How should people think about systemic damage and recovery ? 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 .
Honestly , I'm looking at more than five days . Um I'm gonna pull back from that and think about what phase of training we're in . What part of the year we're in typically with our athletes are in season , preseason , postseason off-season , et cetera to make our decisions about what we're going to do about it .
But I wanna still get enough volume in there that will keep you on target . And again , even going at 50% not , not to high repetition , you know , 50% for a set of 10 , 3 sets , just get a nice blood flow in there , get it in , get it out , aid in recovery and then move on and come back the next day . That's probably what I would do rather than canning the entire session .
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 .
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 .
