to zigzag or not to zigzag

[Scott Stevenson]

For the legs with warming up, lately every single warm up I have been doing no less than 10 reps. Not like my usual dc fashion of warming up with less and less reps. I find this also stops me from being able to lift as heavy on the main set(s) which for me feels better. I used to squat over 7 plates dude I ain't so bothered about those kind of weights anymore.

Saying that and I don't know if there is something in this. If on tier 2 its say 2 sets of squats....the 2nd set feels so much better in terms of muscular activation.
I experienced this too with Dc. I did a heavy set plus a back off set and then the Wm. The back off always felt the best (more quaddy).

It's like I had to go through a heavy rough feeling set 1st to get the quads working properly or something.

Matt

That's pretty common, Matt. A solution for that that has worked for me is to do 3-4 reps with a weight at least 90% of my go weight. Sometimes, even WITH the go weight.

So I'd be squatting 5 plates for my go weight, I might actually do a "warm-up" set for the nervous system WITH 5 plates (or maybe 4 and a 25lb'er).

-S