Saturday, May 1, 2010

Strong CNS, Weak Muscles

So we're almost 2 weeks into the John Broz protocol.
Today's workout I could feel some of the effects (which were weird).
Workout was:

B Squat: 325 x 5s x 5r
Inc Bench: 187.5 x 3s x 5r
Bicep Curl: 87.5 x 5s x 10r
Reverse Hyper: 4s x 104

The effects from the John Broz levels of volume were weird.
I could feel my central nervous system (CNS) has strengthened, but my muscles were incredibly sore today form this past two weeks frequent squatting.

Being able to somehow lift more than you've ever lifted before while in such terrible shape is a tough thing to convey to a layperson and an arcane concept even to many weight lifters.

The working analogy I use is to look at weight-lifting as similar to horse racing. Just as horce racing depends on two important variables, the jockey and the horse, weightlifting depends on both the CNS and the muscles in much the same way.

A good jockey will convince his horse to run faster.
Similarly, a trained CNS will be able to get the muscles to move more weight.
Whereas the jockey uses a prod, the CNS uses electrical impulses.

Enough of that.

My bicep curls were sloppy, probably because I've been doing so many pushups lately. We'll see if they're better next week.

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