Usually I do my heavy lower body day on Mondays, and allow my CNS to recover and do my heavy upper body day on Wednesdays.
This usually has allowed me to go all out on Wednesdays but today was different. Before lifting, during class I felt sleepy,tired,drained but instead of listening to my body, I decided to try and take an energy drink (monster) and go lift anyways since I've always been able to on Wednesdays with no problems. I had a shitty workout to say the least.
Now I'm mostly certain it's my CNS that has not fully recovered, but I wanted to make sure it's not my muscles that have not fully recovered.
Signs that point to CNS not being recovered are:
- Felt tired during class before
- Monster energy drink didn't do jack shit to me
- Although I had 48 hours of rest, Monday I did ME jump session (low volume) with heavy lower body lifting (squats + BSS) all while on caffeine <--- This was my first monday where I did ME jump session before lifting, therefore a more CNS taxing Monday than usual.
- Last time I did upper body workout was a whole 7 days ago (last Wed)
Signs that point to muscles not being recovered are:
- I know having DOMS or not is not an accurate indication of whether or not you're recovered, and although my upper DOMS went away by Sunday, I did a RIDICULOUS amount of upper body volume (compound + isos) last Wednesday. Usually I just do the main compounds, but I added supplementary compounds + tons of isos (wanted to experiment with how much volume I should do for a little hypertrophy)
I'm not 100% sure of my bad workout today because there are 2 new things that happened this past week. First time doing a jump session prior to lower body lifting on Monday + First time doing ridiculous amounts of volume on the previous upper lifting day.
I just want to make sure what's the cause so I can make the necessary changes and not waste workouts anymore.
