Day 51 was Legs in Lift 4 and Speed 1.0 in T25. I did have to modify more of the exercises in T25 than I wanted to, but when I did the HIIT portion of Lift 4, I was able to modify less. So, it was a bit of a wash today. Overall, however, they both went fairly well.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Workout Update: T25/Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Day 50
Day 50 was the start of week 8 in Lift 4 which was the chest and back workout and Cardio 1.0 from T25.
Chest and Back was a circuit workout, with four exercises in each block and, of course, three sets of each exercise. Even without cardio, my heart rate was elevated for most of the workout, and I did break a sweat toward the end. The T25 workout went well, and I could again do more unmodified exercises throughout the workout.
Book Review: Star Wars: Escape from Valo
Escape from Valo is one of the Phase 3 High-Republic era Star Wars novels. This is a junior novel written by Daniel Older and Alyssa Wong and published in 2024. The Phase 3 novels bring the storyline back to the "present" time, which is about 230 years before the events of A New Hope. The events of the book are set on Valo, which was the planet that hosted the Galactic Fair that was attacked by the Nihil. The story is set about a year after the Nihil's destruction of the Starlight Beacon and the construction of their Stormwall, which keeps the Republic and the Jedi out of Nihil territory while trapping several Jedi and Republic worlds inside. In this book, Ram Jomaram, who was introduced in the junior novel Race to Crashpoint Tower, is making life difficult for the Nihil by launching raids pretending to be a Sith calling himself The Scarlet Skull. A group of Jedi younglings (and Nihil) track him down, and the book then becomes a cat-and-mouse chase with the Jedi trying to save one of their own and avoid one of the Nameless/Levelers.
The hardcover version of the book is moderately long (especially for a junior novel), at just under 370 pages. The book does advance the main storyline a bit, by showing that Levelers can be killed, but for the most part, the storyline is ancillary to the adult novels. Ultimately, I would say that the story is okay but the book is not one of the must-read books from the High-Republic era novels.
Monday, March 11, 2024
Workout Update: T25/Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Day 49
For day 49. I just did the modified version of the 15-minute cardio workout from 645. It went well and I found that in the jumping pulse squats because of all the squats in Lift 4 and T45, I could do the 30 seconds in each of the three rounds without modifying.
Workout Update: T25/Lift-4/645 Corrective and Foam Rolling- Day 48
For Day 48, I just did the two recovery routines from Lift 4. They went exactly the same as they did on Wednesday. There was no increased flexibility or mobility, but neither had decreased either.
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