The Role Of The CNS In Training

Hot take

Your CNS isn’t that important

And the rules you’ve been told govern you are a lie

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Alright so straight up it may not exactly be that your CNS isn’t important

But

It’s an effect point, not a cause point

Meaning it’s a response to what happens, it is not WHAT happens

And here’s what i mean

The CNS, your muscles, your tendons, your chemical releases, etc etc etc

Are not the driving force

Meaning they are not what dictates what you do

They respond to what you DECIDE to do

Get the difference?

So that means they are effect points

And you are the cause point

And effect points can be trained or overridden

By a cause point

Which means, quite obviously, that you determine how your CNS shows up

And how trained it is. How prepared it is.

So it’s just a different story

It isn’t that you have to fit within the guidelines of your CNS

It’s that your CNS has to fit within the guidelines of you

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Maybe it doesn’t make any sense to you, but it’s an important distinction for me

Reason being that when i hear things like

My CNS is trashed

I’m just looking for the next dopamine hit

The ankle just gave out on me…

It’s positioning “you” to be at effect instead of at cause

Like you don’t control the CNS, it controls you.

You don’t control the dopamine, it controls you

You don’t control your ankle, it controls you

So yeah, i think most of this is a lie because it’s an incomplete story

Like you don’t necessarily have to be at effect of your system

Your system can be at effect of you

And i suppose that’s really what i view my training to be

Getting myself to the point i discover, further and further, that truth

That i am not at effect of my system, it is at effect of me

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And i don’t want that to get too out in the weeds so practically that’s like

Slow lower deep pushup - i can decide to keep going, and my system responds to that

First time it might be 2 minutes, next it might be 4:30, then it might be 5 minutes with weight added, etc

But eventually it can be getting to the point that on some gradient level, it only stops when i decide it stops

And maybe the joint moves for right now are a better picture of that

Being able to do 500 in a row without failing, even when trying to fail, while 4-5 years ago it was very very difficult to do 75 without stopping

It’s like that process of learning that your system responds to you

You do not have to respond to it

And it’s just giving control back man

Cause it’s fun for me to not have to be like can’t do it my CNS is trashed

Like nah - i can cultivate what it takes to do it, so lets go do it

Freedom instead of restriction

And it’s fine if it doesn’t make sense or you don’t believe me

That’s just my current positioning and what I’ve found to be most true

(And yeah, you can keep all your CNS research papers - cause they haven’t studied me or my dawgs)

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