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Originally Posted by Tall  Do you think the brick wall is the body's adaptation to the training method...? Or is it CNS failure due to over training...? |
I asked myself that question and you know I dont know.
Your CNS will take a masive kicking on a HIT program thats for sure, all that 100% effort and negative, rest pause, forced reps ect...
I dont think your realy suposed to adapt to a HIT program, I dont see how its possible to adapt when your going to 100% effort. This is purely bro speculation but I would say that adaption to the routine happens bellow a level of 100% effort the lower the % of effort the more likely that you will adapt to the program your doing and stagnate oposed to CNS burnout.
For assited atheletes the only thing that stops you is CNS burnout there is no recovery time frame anymore realy... (well it dose occur but its so short that you would have to be doing a very high volume program to inpact it in any significant way i think).
So you know that when the gains stop its only down to CNS burnout (maby but unlikely with most programs). or that your body has adapted to the program (most likely) and its time for a change.
Because theres a neurological adaption to exersise as well as building up muscle tissue, so I would guess that after a time the body decides that adding more mass is not working and trys another tactic and makes the neuro conections used in the exersise routine more efficent thus no size is gained you just are better able to perform the routine.