What’s the warm up 100 percent of people do?
I made my post more clear above.
I am a little surprised that no one has mentioned this yet, but does anyone else feel that warming up is important just because it gives you some reps to practice your form before you go all out? The extra reps from my warm up sets are where I focus the most on perfecting my form and technique, while my main focus on working sets is really just pushing the damn weight. It is a little bit like jogging a few routes before a football game just to remind your body of the path and the movement, so you can crush it without thinking come game time.
just a thought anyway
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There are no peer reviewed studies on jumping out of an aeroplane from 10000 feet. Should we all start jumping from planes when we go on holiday?
Sometimes you don’t need a peer review when you’ve got this thing called common sense.
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I agree. It gives me some practice reps for a form check. It also gives me a chance to feel my muscles. Maybe I’m really tight one day. Or maybe I’m more fatigued than usual (from the shitty work day) and the warm up will allow me to feel the weight and determine how heavy I can go that day.
Personally, I like to jump on a treadmill for 10 minutes and let the blood flow throughout my entire body. It helps me get in the right mind set. I don’t think I could get up from my desk at work, drive to the gym, and start squatting. I need that time to let my mind get right.
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We’re really going in circles here because many posters still think I’m a warm up atheist. I start harder on what I consider my warm up. Sorry you don’t like this protocol
So you’re warming up too? Was the 80% your start weight? That’s not something I could call a warm up. Sometimes I don’t even go so high during my work sets.
Definitely. The ramp up usually tells a lot how the workout is gonna go.
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Well since we don’t need any of the studies conducted, critical thinking, models of success or even careful consideration we’re free to just draw conclusions with a crayon and some construction paper!
Therefore, I say that the people that break records got strong because of their warm up and in spite of their actual work outs! Now prove that they didn’t.
That fits in nicely with your quoted line of thinking, doesn’t it?
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Like I said, do what you want, but just saying “I start harder on what I consider my warm up” doesn’t make what you do a warm up. You’re the only person I’ve ever heard of suggest a warm-up weight of 80%+ of their 1RM.
So on and so forth
Don’t see, “Throw 80% of your max on the bar and go slow…”
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I wonder if @Pureinsanity would warm up when he was running the Predator Program.
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I read each of those articles and no two agree on how long and intense a warm up should be. I think we can agree to disagree
I bet his eBook on The virtue of not warming up an empirical look at the evidence is a real page-turner.
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Lol, whatever, man.
No one here claims that there is only one way to warm up. Just that tossing 80% is way over a line and should not be called as a warm up.
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Dude ate raw meat; I don’t think “warm up” was part of his vocabulary.
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That dude was something special.
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I’m going to say this for the last time. I prefer warming up by going hard, but not 100 percent max. The objective of warming up is to circulate blood and loosen the joints. Going hard can do this too in most exercises. So by definition, going hard at first is warming up. If I feel sluggish one day, I’ll start lighter, if not, I’ll start hard.
But 80%? That’s insanely heavy as a first set. I very rarely go even to 90% in my training.
Anyway. Maybe this one has come to its end.
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But, whatever, we can just define things however we want.
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Gorilla’s don’t warm up, they also only eat stuff like shoots, stems, leaves and fruit and those mother fuckers are jacked. Success leaves clues
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