Let's talk volume

[Scott Stevenson]

Without getting into to much detail I'm coming off of a pretty serious injury so I generally warm up that much on all compound type exercises. Do you not recommend that much warm up for your fortitude training loading sets generally?

On a side note I used to warm up similarly for my one main set when I trained DC. Same question as above, in general do you feel that is too much warm up?

I look forward to your reply.

Thanks

I always suggest folks warm-up for the purposes of warming up, which can mean any of a number of things in terms of cardio, stretching, warm-up sets

I think it *might* be fatigue-inducing to do that much warm-up, i.e., if you do less work during your warm-up, you could use more weight and/or get more reps during your work set. This comes from doing DC for about a decade and helping a lot of guys do it as well.

If your purpose is to focus as much stimulus into that last final work set, then you could be defeating the purpose in doing so many sets with reps that high beforehand.

(When you say "all compound exercises" do you mean compound exercises for all muscle groups? That sounds like one hell of an injury!!! )

-Scott