Many people during fitness, especially trainers aiming for muscle growth, will focus overwhelmingly on their muscles and everything is geared towards building muscle, which of course cannot be said to be wrong.
If you only know about muscle fatigue and recovery, how to train these superficial things, then you will meet a lot of bumping points in the process of fitness training, because in this you ignore another important factor in muscle building, which is the nervous system.
The nervous system is a complex mechanism that has an impact not only on your training, but also on your recovery, rest and so on, so its importance cannot be overstated.
Today we will analyse the characteristics of the nervous system from a training point of view and how you should do it, how to make it better adapted to training, so as to help you better grasp your training.
1. The impact of high intensity and high frequency training on the nervous system
Simply put, it is difficult for the nervous system to adapt to high intensity and high frequency training, in terms of your muscle building training or any training mode, if you want to make progress, it is only from: Training frequency, training intensity, training volume to change.
Even if you train at a very low frequency, if you train at a very high intensity, or at a very low intensity, but you train at a very high frequency, it is not sustainable and will bring about a high accumulation of fatigue on your nervous system.
A simple example: Many people who train their legs only once a week may get so tired that they feel they cannot sustain their training for the next few days, or if you train every day to develop a habit, even if it is easy, some people may not be able to do it, partly because they are lazy, partly because they did it the first few days, but the more you do it, the more fatigue builds up in your nervous system, which amplifies the idea of giving up.
So for the average fitness enthusiast, you must follow the principle of gradual training, remember not to rush, slowly increase the intensity and frequency of your training, too much haste will only bring the opposite effect.
2. The speed of neurological recovery is unpredictable
For muscle fatigue recovery we can make a clear judgement from the way our body feels, but for the nervous system, this is not the case.
I don't know if you've ever felt like you're in the same condition as usual during a training session, but then suddenly your performance drops off during a training session, but this could be due to the nervous system not recovering sufficiently.
And if you have experienced a particularly intense training session and the accumulation of high intensity stimuli over a long period of time, it may take longer for the nervous system to recover, not only in relation to your training routine, but also in relation to diet, rest and stress.
For example, if it is your first exposure to white wine and you drink a lot of it during a dinner party until you vomit, then, not surprisingly, you will probably not be exposed to white wine again for most of the next six months, and as soon as you smell it you will instantly remember the scene and the discomfort, which may be accompanied by nausea and the desire to vomit.
This is why we need to pay more attention to neurological recovery, not only to know if your muscles have recovered, but also to monitor your mental and training state at all times during training, your entire training weight change curve, and to make adjustments in real time, and if there is a decline, it is okay to take a few more days off.
3. Memory function of the nervous system
We have all heard of muscle memory, but not in the literal sense that muscles can remember movements, and as we repeat a movement or technique, our nervous system will remember it, and the simpler the movement, the longer you practice it, the more profound the memory will be for the nervous system.
For example, if you have learned to walk since you were a child, and you can't walk for a while because of an injury, you will be able to walk freely after rehabilitation, for example, if you have mastered the squat and have been practicing it for a year, you will not need to relearn the movement when you pick up the squat again after a year.
The more complex things are, the easier they will be to forget. This will be very well reflected in the training of musical instruments, practice instrumental music friends should know, in the beginning to repeat the practice scale, practice a period of time even if you are very familiar with it, but put down a period of time without practice, and then pick up the time will be particularly easy to rusty.
This is also true for simple squats and hard pulls, which are easy to master and relatively simple, and you will probably never forget them.
Therefore, for training, the more difficult the movement, the better we want to master it. In addition to working hard to increase the frequency of training, the time between training should not be too long, while if some very simple work, not so important movements can be reduced.
This is why there are many training patterns or training systems that are not suitable for the average person at first, because some of the movements themselves have a threshold that requires a lot of time to practice.
4. Neurological stress does not only come from training
Unlike the muscles, which are not really stressed by everyday life apart from training, the nervous system is subject to a wide variety of stressors, of which training is only one.
So it's hard to be interested in training when you're at work or in a bad relationship, even when you have time to train, so you have to manage your emotions and balance the points of life and training, to be a good trainer and to discover your maximum potential you have to understand this.
Finally, to summarise the nervous system, you may understand why it is so important. The nervous system is the system in the body that plays a leading role in the regulation of physiological functions.
It is mainly composed of nerve tissue and is divided into two main parts: The central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. In particular, the main function of the central nervous system is to transmit, store and process information, to produce various mental activities and to govern and control all the behaviour of the animal.
