Reviews, Health, and Other Stuff

Welcome

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.

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Round 2 -Day 37

For Day 37 I just did the back and biceps workout from Lift 4, and did not do any morning foam rolling. The back and biceps workout is another 50/50 workout. Since I am still recovering from COVID, I modified the hell out of the cardio portion, even swapping out a couple of the regular exercises for easier exercises because I knew that I would not be able to breathe much during wide mountain climbers and catcher jumps.

Monday, January 1, 2024

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Round 2 -Day 36

Day 36 was corrective shoulders from 645 and the start of week 6 in Lift 4, which was the chest and triceps workout. This one was a circuit workout, so the two quad blocks were followed by three sets of push-up burnout and then three sets of core. Thankfully, I am almost back to normal today and mostly recovered from COVID. So, I was able to lift much heavier weights than I did for shoulders and legs last week. There were a couple of exercises that I used weights that were a little lighter than I would have if I had never been sick, but for the most part, I was back to lifting heavy.

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Round 2 -Day 35

Day 35 was the two recovery workouts from Lift 4. I was definitely feeling better than I had the past couple of days but I was still a bit weak and coughing so it was nice to just have the low-impact routines.

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Round 2 -Day 34

For day 34 I did the Legs workout from Lift 4, but again did it using much lighter weights than I would normally use and modifying what I could of the HIIT moves and skipping the ones I could not do. I again feel a little better than I did yesterday, so hopefully by Monday, I will be back to normal (or close to it).

Workout Update: Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Round 2 -Day 33

For Day 33 I just did the lower body foam rolling from 645 and did not even attempt to do the Lift 4 legs workout. I had a horrible night overnight but did start feeling a little better throughout the day. But not well enough that I felt like I could do even a modified workout.