CNS Rest Period?

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  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    After a high volume session, how long is a "safe" rest period for the CNS?
    Your CNS* never rests. If it did, you'd be dead.
    Even when you're asleep, it's working.
    (Ditto for the PNS.)
    Nerves repolarize almost instantly (in healthy people).
    To give an example: Yesterday was a hard, high volume lifting session.
    Would yoga, rock climbing, or some other non-load bearing workout impact the CNS recovery?
    For weightlifting, you're not supposed to work the same muscles more than once every other day. Having 2 days of rest is good too.
    But the nerves? Doesn't matter.


    * brain & spinal nerves
    Um, it's not about repolarizing the neurons. It's about the adaptations that happen. Those adaptations don't happen instantly.

    And I'm pretty sure I've overtrained via too much volume and CNS under-recovery, because the results feel different from when your muscles are beat up. It's hard to describe but you feel weak/exhausted before you even try to use muscles, and it happens to muscles you didn't even work, like having a super-weak bench press after a squatting session a day or two before.

    That makes sense, also read that it affects sex drive negatively. That sounds truly horrible.

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