CNS recovery............

[redsamurai]

Does anyone have any advice for when you're doing an intense period of lifting without AAS, what is good for CNS recovery? I want to do a 6-8 week powerlifting program, but natural on this one. Anything natural out there that helps "specifically" with this?

 

[samoth]

Do you do heavy deads on a weekly basis? Look into the exercises that really tax your CNS and switch them up for different lifts. If you're doing deads for ME lifts every week, change it to CSGMs or some other variations. Try and switch up your ME lifts every week with different variations to avoid overtaxing your CNS. Make sure you're getting a lot of quality sleep and calories.

Tate has done a number of articles on conjugated periodization and lift variations to keep your CNS healthy.

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

Buy starting strength and practical programming. You're a ''lover of knowledge''. Both of those books will have info you want/need now and in the future. I'm going to bet the training board will give you more quality responses than here.

 

[Nelson Montana]

First and formost -- sleep. Avoid heavy lifts that max out before 10 reps. Don't run or jog.

Bacoba and Ginsings are good "nerve tonic" herbs. Aswagahnda and avenacosides (Both in UNLEASHED ) are used to tonify the nervous system. Extra B12 and zinc are good too, but don't take over 50 mgs of zinc a day.

 

[mobro]

I had a Dr. prescibed B12 inj to repair a stressed or slightly piched nerve in my back. Inj b12 is cheap on vet supply sites, smells like a horses ass though.

 

[redsamurai]

Avoid heavy lifts that max out before 10 reps.

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well that's the whole point of a PL program. Yeah, you're not supposed to do it all year round.........but for short periods of time you're supposed to do lifts in the 1-4 rep range because those stimulate the most GH secretion and therefore the most fiber recruitment. Doig a lift that maxes out at 12 reps is fine for a certain duration...........but it doens't tax your CNS like a low rep lift, and that's what I"m looking for is that CNS explosion. Downfall is obviously a degradation of your CNS, but that's why I"m asking for help.

 

[lmm23]

Apart from the good advice above, I find in terms of recovery that contrast showers are good on the morning after heavy lifting. I do 3 mins as hots as I can take, followed by 45 secs as cold as possible, and repeat that 3 times, and finish with hot.

Also, I find overdoing any type of stimulant when you're doing heavy lifting can cause serious fatigue in the long run. I usually use my eyelids as the measure of how far I am pushing it: i.e. if they're twitching, I back off.

 

[Thunderclap47]

Also, I find overdoing any type of stimulant when you're doing heavy lifting can cause serious fatigue in the long run. I usually use my eyelids as the measure of how far I am pushing it: i.e. if they're twitching, I back off.

Same goes in the bedroom. If my johnson starts twitching....I back off.lol

 

[lmm23]

Ain't that the truth!