Maps Aesthetic Question
Forgive me if this ends up as a wall of text, I just really need to vent and get some feedback. I don’t have any friends I can talk to about this subject.
Mom of two kids- been weightlifting for 2 years now almost religiously. I started pretty much just to lose some fat and get stronger so I could actually play with my kids and not tire so quickly. I used to run Maps Muscle mommy over and over but I got tired of it and started Aesthetic and Performance.
But now I want to get more…jacked? lol. I push myself hard at the gym, I’m sore the next day every time.
I do two days of aesthetic, one day of MAPS performance, and cardio days twice a week and 15 min of cardio after weight lifting days. I stretch every day, I eat 100g protein every day (body weight 164lbs, bmi 24). I sleep about 7hrs every night.
I can tell I have a lot of solid muscle, but I’d like to grow more of it and lose some fat so that the muscle is actually visible. (Here I am a tall woman with a 55lb row and you can see very little bicep:( all for WHAT?
My problem is I’m just so tIRED. I power through the whole routine of Aesthetics. I am scared to cut back volume because i want to be really strong and fit, and my goal is to be able to handle more. Im just really struggling finding balance and not spending over 2 hrs at the gym. Frankly I struggle being at the gym more than 4 days a week.
Is there any way to reach my goals going to the gym 4 days a week? As in Doing cardio and weightlifting, and getting really strong and fit? Is that only possible to do living in the gym? I hope Im making sense in this post, Im really passionate about the gym. I just can’t dedicate too much time because I feel it takes away from my children. For what it’s worth i really liked muscle mommy, but I wanted to work more on my whole body and not mostly shoulders and legs lol, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
TLDR; struggling balancing weight training and cardio without living in the gym/mothering two toddlers