so, last night, i did a pseudo c25k night and p90 weights. i just wanted to see where i was at with running and see if i'd have shin splint issues with c25k. The session went really well, actually, my speed was really good. Although, started having shin splint pain towards the end, and today they hurt a bit. I've been working on doing the exercises for them that seem to help, and I'm going to make tonight an off night, so hopefully tomorrow I don't have pain. Going to try to do c25k tomorrow night and start out on week 3 and see what happens. I know to some extent that they'll hurt until they get stronger, and the only way to get them stronger is to use them, so. I dunno. If the pain gets worse, I'll stop - it's not too bad now.

Yesterday I was looking at some body building stuff. I was curious about what i'd read about the statement that the Jillian person on 'The Biggest Looser' said about loosing fat/gaining muscle and doing some research on that. I think ultimately, her point was that you're not going to be gaining a huge amount of muscle a week - so like for those people that are loosing 5+ lbs a week on the show, they're not going to be gaining 4 lbs of muscle. Which makes perfect sense. However, if you're only loosing 1-2 lbs a week, you might negate loss with gain.

But, while researching that, came up with this:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/04/29/from-geek-to-freak-how-i-gained-34-lbs-of-muscle-in-4-weeks/

In that link, he mentions some little-known research into body building and eating. I wonder how many things out there that are good for you get buried simply because it means that the agri-business and drug businesss wouldn't be making as much money. I find the relationship between the agriculture business, the drug companies and the government kind of interesting. Mostly that those businesses have SO much power. It's like the African plant that makes bitter things taste sweet - it's illegal in the US to have it. Why? I bet the sugar industry knows why. And that's probably the only reason why. Or the whole pushing of the idea that fat makes you fat - but carbohydrates are just fine. Think the wheat/bread industry has anything to do with that?

Last night, I did weights really slow - often doing a set of 8 in the time that the video was doing 15, sometimes longer. I'm feeling it today. I drank some endurox after so that I'd, well, be able to move today. The endurox tastes more or less like orange kool-aid. The biggest problem with it is getting it to mix, I find it mixes best if I mix it in warm water and then add cold water to it to get it to a cool-ish temp. I had a snack afterwards too - I need to have yogurt more often, I think. Need to boost my calcium intake a bit, and having the protein after working out helps. I've been doing a snack of fage yogurt + honey + blueberries + 1/2 cup (give or take) of kashi golean. It's a ~300 calorie snack, but that's generally not an issue for me. Yesterday, I had ~2600 calories (my goal is 2000), but I also exercised for ~1500 calories. I was going to make it a goal of just doing yogurt 3 nights a week, but next week i'm going to get enough to do every night - without the golean or honey, it's not that bad calorie-wise.

I shall ramble on more now! Or not.