Originally posted by Pheedno
What up brotha. Hope this cycle does the trick for you. With frequent changes in diet, training, and cardio; I think you'll be good to go
a few suggestions:

You have shin splints as T-O-J stated. I get them on or off. What I do is sprint as far as possible to get the heart rate up, and then fast paced walking. This keeps the heart pumping and takes it slightly easier on the splints. Or you could add swimming into your cardio regimine to ease it up on the legs a bit

As far your fat loss, I would suggest manipulating your carbs and fats. Carbs directly before working out, simple carbs directly after your workout, and a good starchy carb 1-1.5 hours after workout replenishment. All other meals I would shoot for a higher fat content and minimal to zero carbs.

I would also extend your cardio to 4-5 days, in the mroning, and no less then 45min. at medium intensity.
Sounds like a plan brother! Always good to hear your feedback. I think that they are probably shin splints, but I went to the doc yesterday and she referred me to a sports medicine doc. I have my appointment on friday afternoon, so I will see what advice he has for me.

As for the fat loss, I am definitely seeing results... I'm just a very demanding person (of myself). The thing about the cardio is how active I already am with IFC sports and now army drills. I really wanted to figure out how to deal with the shin problems before I have to serve this weekend. I don't want to be a pussy who can't run 1/10 of a mile because my shins hurt so much.

I definitely use other forms of cardio, but I really need to get my running down, ya know what I mean? You can't exactly make excuses in basic.

I guess I'm going to have to up the morning cardio... couldn't hurt, I just don't want to overtrain and have results go down relative to how much I put into it.

Time to go and down a meal! P.S. I stopped taking the clen today and I love to have my hands not shake all the time again.