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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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Product Review: Tomcat Kill & Contain Mouse Traps (2-pack)

Back before my townhouse was renovated in 2020 I had a family of mice in the walls, and they would occasionally get into the living areas....

Monday, August 21, 2023

Book Review: Assignment Oswald

Assignment Oswald is mostly a first-hand telling of the events surrounding the assassination as the author, James Hosty experienced them. ...

Textbook Review: Modern Control Systems

This book is very mixed. It does some things well and some things very badly. What it does well is give a lot of real-world examples and g...

Product Review: Helping Hands Soldering Station

This is a good inexpensive soldering station and is definitely worth the price. The soldering iron is fine but would have been better with...

Product Review: CAP Barbell Flat/Incline/Decline Bench

This is a very nice bench for beginning lifters. It is lighter weight (just under 30 lbs) so it is not as heavy as those you would see in ...

Workout Kit/Program Review: P90 Base Kit

This is a program designed to get you ready for the more intense workouts that Beachbody offers. It is mostly tailored to get you ready fo...

Product/Workout Kit Review: T25 Gamma Cycle

This is a very good continuation of the T25 workouts. It is designed to be a third cycle after finishing Alpha and Beta, This cycle is mor...

Product Review: (25) CR2025 Lithium Cell 3V Batteries

I have a heart rate monitor watch and a couple of other devices that use these batteries. These are definitely the best price around, basi...

Textbook Review: Electric Circuits 9th Edition

There are worse textbooks out there than this one (for example the textbook I had to use for multivariable calculus) but not many. The pro...

Workout Kit/Program Review: Focus T25

T25 is one of the BeachBody (now BODI) workout programs created by Shaun T, who also created the wildly popular program, Insanity. I own a...

Product Review: Samsung BD-FM57C Blu-Ray Player with Wi-Fi Streaming and HDMI Cable

I bought this as a new primary blu ray player since the Vizio player I was using is no longer doing firmware upgrades. I do not use the ap...

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Product Review: Heavy Duty Metal Wall Brackets

I got these to help stabilize very large floating shelves. The townhouse I live in has horrible wall studs, so anything that needs to be s...

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Product Review: Marilyn Monroe 2018 Wall Calendar

This calendar has a great selection of black-and-white pics of Marilyn Monroe (there are no color pics in this one). What I liked about t...

Book Review: My Heart is a Chainsaw

My Heart is a Chainsaw is a novel written by Stephen Graham Jones and published in 2021. The book is set in a lake town in Idaho called Pr...

Saturday, August 12, 2023

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 47

Day 47 was the lower back routine in XB and the total body tempo workout in 645. I really like that lower back routine (which is why I have ...

Workout Update: 645 and XB Stretch Hybrid - Day 46

Day 46 was upper body strength in 645 and lower body flexibility in XB. Again, I really did not get any closer to doing a split on either si...

Product Review: Re-Fuel Power Bank

I purchased this a couple years ago, and use it for when my phone is low on power and I do not have access to a plug. Most recently I used...

Product Review: Sensi ST55 Programmable Thermostat

I got this back in 2017 to replace my non-programmable thermostat. The installation was very easy, just download the Sensi app onto your s...

Product Review: Fitbit Alta

This is an older model Fitbit and did not have all the bells and whistles of the higher-end models (especially the newer models), but it d...

Product Review: Epson Perfection V19 Color Photo & Document Scanner

I mostly used this to scan documents to upload when I needed to turn in my homework when I was in school. When I initially set it up, it w...

Product Review: Amazon Echo (1st Generation)

I have one of these (which I ordered from another site that was offering them at a lower cost at the time) and one echo dot. I keep this o...

Product Review: Kasa Smart (HS100 KIT) Plug 2-Pack

I bought a pair of these along with the Echo (not through Amazon). I found them to be fairly easy to set up. You do have to download an ap...

Product Review: Polar A300 Heart Rate Monitor and Fitness Tracker

I received this as a gift last Christmas back in 2015. I have been mostly satisfied with it, aside from a couple of issues I will highligh...

Book Review: Star Wars: Lords of the Sith

This is one of the first, in time and chronology canon novels (aside from the existing novelizations of the six movies) to be released und...

Book Review: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Novelization

This is, probably the best novelization of any of the Star Wars films. While Episode III is probably considered the strongest of the prequ...

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