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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: May 29, 2013, 02:52:56 pm »
Exactly.
I always go to a "daily 1RM" in my volume squatting though. I used it as a primer for the CNS. Obviously it can't be TOO straining because that would supress the CNS instead of potentiating it for the volume work sets.
But working up to a confortable daily 1RM, then unracking a ~1.5x that 1RM for about 10 seconds, then going to my work sets really makes the works sets feel lighter and "achieveable" mentally especially.
The reality is that once you get very efficient both in terms of the mechanics of the squat and in terms of the CNS output in that movement, you're going to need bigger muscles to actually get stronger. It's a cycle in between getting bigger and getting more efficient, and repeating that.
Plus taking some weight off gives you a chance of recovering better, and since we all kinda are obsessed around here with training hard - and not taking enough time to recover well - it kinda MAKES you get to the point of recovering.
I always go to a "daily 1RM" in my volume squatting though. I used it as a primer for the CNS. Obviously it can't be TOO straining because that would supress the CNS instead of potentiating it for the volume work sets.
But working up to a confortable daily 1RM, then unracking a ~1.5x that 1RM for about 10 seconds, then going to my work sets really makes the works sets feel lighter and "achieveable" mentally especially.
The reality is that once you get very efficient both in terms of the mechanics of the squat and in terms of the CNS output in that movement, you're going to need bigger muscles to actually get stronger. It's a cycle in between getting bigger and getting more efficient, and repeating that.
Plus taking some weight off gives you a chance of recovering better, and since we all kinda are obsessed around here with training hard - and not taking enough time to recover well - it kinda MAKES you get to the point of recovering.
