The Art of Warming Up

[quote]willden wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]Malaka79 wrote:
Haha, its not that serious man.

Im sure you are a nice guy, but when you say " I pick my own brain daily" like you have any originality at all, well im calling bullshit on it, you are the typical internet trainer con. That is all, im done with this.[/quote]

Dude, it’s not like there’s no COMMON SENSE with warming up. Assuming there’s really nothing new under the sun, then it’s safe to say that great minds sometimes do indeed think alike.

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Except Lalanne[/quote]

Dude, wow. There’s way more than one single damned perspective. It’s activity specific. If I want to become great at overall fitness, I’d look towards Lalanne. If I want to squat a 1000 lbs, I’m looking to Louie Simmons, AJ Roberts, Hatfield, etc. I am NOT looking to LaLanne for that damned advice. If I want to be jacked and compete like Arnold or Cutler or insert name of professional bber I’m looking to people who’ve been fucking huge for advice first, not a thin–albeit lean–LaLanne. He was never big. He was never a bodybuilder. He was a fitness guy.

If I want to be effective in my weight training for athletes, I’m looking to athletic coaches.

And if I want to be told how to think, I’m looking to people who’ve got waaaay more than “4 years on and off training”. I have 10. Not 10 on and off, 10 solid, and serious. Other people here have way more than me. I am going to take the advice of people who’ve made really great progress in what I want to make great progress in. If I want to swim 2 miles towing boats or do a million chin-ups I’ll look to LaLanne. I don’t.

Warming up, just like weight training, just like skill training, just like technique training, is GOAL SPECIFIC.

didn’t charles atlas start his whole dynamic tension thing when he saw a lion stretch at a zoo?
im pretty sure that how it started

to me warming up has to achieve these things
. get blood into the muscles
. not fatigue them in the process
. start at a weight thats easy even on your worst day
. working up and not using crazy increments (i think using 45’s to ramp is a bit much)

last one depends on your strength levels but this seems to cover all the basics

Fuck man, I didn’t think a warm-up thread could reach 4 pages, FOUR, MOTHERFUCKING, PAGES!

Warming up is more of an art, rather than a science. VITAL to the iron training :wink:

I wouldn’t be spending SO much time warming up NOW, if I had spent MORE time warming up BACK THEN.

[quote]Arturo_Roberto wrote:
Warming up is more of an art, rather than a science. VITAL to the iron training ;)[/quote]

Hence the name of the article :wink: Thanks for posting sir.