On day 64, it was back to two-a-day workouts. I did the cardio challenge workout from Max 30 in the morning, and Sweat 3-4 and Ab-Ripper 200 in the evening from Power 90. My approach to the Max 30 workouts is to do unmodified exercises for as long as possible in each block, then switch to modified. That way, I can work my way up to doing a fully unmodified round. I will count maxing out when I have to take a break from the modified exercises, which this time was at about 12:50 into the workout. I did the unmodified version of every exercise in the workout for as long as I could in the first round of each block. For some exercises, that was the entire 30 seconds, and for others, it was about five seconds. In the second and third rounds, sometimes I started with the unmodified versions and switched to the modified, and for some exercises, I just did the modified versions in the second and third rounds. That was tough and emphasized how much harder the high-impact versions of the exercises are than the low-impact versions. The Power 90 workout went fine. I have taken to doing the Ab-Ripper workout as the warmup since the Power 90 warmup is pretty useless by today's standards, where he warms up with a ton of static stretching.
Here you will find things about fitness and nutrition, mainly (but not exclusively) in relation to the Beachbody programs like P90x and Insanity. And, I will start adding reviews for Books, DVDs and Blu-Rays, and other products. All views and opinions on this blog are my own.
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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.
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