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Monday, July 17, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 21

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Day 21 was a rest day for 645 and the mid-day move routine in XB-stretch.  Mid-Day move is an okay routine. Not my favorite of the group, bu...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 20

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Day 20 was cardio in 645 and Restore in XB. The cardio routine did not really recycle the week 1 exercises like the other workouts this week...

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 19

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Day 19 was Total Body Tempo in 645 and Unwind in XB-Stretch. Unwind is one of the 15-minute routines in XB that I like and will definitely k...

Book Review: Legend: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe

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  Legend is a biography of Marilyn Monroe written by Fred Lawrence Guiles and published in 1984. It is actually a follow-up to his 1969 bio ...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 18

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Day 18 was the Restore routine again in XB-Stretch and Upper Body Strength in 645. I felt like I was not quite as flexible in parts of the R...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 17

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Day 17 was again a low-impact day. The XB routine was Signature Stretch and the 645 routine was mobility and flexibility. Signature Stretch ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 16

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Day 16 was Restore in XB Stretch and Total Body Power in 645. Restore was similar to a couple of days ago. My range of motion was not any be...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 15

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Day 15 is the start of week three of 645 and nears the end of the adapted version of XB stretch that I have been doing. So, today was Mobili...

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 14

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Day 14 was the Restore routine again. I did this one in my room using my bed as support as opposed to in my basement where I use a folding c...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 13

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 Day 13 was the Refresh routine in XB and Cardio 45 in 645. The Refresh routine is the one I was supposed to do on Thursday, but looked at t...

Book Review: Total Power (Mitch Rapp Series #19)

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  Total Power is the 19th book in the prolific Mitch Rapp series of novels. It was published in 2019 and is the sixth book in the series wri...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 12

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Day 12 was the Restore routine in XB and total body tempo in 645. Nothing new to report about the Restore Routine. It went the same as it di...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 11

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For Day 11 I did the Realign workout in XB stretch (it was supposed to be Refresh, but I did the wrong one) and Week 2 of upper body strengt...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 10

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Day 10 is essentially a recovery day. It is the Restore routine in XB and the Mobility and Stability routine in 645.  During the Restore rou...

Book Review: Star Wars: Visions - Ronin

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  This is a unique, but kind of weird story that blends Star Wars with an old Japanese Samurai story. Because it is totally removed from any...
Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 9

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Day 9 was Energize in XB stretch and Week 2 of Total Body Power in 645. Energize was a little easier than it was the last time I did it. The...

Blu-Ray/Movie Review: American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt

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  If you take portions of the plots of American Ninja 1 and 2, combine them with any other martial arts movies that involve a tournament (e....

DVD/TV Series Review: Baywatch Season 6

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  The sixth season of Baywatch aired during the 1995-1996 TV season. Yet again, the show had a lot of cast turnover with David Charvet mostl...
Monday, July 3, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 8

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Day 8 was the Restore routine in XB and Week 2's version of Lower-Body Strength in 645. I definitely feel like I progressed a little bit...

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 7

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Day 7 was a rest day in 645 and the Mid-Day Move routine in XB. Mid-Day move is another one in which you stand the entire time, but it does ...

Book Review: The January 6 Report

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  This is the official Congressional report of the January 6th domestic terror attack on the US Capitol during the certification of electors...
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 6

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 Day 6 was Cardio in 645 and Restore in XB. The cardio workout included about 10 minutes of warmup, the regular workout, and about 5 minutes...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 5

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Day 5 was the unwind routine in XB and the Total Body Tempo workout in 645. The "unwind" routine went well. It really focuses on h...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 4

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Day 4 was the Restore routine in XB and the first upper body strength workout in 645. The Restore routine went fairly well. For some reason,...

Book Review: Lethal Agent (Mitch Rapp Series #18)

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  Lethal Agent is the 18th book in the Mitch Rapp series, published in 2019. It is the fourth book in the series written solely by Kyle Mill...