Sometimes lots of exercise is NOT your friend: How to fix your energy levels, while maintaining your physique.

So basically, I'm seeing these threads about how shitty people feel, even though they're lifting or doing other exercises multiple times per week, while eating correctly, and taking supplements...

The one guy says he has a family, and is constantly on the run...

Well here's the thing, just your daily life activities can be so exhausting, that to compound that with doing intensive exercises even 3 times per week, is going to kill you. As you get older, it takes LONGER to recoup from workouts, sometimes as much as 3-5 days after one workout.

The thing to do, is to plan your workouts around a time frame when you're not going to have shit loads of stuff to do for the next few days, since having to do all that stuff, never allows you the famous 'rest day', which when you get older, needs to be multiple rest days.

What you need to do is take a break until you're feeling back to nearly 100%, your body will let you know, and when you get back into working out, go easy.

A more well rounded set of exercises for the active 'dad' are body weight exercises, that build up your entire core, from your abs, to your chest, to your triceps.

Even these exercises though, will just drain the hell out of you if you don't do them correctly, aren't eating right, don't ever have a rest day, and are constantly on the go.

Remember this as well, you don't start losing your strength and your gains for 2 WEEKS, so if you've been actively working out multiple times per week, you can take a 2 week break if it's needed, while maintaining the majority of your gains, and your physique.

If you have to take a 1 month break even, you'll still maintain quite a bit of your physique, but it will take another 2-3 weeks to get back what you lost, which is a small price to pay if you get them back, plus you're feeling 'good' again.

Just my 2 cents.