Thread: Do you guys ever feel like you cant do as much as u did one day?

Hmm well, you maxed out the night before and went to failure, and then less than 24 hours later you benched again? This is probably why you couldnt bench as much. The lesson is, dont bench so often.

Of course, I feel like you did every now and then.

You can lift as great as you have recovered.
Good training performances depend on fine balances between previous session's intensity(or volume) and body's due rest afterward.

Nobody can know exactly how hard one needs to train and how much rest one needs without trial and error.

You'll do fine as long as you know there's something out there you should know better.( IMO, in this case CNS fatigue and muscle recovery)

And I think your improvement is great.
Keep pumping!!

"Despite the lack of evidence, neural fatigue exists and is a big factor in training."

— Eric Cressey

Imagine you deadlift 500 pounds for the first time and it's a complete grinder. You call it a day and leave the gym right after the lift. The following day, you wake up and have absolutely no muscle soreness. Just for shits and giggles, you go in and decide to test your 1RM deadlift again — because we all know you could bench heavy EVERY DAY when you were a beginner, right?

During your warm-up, you take 405 for a single and it feels painfully slow. 455 is a grinder - just like 500 was the day before. There's no way that you've got 500 in you on Day 2. What gives?

"Despite the lack of evidence, neural fatigue exists and is a big factor in training."

— Eric Cressey

Imagine you deadlift 500 pounds for the first time and it's a complete grinder. You call it a day and leave the gym right after the lift. The following day, you wake up and have absolutely no muscle soreness. Just for shits and giggles, you go in and decide to test your 1RM deadlift again — because we all know you could bench heavy EVERY DAY when you were a beginner, right?

During your warm-up, you take 405 for a single and it feels painfully slow. 455 is a grinder - just like 500 was the day before. There's no way that you've got 500 in you on Day 2. What gives?

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do...12922&pageNo=0

thanks for the advice, however its not like i benched the last night i just attempted 185 got it up, and then tried 190 and coodnt get it back up, that was 2 reps of bench because i knew the next day was my chest day so i didnt wanna i guess "waste a workout" but yeah, i think it did have a factor! in terms of i strained to try and get the 190 up

Originally Posted by fufu

"Despite the lack of evidence, neural fatigue exists and is a big factor in training."

— Eric Cressey

Imagine you deadlift 500 pounds for the first time and it's a complete grinder. You call it a day and leave the gym right after the lift. The following day, you wake up and have absolutely no muscle soreness. Just for shits and giggles, you go in and decide to test your 1RM deadlift again — because we all know you could bench heavy EVERY DAY when you were a beginner, right?

During your warm-up, you take 405 for a single and it feels painfully slow. 455 is a grinder - just like 500 was the day before. There's no way that you've got 500 in you on Day 2. What gives?

"Despite the lack of evidence, neural fatigue exists and is a big factor in training."

— Eric Cressey

Imagine you deadlift 500 pounds for the first time and it's a complete grinder. You call it a day and leave the gym right after the lift. The following day, you wake up and have absolutely no muscle soreness. Just for shits and giggles, you go in and decide to test your 1RM deadlift again — because we all know you could bench heavy EVERY DAY when you were a beginner, right?

During your warm-up, you take 405 for a single and it feels painfully slow. 455 is a grinder - just like 500 was the day before. There's no way that you've got 500 in you on Day 2. What gives?

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do...12922&pageNo=0