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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Thursday, March 30, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 18

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Day 18 was Eccentric Lower in X3 and Define Lower in PIYO.  Eccentric Lower is a pretty fun (but still challenging) workout with a good sele...

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 17

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Day 17 was yoga in X3 and Core in PIYO. I don't really have a ton to say new about either workout. Core is probably my least favorite of...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 16

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Day 16 was Triometrix in X3 and Buns in PIYO. The buns workout is a 28-minute workout that includes mostly all squats and lunges, or some va...

Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11

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  This is a group of stories collected by the author, Damon Dimarco who started collecting the stories within months of the 9/11 attacks. Th...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 15

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Day 15 was Eccentric Upper in X3, and Define Upper in PIYO. I would say that both workouts went about the same as they did the last time I d...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 14

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Day 14 was a rest day in X3, and the core workout in PIYO. Core is a mix of easy (or at least easier) core-focused exercises and some hard (...

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 13

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Day 13 was the MMX workout in X3 and the Sweat workout in PIYO. MMX is basically a harder version of P90x's Kenpo X. You do some of the ...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Book Review: Act of Treason: (Mitch Rapp Series Book 9 Chronological Order; Book 7 Publication Order)

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  +++Warning, this contains spoilers from the prior novel, Consent to Kill+++ Act of Treason, published in 2006, is the follow-up to the nov...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 12

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Day 12 was a rest day in PIYO and the Incinerator workout in X3.  Incinerator is a very fast-paced upper body workout that consists of doing...

Book Review: Star Wars - The Battle of Jedha

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  This is now the second book in the Star Wars canon, both in the High Republic era and overall (at least for the moment). It is set on the ...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 11

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Day 11 was eccentric lower in X3 and Define Upper in PIYO.  Eccentric lower is the same concept as the upper body workout, just doing lower-...

Book Review: Landslide: The Final Days of the t***p Presidency

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  Landslide is the third book written by Michael Wolff about the 2017-2021 presidential administration. The focus of this book is on the 202...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Product Review: 3-in-1: Collapsible Magnetic Microwave Cover

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  This is a collapsible food cover for the microwave. It is made out of silicon so unlike the plastic equivalents, which cannot collapse, th...

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 10

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Day 10 was Yoga in X3 and the core workout in PIYO.  Core is a very tough workout that requires a lot of balance and core strength. So, depe...

Book Review: The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11

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  The Eleventh Day is a book that details pretty much all aspects of the September 11th terrorist attacks, from the leadup to the aftermath....
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 9

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 Day 9 was Triometrix in X3 and Define Lower in PIYO. Triometrix is a plyometrics workout involving three levels of intensity that change ov...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 8

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Day 8 was the start of block 2 in X3, which meant doing the eccentric upper workout, and was the Sweat workout in PIYO.  Eccentric upper bas...

Book Review: The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It

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  This is a book written by John Miller (who was an ABC News Correspondent), Michael Stone, and Chris Mitchell about the lead-up to the 9/11...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 7

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Day 7 was a rest day in X3 and the Define Upper workout in PIYO. Define upper has quite a few tricep push-ups and has your holding down dog ...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 6

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Day 6 was X3 yoga and Define Lower in PIYO.  Again, I would say that there were not really any changes from the last time I did either worko...

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 5

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Day 5 was the rest day in PIYO and CVX in X3. I thought that, again, CVX got a little easier, but it is still not an easy workout for me at ...

Book Review: Consent to Kill: (Mitch Rapp Series Book 8 Chronological Order; Book 6 Publication Order)

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  +++Warning, this contains spoilers from the prior book, but no major spoilers from this book+++ Consent to Kill is set (mostly) six months...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Workout Update: P90X3 and PIYO doubles workout- Day 4

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Day 4 was the pilates workout in X3 and the Sweat workout in Piyo. X3 pilates is a very challenging workout with moves that are much more in...

DVD/TV Series Review: Baywatch Season 1

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  The first season of Baywatch (or Babewatch as pretty much every teenage boy in the late 80s and early 90s called it) aired on NBC during t...

Book Review: Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars

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  This novel is a continuation of the video game Fallen Order which was set five years after the events of Revenge of the Sith and introduce...
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