How do you prevent Central Nervous Injury?

[prospa7]

First of all, does CNS injury exist? Second, what are measures to fight this problem?

[Mindi912]

First of all, does CNS injury exist? Second, what are measures to fight this problem?


CNS Injury does definitely exist however it's not like where you tear a muscle so it's harder to recognise per se.

CNS Injury is from over training - there are two types of over-training, muscle over-training which is easy to fix and CNS burnout which is a little more difficult to correct.

CNS burnout comes from overtraining - training to failure all the time and not giving yourself adequate rest periods would be the example in this case.

When you train to failure you nervous system has to work so much harder to keep the weights up. You're making your motor-neurons work harder than they should. People believe that you only recruit all your muscle fibres if you train to failure, this is incorrect however. Therefore you never need to train to failure all the time.

[jaim91]

Mindi is right, but you can injure your CNS and/or fatigue it.

To prevent it, make sure you take deloading weeks, cycle OFF fat burners, take antioxidants and protect your immune system

[Mindi912]

Mindi is right, but you can injure your CNS and/or fatigue it.

To prevent it, make sure you take deloading weeks, cycle OFF fat burners, take antioxidants and protect your immune system

thanks Jaim forgot to add about deloading :)

[TheGr8S1]

switching exercises, i don't think most bodybuilders approach CNS fatigue anyway.

[prospa7]

switching exercises, i don't think most bodybuilders approach CNS fatigue anyway.

yeah, that's cuz steroids help them recover faster from anything...including CNS injuries

[Mindi912]

switching exercises, i don't think most bodybuilders approach CNS fatigue anyway.

I think more bb'ers approach CNS fatigue with realising it.

[Iceman1800]

switching exercises, i don't think most bodybuilders approach CNS fatigue anyway.

probably right on this. its usually powerlifters and strongmen that train to such a near max that they risk cns overload. changing max effort exercises every week or so helps to combat this. I do think that even bb'ers can benefit from switcihg stuff around more though.

[Keltron]

Doesn't it weaken your immune system as well when your CNS has been exhausted?

When I was doing full body workouts full of heavy compound workouts like squats and deadlifts in the same day, I could definitely feel the fatigue. It's hard to explain but you can totally tell when your CNS is exhausted.

But when someone says the CNS is injured, that sounds like there was some sort of trauma to the brain or spinal cord. I don't you can "injure" either of them by overtraining... Just take all the basic precations that go w/lifting... proper sleep, proper post workout recovery, etc etc.

[TheGr8S1]

yeah, that's cuz steroids help them recover faster from anything...including CNS injuries

Even Natural guys probably don't. Most don't train using 90% of max reps and the frequency for a certain muscle group normally is low so they don't have to worry about CNS fatigue too much. But if you are afraid of a CNS you need longer rest then for muscles