How does one "fatigue" the central nervous system?
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Ok, I meant that in a colloquial way. What I meant was CNS fatigue.Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe
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How does one "fatigue" the central nervous system?
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Run a marathon?
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Why don't you ask Baker as he was the one who told me about it in one of his programs? Quote - "Deadlifts should use straps on the 5s and 3s week to save the CNS." Why not ask him how to "save" the CNS?
I was going to quote out of Wikipedia in my earlier post - "Central nervous system fatigue, or central fatigue, is a form of fatigue that is associated with changes in the synaptic concentration of neurotransmitters within the central nervous system (CNS; including the brain and spinal cord) which affects exercise performance and muscle function..." but who knows who wrote that.
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Central nervous system fatigue - Wikipedia
Meant to point out that this article discusses applicability to endurance sports, not strength training. I assume the fatigue of running a marathon is different from the fatigue accumulated over weeks of lifting progressively heavier weights?
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Since we deal with strength training here, again I ask: how does one "fatigue" the central nervous system?
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In all seriousness, since you only go into detail about neuromuscular system in the Power Clean section of SS, I'm assuming your argument is that because the reps are done slowly in tempo and with submaximal weights in this method, the reduced power output cannot "fatigue" the CNS.
So, 10 sets of 20 power cleans in a row followed by a kettlebell swing to your partner's face. Aka CrossFit.
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You make my point: that is not strength training.
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