Reviews, Health, and Other Stuff

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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Saturday, December 17, 2022

Book Review: Star Wars: Battlefront II - Inferno Squad

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  This is a Star Wars canon novel set after A New Hope, that is told from the perspective of the "regular" (non-sith) imperials. T...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day Round 2 Day 45

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Day 45 was Max Out Strength again. As has been the case with the past few workouts, I maxed out at pretty much the same point as I did last ...

Blu-Ray/TV Series Review: Blindspot: Season 2

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  +++Warning, this contains spoilers from season 1, but no major season 2 spoilers+++ The 22-episode second season of Blindspot aired during...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

DVD/Movies Review: The Librarian Trilogy

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  This is a two-disc set containing the three Librarians movies, starring Noah Wyle in his first major post-ER role. Wyle stars a Flynn Cars...

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day Round 2 Day 44

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Day 44 was Max Out Sweat. Again, the workout was pretty similar to last week. I think I am currently plateauing on the Max 30 workouts, so a...

Product Review: Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives

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  This is an adapter that, when it works, allows you to get files off of old hard drives. It does give you connectors to hook up to a SATA o...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

DVD/Movie Review: The Hot Spot

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  The Hot Spot is a 1990 crime-drama combined with an erotic thriller directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Don Johnson, a young Virginia M...

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: Jackie

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  Jackie is a 2016 movie starring Natalie Portman, playing Jaqueline Kennedy, and is based on an interview that she gave to Theodore H. Whit...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: Rings (2017)

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  Rings is a very loose sequel to, but mostly a reboot of The Ring and The Ring 2, which starred Naomi Watts. This one again involves the vi...

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day Round 2 Day 43

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Day 43 was Max Out Power again. I was able to make it about a minute longer than last week, so I maxed out over halfway through the workout....

Book Review: Star Wars: Rebel Rising

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  Rebel Rising is a young-adult novel that fills in the time-jump gap of approximately thirteen years that occurred at the beginning of the ...

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day Round 2 Day 42

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Day 42 was Max Cardio again, and it went a little better than last week in terms of my max-out time, but I was still very tired at the end a...

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day Round 2 Day 41

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Day 41 was the P90x back and biceps workout. It went well, but I was not able to hit the 10-rep max for any of the exercises. So, next week,...
Monday, December 12, 2022

Blu-Ray/TV Series Review: Charmed - Season 6

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  The sixth season of Charmed is really a long serial arc that continues the storyline set up at the end of season five, with the arrival of...

Book Review: Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills

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  This is a junior novel set around the characters of Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus, the characters introduced in the movie Rouge One. This b...

4k-UHD/Movie Review: Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

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  This is the final entry in the six-movie action-horror zombie apocalypse film franchise adapted from the Resident Evil video games, starri...

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day Round 2 Day 40

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For Day 40 I switched it up a bit and did the Kenpo-X workout from P90x. I did that for a couple of reasons, first I attended a birthday par...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day Round 2 Day 39

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Day 39 was Friday Fight Round 2 again. This workout was interesting because, as has been the case for the past couple of workouts, I definit...

Workout Update: Insanity Max 30/Chalean Extreme/Body Beast/P90X Hybrid Day Round 2 Day 38

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Day 38 was the Max Out Power workout again. It was still very hard, but I found myself being able to do more during the workout, even though...

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: Get Out

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  Get Out is a 2017 suspense-thriller with a little bit of horror movie mixed in that was written and directed by Jordan Peele (in his direc...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

4k-UHD/Movie Review: Passengers (2016)

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  Passengers is a 2016 movie starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence (not to be confused with the 2008 film of the same name starring Ann...

Book Review: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - The 20th Anniversary Edition

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  Heir to the Empire was the book that, in the early 1990s, started what would become known as the Star Wars Expanded Universe, and what is ...
Friday, December 9, 2022

DVD/TV Series Review: Bones: Season 1

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  Bones was a procedural crime drama that aired on FOX starting in 2005. It starred David Boreanaz  (best known for his role as Angel on Buf...

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: Firestarter

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  Firestarter was the other movie made in 1984 starring a young Drew Barrymore (Irreconcilable Differences, being the other one) who was two...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Product Review: Samsung Replacement Battery EB-BG360CBU 2000mAh For Galaxy Core Prime G360

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  This is a replacement battery for the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime smartphone. It is the exact battery that comes with the phone and is very ...
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