What exactly does warming up look like? Or better yet, what do you do to warm up for a good weight training workout?
depends on what i am working…
for shoulders and/or chest i usually just wave my arms around in the air like a mad man for half a minute or so.
[quote]Stength4life wrote:
What exactly does warming up look like? Or better yet, what do you do to warm up for a good weight training workout?[/quote]
It’s pretty simple.
BB Curls: working weight - 135lb.
warm up 1: bar 12 reps
warm up 2: 65lb 12 reps
warm up 3: 95lb 3-4 reps
working weight: 135lb as many as you can
The reps vary and depend entirely on how I feel but that’s the gist of it.
I got stronger on my work sets when I lost the fear that if I DIDN’T do 3 sets of 10 with some light/moderate weight first that my muscles would rip off the bone.
My example (goal is bench 5x5)
1: 95 lbs x8
2: 135 lbs x5
Then maybe my first set of the 5x5 will be 205, then I do about 245 to 265 for my last 4 sets.
[quote]Standard Donkey wrote:
depends on what i am working…
for shoulders and/or chest i usually just wave my arms around in the air like a mad man for half a minute or so.[/quote]
My shoulders have become very difficult to warm up/stretch that I find my self doing a ton of light side raises and front raises throughout my workout. I also have to constantly stretch out my arm and as you say ‘wave my arms around like a mad man’.
Yet again, another issue that has entire articles dedicated to it. Use the search engine and Google.
Warming up is discussed in EVERY strength training book available, even the crappy ones.
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
Yet again, another issue that has entire articles dedicated to it. Use the search engine and Google.
Warming up is discussed in EVERY strength training book available, even the crappy ones. [/quote]
the OP is asking what us what WE do to warm up. don’t know about you, but he won’t find my warm ups on google.
[quote]Tiznut wrote:
Standard Donkey wrote:
depends on what i am working…
for shoulders and/or chest i usually just wave my arms around in the air like a mad man for half a minute or so.
My shoulders have become very difficult to warm up/stretch that I find my self doing a ton of light side raises and front raises throughout my workout. I also have to constantly stretch out my arm and as you say ‘wave my arms around like a mad man’.[/quote]
oh well i stretch for a couple minutes after each muscle group is worked…it’s a good idea 
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
Yet again, another issue that has entire articles dedicated to it. Use the search engine and Google.
Warming up is discussed in EVERY strength training book available, even the crappy ones. [/quote]
With this logic why do people even need to post on a message board. Might as well disable the reply button from now on…
I always bike for a couple of minutes for general warm-up. For bench workouts i’ll do pushups and for squat workouts ill do some jumps and bw squats+little stretching
[quote]alit4 wrote:
Bricknyce wrote:
Yet again, another issue that has entire articles dedicated to it. Use the search engine and Google.
Warming up is discussed in EVERY strength training book available, even the crappy ones.
the OP is asking what us what WE do to warm up. don’t know about you, but he won’t find my warm ups on google.[/quote]
Nice one.
I do sometimes think it’s OK to discuss things that may already be in year-old threads that have 100 or more posts in them. We’re not curing cancer so we can afford to sometimes start a new thread.
I found this link very helpful:
www.ironaddicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3404
After my bicep tear in August which was a direct result of ignoring proper warm up (and a big fat ego) I have become almost religious about warming up properly.