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EricT · 04-07-2008, 04:29 PM

Yeah. If you look at Madcows original post, he points out, as I reiterated that neural adaptations are a good thing if you want to enhance your ability to make hypertrophy gains. But then he goes on to say he didn't mean you have to do peak strength training and singles and all of that.

So the question is why not do that? Why would a person feel compelled to make that qualification? I don't know why he made it but a lot of people don't want to be jumped all over with people talking about injuries, and CNS fatigue and all this other stuff.

You have to know how to use it and it is best to seek out as much info on how to approach it from people who actually use it. But one of the biggest problems in training is making assumptions about it instead of basing things on what actually happens to you or doesn't happen to you. And you can't know that unless your willing to experiment a bit.

It began to dawn on me a while back that we spend a lot of time talking about how strength is related to hypertrophy but it is always approached from a hypertrophy standpoint. In the end, if you say, work on the strenght gains from a "neural" standpoint then why are you talking about 5x5's or anything of that nature? It's certainly not the best way to approach that even with the "intensity" day which is still based on the assumption that the best way to gain strength is throught "volume" and then you test that with weight.

A deload will be different for different people. From the standpoint of "intensity" that is certainly a part of it. But it depends on programming and your training status how much volume you do and the kind of intensity you do.

Getting into the question of fatigue is really the nuts and bolts of the whole thing.

When your using less complicated programming with everything being of much the same character a delaod is pretty easy. Basically you just do less of what you do most of. For an intermediate using volume training approaches it's best to keep intensity high or even a bit higher and lower volume. Which begs the whole question of "cns fatigue" with this kind of training.

Needs can be quite different for different individuals but but there is a simple way to disprove the notion of the "serious" CNS affects (other than positive) with this kind of training. Because there is only really ONE way to even guess about CNS overtraining....loss of ability. The fact that so many can follow up a typical "5x5" with a period of not only the same intensity but HIGHER intensity kinda shoots it in the foot. Because the result of "nerual fatigue" if you can even call it fatigue is you get weaker not stronger. No, what is needed is a period of reduced volume.