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Originally Posted by karky
the fact that the CNS gets more fatigued with heavy lifting and speed lifting than light lifting, like bw squats, and stuff like that.. does that have anything to do with that when you do speed and heavy work, your recruit more muscle fibers? If you do BW squats, you probobly just need to activate the slow twitch fibers, right? But if you do heavy squats or speed squats, you have to activate all the way up to fast twitch (IIB) fibers. Could that be an explaination as to WHY it is like that? The CNS has to work harder to activate more monitor units and more muscle fibers..
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exactly
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