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Originally Posted by L'ilJ
Hey Diane. Sounds like you're trying to do too much! If I were you, I would keep doing your weights workouts and cut out the HIIT / hill sprints. Just sub some nice EASY walking to burn some extra calories where you feel up to it. Trying to do uber weights workouts, dieting, HIIT, family stuff can add up to just too damn much. Plus, you have 5x the number of kids I do and I'm friggin exhausted!
Oh, do you ever use bands for assisted chins? I found they were really helpful in helping me work up to unassisted chins. And another thing, do you supplement w/Magnesium at all? I take it at night and it makes me sleepy like the dead.
Rock on...
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Amen to what the Magnesium pusher sez.... seriously, Diane, if you do TOO much it just doesn't work. Whether that's due to compliance, half-assing it in the gym, or cortisol/stress hormone overload I'll leave to the experts to figure out. I can only judge based on my own experience (don'tcha hate anecdotal evidence?), but doing less has been working like a charm for me.
Just a thought...FWIW.
Oh, and you have five kids?!?!
Damn. I have four stepkids--but only once a quarter--and even that part-time thing can be difficult as far as juggling stuff goes.