How-To Deal with CNS Fatigue 

wow a new video, see yall in 3 months xD

Did Jordan finally remember the RU-vid channel password?

"Some days it do be like that." on a BBM t-shirt when?

Great talk. CNS fatigue is such a nebulous concept that's never explained but often bandied about

Such great content, thank you guys

Looking big💪great video.

Thank you, that was badass info, especially at the end, rest & don't worry about it

I fried my CNS once, in EVOO with a touch of garlic. You guys look strong and healthy, it is so much easier to follow advice from people that walk the talk.

Good to see the lads back on camera together! Cheers for the nuance 😍

I kinda guessed how this one would go-I’m learning!

NCBI has a paper describing an experiment in which an electrical stimulation device-made by the experimenters, not an off-the-shelf item-to command muscles to contract. They compared those results with the person’s maximum contraction ability. The electrical system caused muscle contraction equal to the natural signal. The point, from my point of view/interest, is that the device never gets old, never stops working at random. Getting the signals in to the correct muscles at the correct time is a difficult problem. That was many years ago; no one would be allowed to do that experiment now!

Overtraining and CNS fatigue gave me erectile dysfunction for a bit, be careful out there bois

I think my CNS is fried because my lifts were slowly increasing until recently they have gone down a bit. This happens like every 2-3 months, I lift a bit lighter for a week or so and rest and then things start to move up again

my 2 cents is that in short; don't worry about one session, it just be like that sometimes, if one workout is bad, try to sleep eat and hydrate a bit better over the course of the rest of the day, if you do that and the next session is progressively worse, now is likely a good time to deload, take an unplanned day off, maybe re evaluate the progression of your program, etc. day to day performance fluctuations happen and you should only begin to think there is a problem in need of fixing when it becomes a repeat occurrence.

So im a skinny guys that used to not eat enough, stay up late and is a smoker (ex regular weed user) I recently started going to the gym. I changed my sleep routine to get roughly 7-8 hours of sleep (I wake up at 5 am to get my workout done before work and go to sleep at 9-10 but struggle to fall asleep and to sleep well trough the night so I sometimes get 1-2 hours of sleep after work) I changed my diet and now I eat 3 generous meals/day with the first one before going to gym. The gym program worked out exceptionally well for the first two weeks, ive seen noticeable muscle growth on all the groups, mostly on legs but thats not such a feat since I was very skinny to begin with. I thought things where good because Ive been to gym a bunch of years ago but back then I didnt follow a good sleep and diet routine. Aside from feeling a bit sleepy in the morning after gym things where great. One day when I was driving home (also I usually ride my bike to work, its a 10 km ride, but this time I had to use my car)I felt like a small pain in my shoulder that slowly vent down to my back side and by the time I got home I had difficulties breathing in while walking and felt like something was pressing on the right side of my thorax, more like on the side of the thorax under my armpit. This happened to me before a bunch of times and I never understood what is causing it. For the next 5-6 days the pain gradually stopped but in the second and 3rd day its was pretty bad when I was walking outside or leaning over. Also I had a constant feeling of intense 'stress' in the right part of my head, like you have after a very stressful day but I was constant and It started in the morning even if I had a good rest. All in all I had this sensation of exhaustion or that i was about to cath a cold (idk how to describe it better). Ive been to the doctor with this issue when it first came and he said its intercostal neuralgia but from what ive read about it online it shouldnt trigger out of nowhere like this. Anyway, do you believe this can be triggered by CNS fatigue?

I get CNS fatigue from lifting (snatches and cleans). Some days I sleep for 2 hours after lifting. I am 66 and lift only with a trainer. It seems to happen when I am increasing my weight. Thanks for this video! Ray

I think by far the biggest factor for me and most people is psychological stress from other areas of life.

What do you guys think of heartrate variability as a proxy for daily/weekly training capacity?

That was a great video! It was kind of something I wondered about for quite some time now. Take home message from the video - don't worry too much about performance in the context of training...It do be like that sometimes.

I think there is an Austin Baraki meme that would fit this.

I relate more with first opinion

Question any minerals or supplements you can recommend I’m looking at taking high doses of liquid vitamin D. As of today I had Covid and I’m having shaking in brain issues. I’m healthy no issues I do not take any medication. I have no heart health issues and none of and I’m 40 years old, that’s awful. PS this is my third time getting Co vid

You two look great. How would you recover from a being in a sustained flight or fight state for several weeks? Top tips? I’m just coming out of a very stressful period (toxic workplace), my training, nutrition and sleep has suffered so I would like to get back on normal form as quickly and safely as possible.

