Managing CNS fatigue on the deadlift
Hi Coach Santana,
I would have put this in the recovery forum in the past, so I hope this is the right place to post it. Sometimes after heavy deadlifts lately my CNS is fried (which I used to think wasn’t a thing). So far this only lasts for a day or two, but it’s bad enough to change my personality (I’m much jumpier and more anxious the next day) and interfere with my sleep. Aside from sleeping as much as I can and eating like a horse, I’m not sure what else I can do to manage it. So my questions are:
1. Is this a common experience or is it something peculiar to my physiology?
2. What actually causes this? CNS fatigue seems like a really vague explanation.
3. Are there any special steps that can be taken to manage it?
I want to clarify, it’s not as if deadlifts are brutally hard on the day (at least, not harder than they should be), the weirdness starts when I wake up the day after.
Thanks in advance for any insight you might have.