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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. 

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling Day 52

Day 52 was upper body foam rolling from 645 and shoulders and arms from Lift 4.

This is the first workout that combines shoulders and arms. It was a circuit workout, meaning we did two quad sets consisting of a shoulder exercise followed by a biceps exercise, followed by another shoulder exercise, and finishing with a triceps exercise. You do three sets with no rest between the exercises. Then, you have a burnout round that has one shoulder exercise (swimmers), one biceps exercise (full curls), and one triceps exercise (triceps push-ups). You do each exercise for 30 seconds, and again have no rest between the exercises, and again do three sets. Then, as usual, you finish with three sets of core, this time alternating between dumbell drivers and weighted flutter kicks, doing each exercise for 30 seconds. 

This workout was kind of another shock to the body. I would say it was a bit easier than chest and back was earlier in the week, but not much. I absolutely had to reduce the amount of weight I was using by the third set for some of the exercises and the lack of rest between sets made it very hard to keep going.

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