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[Kleen]

He just calls it Neural Charge Training to give it a name.


I skimmed over the article.

There is no magic here, but if you don't make it seem like there is, few people will read the article.

I can find easily how he sets up a weekly "split" here but this is just the typical way one should / would train with the exercises he lists there to improve explosiveness: avoid metabolic and cardiovascular fatigue so the efforts and performance a maximal. This is just making use of specificity of training.

100m sprinter perform maximum efforts over short distances and train that way.

Marathon runners do the opposite and generally train that way.

There is no charging up of the nervous system (whatever that means) at work here

He note that this training does the following - I'll comment after a dash on each

• Increases insulin sensitivity - exercise doest this generally
• Stimulates the release of anabolic hormones - resistance exercise does this generally.
• Loads more nutrients into the muscle cell - exercise does this generally
• Jumpstarts recovery - perhaps he's referring to the plazma he recommends, but this is a generic statement. Training creates inroads to / slows recovery from any previous workout, but it's also was actually creates the entire "recovery" process in the first place. You could also say that a knife wound jumpstarts wound healing b/c you'd not have wound healing with a wound.
• Enhances work capacity - Training adaptation
• Stimulates further growth - THIS is what is / could be of use here.

On the last point: If this kind of power training means lifting heavier loads when training for hypertrophy (which 3-5 reps will not typically do very well), then there's something to say here. Again, you can't just ADD this extra training in on top of a given regimen and have it "jumpstart" recovery as it will contribute to total training load.

The key to using power movements if one wanted to would be to balance overall training volume and, frankly, probably to periodize them in (as many BB'ers do with periods of powerlifting).

• Prepares the body for the next workout - Generic and pretty much meaningless statement, unless he means that the power training adaptations will carry over to the bodybuilding workouts .




You'd need to balance training load for sure. I'd also MEASURE your speed in some objective way to see if there is an effect. (And frankly is SPEED is what you want, I'd training for specifically whatever that means to you as far as your sense of reaction time (do your really mean reaction time per se?) or what have you.

But yes, if you don't use it, you lose it, so stopping power training will generally mean a loss of whatever power adaptations were elicited by the previous training.

-S

Makes sense and yeah that list he put in there is pretty generic for what most exercise can do. The exercises I did were body weight plyomentrics, so I typically measured via distance covered or height. Like Jump from the same place and track distance, or height jumped. Same with a plyo push up when I had someone else watching. So that was how I "measured" the speed or explosiveness when I did them before.

Part of where the recommendation came from his "Train for your Neuro type" articles. They theorized different Neuro types have different ideal approaches to programming their training. Basically they compared the different physiological characteristics of the neuro / personality types, and what types of training would work better with that type of physiology. By neuro types they are comparing levels of things like high or low Dopamine, Acetylcholine, and or GABA. Things like this. They explain how those factors effect our behavior and personality traits or training preferences and have you use those traits to help you figure out where you fit in the mix.

Anyway in one of the articles he mentions that for some due to the physiology needed more frequent stimulation of the CNS to keep it from degrading due to inactivity while others with different levels of some of those markers do not need that type of frequency to keep their CNS operating at a high level. So this is what that article recommended to do to keep the frequency which for those specific people was supposed to help keep their CNS performing more efficiently.

I think I misconstrued what he was saying to say that it actually charged the CNS, rather than keeping it at it's most efficient level via the increased frequency but lower intensity and volume so it isn't creating a major inroad to recovery. Of course with a name like Neural Charge workout you can see how I misconstrued it...

I would be curious on your thoughts on what they classified at Neuro Types and the types of training recommended. Here is a link to the first article that outlines it a bit if you are interested in seeing what they are talking about and it it has any merit in your opinion.
https://www.t-nation.com/workouts/the-ne...e-workouts

I imagine if I really want to work to maintain speed and explosiveness maybe I can just do some plyometrics for that body part in my warm up which would also double as activation / CNS priming movements. That would probably make much more sense in this situation than a separate workout now that I have reviewed it and the article that referred me to it in the first place.

Thanks for helping me sort that out!!!