I have a big problem with CNS fatigue. I am a late novice, bordering on intermediate lifter. In the past, I've gone into full CNS overtraining from doing heavy deadlifts every week. I've recently moved 3 of my 6 weekly barbell row sets to sundays, after squats, and added some bicep work and some heavy db exercises I hadn't done in a while (partial lateral raises, rear raises) after the first three on wednesdays. I think it's too much, though my muscles can keep up, and I have inarguable and severe symptoms. The past few nights, though I'm always very tired, it's taken me about 2 hours to fall asleep, and then I wake up about 4 ½ hours later (always around 5:30 AM) and can't fall back asleep for another 2½-3 hours. I spend as much as 14 hours of the day in bed and only get around 7 hours of sleep. I genuinely need 10 or more each night. I work hard and I'm a young lifter who was inactive before he started lifting about 21 months ago. Yesterday was that row and bicep day and despite my poor sleep the night before, I still performed very well. I did feel it in my nerves somewhat, but I figured it was at an okay level. Yet, I had that horrible experience hardly sleeping. I urgently need to figure out how, other than just relaxing, taking a break from training, and lowering my stress, I can stop spending 35 hours or more/week trying to fall asleep. I can't make any gains like this and I can't even live life like this.

The production value is so better than it was in 2018.

FINALLY new upload. watching vids on repeat lately to get sufficiently indoctrinated by the Barbell Medicine church of holy nuance and gains

Hi guys So I started going back to the gym last may (2022) and I’ve been going to the gym consistently 5-6 times a week always training to failure. The past 2 months I’ve been struggling with insomnia fatigue and joint pain. What would you guys suggest to do? The last 3 weeks I’ve been trying to deload but I still struggle with sleep and fatigue issues.

I don't actually agree When everything is dialed in perfectly (sleep, hydration, active recovery, nutrition, even mental health) its important to know how to manage CNS fatigue which will appear despite all the rest

OMG those are some really specific scheduling times. My meal was at like 6:30 and I didn't get to start my workout till 10pm. Then again I have two children under 5. I do what I can when I can. Can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. :)

As a Strongman, my CNS definitely gets fried 😆

damm...i thought BBM was dead

My CNS got fried just from watching this video gotta deload

What kind of strategies do you use to avoid accumulating to much training fatigue?

How to gauge your CNS fatigue?? By the percentage of what you can do that you normally do, or midweek or the end of the week compare it to the percentage of what you lifted the first day of the week. If you can't do it, you have NOT recovered, meaning there is some waste or nervous fatigue there. That doesn't mean you cant lift, just that your muscles haven't recovered... that's how I manage it... and like the doctors say here, I don't think in terms of CNS fatigue, but how strong or what percentages I can do that one day, which is included as a consideration in the Texas PROGAM Rip and other designed, days to try to lift more, and the next session a bit less to recover but keep training.

What books do you recommend? I already have books from dr. Aaron H., Dr. Stuart Mcgill

Does it matter if you CNS is fried or not? If yes the what are you going to do, not train?

How to deal with cns I'm still waiting on an answer

if you cant predict CNS fatigue based off of the inputs you discussed then how can it be measured? doesn't sound very scientific in the hard science sense

Barbell medicine, what happens if you eat every 2 hours vs 3 plus hours (for amino acid levels to drop)? Obviously you will still have protein synthesis’s, but how does that affect muscle growth? how much less muscle gained over time?

i get tired after one set…

Awwww yeah, hit me wit' dat nuance!

What kind of watch is Baraki wearing? Something Swiss? Looks real nice.

What about 8 pints of beer ?

Why is it that Austin is a year older than me but looks like an actual grown up?

I'm still waiting for an answer to how to deal with cns fatigue lol. False advertisement for clicks

6:10 Paraphrasing: "Breaking things down into CNS fatigue and peripheral fatigue is how humans try to understand things, it's reductionism" and then instead of breaking it down further to explain how just breaking into 2 components is reductionism and not suitable enough for explaining fatigue, he abstracts it into a single component "it's an experience". Basically this genius tried to say we shouldn't be reductionists while applying an even bigger degree of reductionism 🤡

Jesus there's too much hench in that room

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