Crashing During Your Neural Priming Day

Yesterday I was doing the eighth week of the 2A program, the neural priming day. . The first set of front squats with the 5 second pause was ok. But as I reached the hole in the second, I immediately felt I wouldn’t lift it. MAs I was pausing down my vision started blurrying and my head turning. I couldn’t see anything and I don’t remember lifting the weight up, just that it felt like an eternity. Once standing it took me at least 5 seconds to rack the bar, my legs were shaking like crazy, a burning sensation was all over my spinning head and I felt all energy had vanished. After I felt pins and needles in my whole body. These sensations quickly disappeared. I took some minutes, dropped the weight by 15% and retried, but the same thing happened, just a bit less violent. So I dropped the workout and just did a bit of easy isolation.

What happened? How can I prevent that? It’s the first time anything like that ever happened in 5 years of lifting

I think it is simply compressing your arteries in the neck, preventing blood from reaching the brain. The long duration under load with the bar resting on your clavicle can do that. Switch for a Zercher squat next time and don’t forget to breath

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Yes it might have been that… yesterday front squat session was good and I was very satisfied with the weight so… Thanks I’ll bear that in mind

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