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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. 

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling Day 53

Day 53 was lower body foam rolling in 645 and Full Body HIIT in Lift 4.

The HIIT workout had a bit of a different format than the prior leg day HIIT workout. There are three blocks and a bonus round, which is the same as the other workouts. However, in this one, each block has two exercises, one focused on the legs and then one that is focused on the upper body (basically the chest and/or triceps doing push-ups). The two "easiest" moves (single-leg plyo jumps and push-ups with a hop or step-up in between that you do for 60 and 45 seconds respectively. The second and third blocks introduce harder moves like triple bear, tricep to wide plyo push-ups, box squats, etc. In each block, the amount of time you do the exercises goes down but the amount of rest between them (which is never long anyway) goes down. Then you do one bonus set in which you do all six moves for 30 seconds each and no rest between the moves, and then finish with three sets of core. 

The Lift 4 workout was tough. Everyone, including Niels, who never modifies, had to modify moves during the last block of HIIT and in the bonus set. It was that hard. The core sets actually felt like rest because the regular part of the workout was so hard. 

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