Web 2.0 I sort of get it now.

So last Friday I almost had a horrible day.  It got off to a horrible start.  On the way into work my favorite radio station, 95.3 The Range, was not coming in.  I only drive ten minutes to the DART station and as far as I’m concerned KHYI is the only station I ever need.  If they play a song I don’t care for (rare) I just turn down the volume for a few minutes instead of search around for anything else.

Not only was it not coming in, but a different station was coming in loud and clear and was even announcing its channel so I knew I was tuned in correctly.  I figured that the station had undergone a format change, I don’t think they usually announce beforehand when that happens.  I was very morose at work and I used my new twitter thingy on my cellular phone to post my sadness for all of the world to see.  I even shot one at KHYI.

Now I don’t know what really happened, but the station was back when I drove home from work.  The really cool part is that 4 days later I got a tweet back or whatever it’s called:

Yes you are

Now it sort of clicks how Web 2.0 is good business.  Without twitter I wouldn’t have had that casual connection with the brand I love.  I suppose they check their facebook page as well, but I think the big difference there is that on facebook you control your brand.  Your facebook page is a garden where only your prettiest users comments are allowed to stay up.  Its also a creepy invasion of privacy (for which I get less return than Google’s invasion of privacy that I embrace).  I think that’s one of the beautiful things about twitter.  I’m sure I’ll figure out more years after everyone else has.  Anyone can post about their experience with your brand so there’s a lot more motivation for the owner to monitor and defend their presence.

I have no idea why The Range was down, maybe Brett Dillon spilled his breakfast beer on the antenna.  I knew it was back up long before I got the holla back via twitter.  Even still, I have a warm fuzzy in my heart that my favorite radio station reached out to me and that’s good business.

Supreme 90 Total Body

This is a continuation of my serial reviews of the Supreme 90 Day program.  All S90 work outs use a common warm up and cool down.

Work out: Total Body

Length: 23:18

Equipment: Dumbbells

Format:

4 super sets of 2/3 exercises, repeated 2 or 3 times in succession with a brief demonstration before the set begins.

Review:

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The fitness model Mark is Zack Morris on steroids.  His dad might be Laser from American Gladiators.  This work out had some of the same problem as Chest & Back where everyone is racing through at different speeds except one guy who is going normal pace and the 3 other people are waiting on him to finish Mark/Zack Morris is the winner of the “race”.  The demo before the super sets gives you at least a chance to catch up before the next one starts.  The model Mark is the most annoying.  He is the buffest looking guy out there and he’s doing clean & jerks with 15lb dumbbells so that he can rocket through.  If I had to summarize the workout it would be Cleans & Pushups.  There is the beginning core set with some crunches and plank core work, but each other super set has a variation of a clean (clean, clean and jerks,  clean jerk and press), a squat and a pushup and one plyometric move (plyo pushup, squat jumps, broad jump).  It was a pretty good workout.  Total body mostly ends up being back, shoulders and thigh which is an important set.  The plyometric was there just to make you a little more tired.  Overall I thought this was a good morning workout.  It lasted just long enough to break a sweat, but not so much that I’m going to sweat profusely for the rest of the day. The main reason I took points off was the pacing being so fast.

Score (out of 10): 5

Compared to P90X:

Similar to Legs & Back (except with cleans to work out your back instead of pull ups) and there was a little bit of the old Plyometrics.  S90 Total Body didn’t have enough plyo to replace the P90X Plyometrics.  If you hate pull ups and like cleans then S90 is the way to go.  I eat pull ups for breakfast so I give the nod to P90X.  I also like my plyo an hour long and separate.

 

The reviews continue.

-Steven