01-08-2022, 07:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-08-2022, 07:59 PM by desertrock.)
Some thoughts on warm up.
I always do a general warmup in the beginning before hitting the exercises to get the joints warm. For legs it might be backwards sled drags without weight, dynamic stretches, bodyweight squats in different stances etc. If I'm training both upper and lower body, I first warm up the upper body, then train it, then warmup the lower body, then train legs.
As for the exercises themselves, I go through the zig-zag routine with each exercise starting with just the bar (or equivalent) bumping up the weights and lowering the reps each round. Of course the last warmup round may only be a single on each exercise so as to prevent fatigue before the actual working set(s). By this point my muscles and joints are super warm and ready for action, and in fact, I find this style of training warms me up better than just warming up on a single exercise like in a "regular" bodybuilding workout.
I always do a general warmup in the beginning before hitting the exercises to get the joints warm. For legs it might be backwards sled drags without weight, dynamic stretches, bodyweight squats in different stances etc. If I'm training both upper and lower body, I first warm up the upper body, then train it, then warmup the lower body, then train legs.
As for the exercises themselves, I go through the zig-zag routine with each exercise starting with just the bar (or equivalent) bumping up the weights and lowering the reps each round. Of course the last warmup round may only be a single on each exercise so as to prevent fatigue before the actual working set(s). By this point my muscles and joints are super warm and ready for action, and in fact, I find this style of training warms me up better than just warming up on a single exercise like in a "regular" bodybuilding workout.