 Legs, which was the HIIT workout. I did not have enough time in the morning to do the foam rolling from 645 and by the time I had time to work out in the evening, I was not up for doing two. So, I will do the lower body foam rolling in the morning. 

The HIIT workout was tough (as usual). The "main" part of the workout was three sets of four exercises that you do for 60 seconds (single leg lunge jumps), 45 seconds (triple bear), 30 seconds (soccer runs), and 15 seconds (jump squats). After the third set, you do two burnout sets in which you do all four exercises for 30 seconds. Again, during the main three sets there is very little rest between exercises, and in the burnout sets there is no rest. Then, you finish with three sets of core which were side planks, 30 seconds on each side. I again was modifying during the workout left and right. Instead of doing triple bear, I was trying to hold the beast position (with my knees 2 inches off the floor) for as long as I could, dropping to my knees for a couple of seconds and holding again. The idea is that the next time I do the workout I will actually be able to do at least the actual modification of triple bear the entire time, if not the unmodified version.

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