Warming Up Made Squats Perfect?

[TX_iron]

@T3hPwnisher

I do zero mobility or stretching and do 5 reps with the bar before moving on: please advise.

Wait, so are you telling us you’ve never done 531 as written!? (Poking fun)

[T3hPwnisher]

Poking fun, but you aren’t wrong.

[twojarslave]

@isdatnutty

I only do 45x20 because these days I really don’t do any other sort of warming up before squatting. I don’t activate my abs or stretch. I just get to the squat rack and squat, so the 45x20 seems to open everything up lol.

But if you stretched and all that 45x10 seems to be perfect for sure though!

Other than our irreconcilable difference on the correct number of squats to do with an empty bar, I’d work up basically the same way you did. Just warm up with the movement. I also liked to stretch with a couple of deep pause squats along the way. One or two as I worked up somewhere in the 275-365 range. Open up the hips, sink into the hole, stay tight and let everything settle in for a bit.

[TX_iron]

Haha. Well I’ve never ran it without making a modification so… Kettle/Pot.

[ActivitiesGuy]

I skip the empty bar and go straight to 135. Bunch of pansies, you are!

[T3hPwnisher]

@ActivitiesGuy

I skip the empty bar and go straight to 135. Bunch of pansies,

In my experience, it is pansies that typically skip…

[ActivitiesGuy]

@naturallyhard

Why does warming up make the weight feel lighter? Squats always felt like a ordeal but yesterday they actually were fun and didn’t hurt or feel tight my hips felt loose and not only did I get parrell I got ass to grass!

I’m glad that you made this discovery, but I worry for the future of the human race that this came as a surprise to you.

It’s amazing that we’ve made it this far, really. How do we all get through the day?

[twojarslave]

@ActivitiesGuy

How do we all get through the day?

I can only speak for myself, but it mostly boils down to blind luck and an inescapable desire for food and sex.