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I lift heavy until I'm pretty close to being over trained. Sometimes it takes 3 months and other times it's more towards 4. I'm actually in a midst of one of those times now.Originally Posted by cguy610
Do you guys take time off from lifting heavy? I mean like, do you lift heavy for like 3 months straight and then take a couple weeks off. Or do you just lift heavy all the time?
About a week ago after doing front squat for triples I got a mysterious cold and and in the preceding days I felt a lot slower mentally and just had less energy overall. My appatetie went off the charts as well. Also, during training my eyelids start to twitch. As funny as it sounds, this is one of the signs of an overloaded CNS.
During these times I usually do not train 2 days in a row and after squat and deadlift days I may take 2 days off.
The interesting thing is that until you hit 100% completely over trained you will still keep increasing in your lifts. I did deads yesterday and on my last set I felt crazy fast. Until you hit "overt trained", you're technically still peaking.
There are def set/rep schemes that will push you over the edge though. In my experience it's heavy doubles and triples. I won't do any exercised for doubles or triples until I feel that my CNS has recovered sufficiently.