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04-01-08 10:40 PM - Post#427409
The CNS behaves much like your muscles. The tension and stress of heavy lifting and hard workouts fatigues it.
Muscles can recover from some of the hardest workouts in 48 hours, yet Mike Mentzer had guys needing a week or longer between workouts. That was to allow the CNS to recover (it's slow and for some of us terribly so).
One thing I found out the hard way a couple of years ago is that, just like muscles, the CNS needs to warm up for heavy lifting. I'd come in to a morning workout and the first heavy exercise was just a bust. My trainer switched the order around and put some modest ab exercise in first before the big lift and by the time of the heavy work I could get the intensity needed.
You can see the same effect when the first set seems really heavy but by the second it seems much easier.
Not a technical dissertation on the thing, but I hope that helps.
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