But the whole system that we're talking about can be worked to the extent that even if a muscle group like the biceps or the back is being allowed to rest while you're training legs and other muscle groups that your whole neuromuscular system needs rest . How does one determine whether or not your entire body needs complete rest or , or low level active rest or exercise of a different kind ? Yeah .
Because obviously the nervous system and the way it interacts with the neuromuscular system is the site of all the action here or at least a lot of the action and the nervous system can in fact become fatigued , you know , that has a great capacity . But the whole system that we're talking about can be worked to the extent that even if a muscle group like the biceps or the back is being allowed to rest while you're training legs and other muscle groups that your whole neuromuscular system needs rest . How does one determine whether or not your entire body needs complete rest or , or low level active rest or exercise of a different kind ?
So um those are actually some markers that we like a lot . If muscle damage is uh the thing we're concerned with , if we are more concerned with things like total training volume , systemic overload , then we may turn to something more like sleep . There's a lot of information we can actually get glain from changes in sleep , um behavior and function .
The last one I would add , there is simply motivation . So if , if you're really training hard and you like training hard and you just like cannot force yourself to go anymore , that and of itself can be a good indication of it's maybe not the day , maybe not the week . Um With all of these things , you want to be careful about overreacting to a single day measure .
So if I can like , can we get in , can we go real light ? Let's go to six out of 10 R pe so relative perceived exertion , um Maybe we'll reduce the range of motion , maybe we'll make it a little bit easier , maybe go to machines or instead of going a squat , we'll just do you know , uh leg extensions , something like that . But I wanna still get enough volume in there that will keep you on target .
