# Pittspeed Fitness & Nutrition thread update:

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**Created:** [March 2, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittspeed-fitness-nutrition-thread-update/180728 "2006-03-02T22:40:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pittspeed-fitness-nutrition-thread-update/180728/421 "2006-08-15T05:58:34Z")

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> [@Saturday 1-27-07 Winter Meet @ PM:P](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/saturday-1-27-07-winter-meet-pm-p/22727/162):
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> I had no idea about the CNS. Is CNS something that is relatively new? (within 5-8 years)
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> Most of the routines (that I know of) that go for size and strength usually focus around heavy weight, low reps, protein, lots of rest in between sets (one reason the workout takes so long), and long breaks 5-7 days before you train that bodypart again. When I used to train like this, I almost always went to failure, but it took 6 days before I could train that bodypart again.

Yea it is some what new. Everything I ever read and learned from other people always said failure was key and it is good for some HIT and go past failure every once and a while. But I research CNS overtraining and it implies that training till failure is good but to do it every w/o is bad. There are a ton of articles on the web on the subject. I am not 100% “sold” but there studies behind it. Training till failure and espically past failure has yielded decent results for me. So from time to time I stop 2 reps b4 failure.

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