Trip Like I Do

Firm Slim and Sculpt Stability Ball

Okay, so the Firm recently came out with some new workouts. They were released on September 9th, but you wouldn’t know it since it’s kind of hard to actully find them in stores or only a few places online actually have them in stock.

I found one at WalMart and the others I ordered online through Amazon. I gave a brief overview of the others I received previously. I received The Firm Stability Ball and workout yesterday. I was pretty excited about it because I have wanted a stability ball for awhile now. Tom got one while we were in Portland, but it was too big for me to use comfortably. Of course I filled it up and tried it out last night and man was it awkward and hard. The workout itself doesn’t seem that hard and seemed like it was a greatest hits compilation of stability ball exercises. But, it was pretty challenging for me at least since you really do have to concentrate on your form and fight to keep yourself on the ball without falling off. Like for example one exercise was lunges while holding the ball. Lunges - no problem - lunges while holding the ball and moving the ball side to side - ACH!!!!! - mostly because it felt like my center of gravity was off and so you really gotta keep things together in order to perform the exercise properly without falling over - like I would. LOL.

I kind of felt in my lower back, which is a good thing because I know my lower back has become weak and I need to strengthen it - a lot.

I just wished the workout was a bit longer and that there were more sets to a lot of the exercises - that would have made the workout even better - it felt like it was too short in order to really work the muscles. There was one set of leg lifts - I like leg lifts - but 1 set? It would have been more effective if there were 2 or 3.

But, I do have several workouts that require a stability ball, so I am cool with that. Plus, lying on the ball feels so good - it really stretches my abs out. Wheee.

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Spam Spam Spam Spam

Bob Damn Spammers are really starting to piss me off. Over the last couple of months I have been getting at least 5 to 10 comment spams every day. I suppose it should be a little flattering that someone out there thinks that this site actually generates enough traffic that it is deemed spammable, but come on! This is getting ridiculous. Thank goodness wordpress has a pretty good comment spam filter plugin otherwise all the comments here would just be full of ads for illegal narcotics or viagra.

But what’s worse now is that some asshole out there has now decided to spoof my domain and create fake email addresses using my domain. Fuckers. I just had to delete about 30 emails from mailer daemons about undeliverable mail coming from fake email addresses from my domain. Sure 30 isn’t much, but makes you wonder about just how many emails actually went through.

This kind of crap is intolerable. How many morons out there actually would click on those links thinking that they can buy the crap in the emails anyway? Or would actually buy stocks listed in a spam message?

At least my page logs these fuckers’ ip addresses, I just wish I knew what I could do with them to get back at these jerks. It’s really a shame that Blue Frog went down because of spammers.

Blue Frog was this service where if you signed up with them and got a spam message, their service would go to the webpage listed in the spam and request that your email address be removed from their mailing lists. Now if they are in the US, they would have to comply and remove you. However, once Blue Frog went into effect, a couple of spammers got really pissed at them and starting DOS attacks against Blue Frog servers - which eventually forced them to close up shop.

Last I heard Blue Frog was working on a kind of peer to peer ad hoc network to est up shop again, but without central servers so DOS attacks wouldn’t be possible. Gawd, I hope that works out.

Add comment October 1st, 2006