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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, January 15, 2024

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Round 2 -Day 50

Day 50 was corrective shoulders from 645 and the start of week 8 in Lift 4. That meant the Lift 4 workout was again chest and back, this time doing a circuit workout. The circuit consisted of two quad blocks which had you doing two chest exercises and two back exercises, back-to-back, with no rest. You do three sets of each exercise in both blocks, The final block is a burnout block with regular push-ups, back extensions, and wide push-ups, each done for 30 seconds back-to-back with 15 seconds of rest between each move. You again do three sets of the burnout and then finish with three sets of core.

I can definitely feel that I can get deeper in the push-ups (but I am still modifying them). I am not sure why my range of motion has diminished from when I was doing 645, but thankfully, it is coming back. 

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