The word stretch is a synonym! 
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So if you warm up with 80+% of your max, then what the fuck do your working sets look like? are you always doing 100% for your working sets?
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Maybe the workout goes:
1x85%
1x100%
Amrapx110%
If he feels good he goes straight to 110% There is no peer evidence after all.
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There was an article in Powerlifting USA many years ago, with some research supposedly, suggesting warm-ups unnecessary in the squat & bench due to the eccentric phase priming the body. Personally, I’d rather go with accomplished lifters. I know several 500 benchers personally that start with the bar to warmup. While watching World’s Strongest Man in 2011 in NC, some of the athletes began with 225 for the DL warmups, but I saw it quickly stripped back down to 135. If memory serves, the deads that day ranged from 815 to 975 (Big Z won that event). Watch Ironmind training videos, and many elite Olympic lifters being warmups with a stick or pvc pipe.
Now the people I routinely see never warming up (or minimally so), are the weak pricks in LA Fitness. They can get away with it.
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One of your first posts in the thread included this exact quote:
“I don’t warm up. Change my mind.”
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There’s a pretty simple way for you to prove that your method, whatever you want to call it, is safe and effective: use it to get stronger than people who train differently, or to get equally strong while saving the five minutes it takes to do a set with 135 and 225 first.
Until you do that, why should anyone take your method seriously?
I already am stronger than many people who train differently.
I was just trying to be nice. 410 is nowhere close to the “listen to my advice” ballpark
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I never said listen to my advice
Where did I say that you said that?
But, more importantly, ALL people who are far stronger than you warm up differently than you do. Don’t compare yourself to the weakest, and use that to justify your strategy.
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You put it in quotations
I’m not, that is YOUR logic.
Correct. you can answer my question now if you want
I know a girl who competes at 123-132 and pulls over 400. I’d listen to her advice.
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I don’t think OP is a girl who competes at 123-132. I could be wrong though
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I suspect you are right!
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In all seriousness though, that girl is almost on Stefi Cohen’s level. Not sure what Stefi’s current deadlift max is, but it’s well into the 400s I believe. Regardless, any girl who can pull 400+ is probably someone worth taking advice from hahaha
She placed top 5 at last year’s Arnold Classic. Best lifter in my area probably.
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Wow. What’s her name???
There’s a guy who trains at a gym about a mile from my house who placed at the Arnold, but I have no idea what his name or weight class is. One of the guys I coach told me about him after I got back from the Arnold this year and I was very surprised. I didn’t get a chance to see any powerlifting though… only strongman, which was still fun. Not seeing powerlifting is probably my biggest regret of 2018 so far though hahaha