Tuesday, August 31, 2010

P90x: First day Complete

First day of P90x is finished. Starting out with the Classic or Doubles schedule, I will have to see whether I have time and want to do the doubles in round two four weeks from now.
Did Chest&Back plus AbRipperX today.
Avram is doing it with me, its great to have a buddy so you can push yourself harder.
BRING IT!

Monday, August 30, 2010

Protein Drinks(including Muscle Milk) with heavy metals

Was looking into getting some protein drink mix to take since I'm starting P90x and found this article by Consumer Reports. I'm sure you'll be better off making your own shake/drink every day.
I was just about to order some Muscle Milk but this popped my bubble.
Looks like I need to figure out what I can make that will taste good and be good for me as an energy drink every day.

Here are two quotes from the article:
"We purchased 15 protein powders and drinks mainly in the New York metro area or online and tested multiple samples of each for arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury. The results showed a considerable range, but levels in three products were of particular concern because consuming three servings a day could result in daily exposure to arsenic, cadmium, or lead exceeding the limits proposed by USP."

"Cadmium raises special concern because it accumulates in and can damage the kidneys, the same organs that can be damaged by excessive protein consumption. And it can take 20 years for the body to eliminate even half the cadmium absorbed today."

Here is the article.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Update

The Canon Rebel T1i has held through the two week music academy and is still running strong. I still have a lot to learn but its already producing photos that look much better than any that I could take with the Powershot.
Took just over 1000 photos at Music Academy but haven't uploaded them yet. I also took HD videos of almost all of the performances from camp and have been busy uploading the videos this past week. The pictures should be up soon.

As for computer benchmarking, in this new house we cleaned out a shed in the back and are setting it up to be a worthy bench area. I will be setting up tomorrow and testing graphics cards once again. Looks like I'll do pretesting with my modded GPUs on water then switch over to dry ice in this garage. Possibly can do LN2 in this shed but I'm not sure yet.

An Antec 1200w Power Supply arrived today. This will be the unit to power all of the setups I will be testing from now on. Should be a good one.