Let's talk volume

[_jais_]

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

Ah makes sense. Ya it's a back injury so I'm generally very careful and warm up very thoroughly and completely. I also use the elliptical prior to touching a weight to get a good sweat going. I see what you mean though and I can definitely see your point when it comes to DC training about being too fatigue inducing to do that many warmup sets, but what about fortitude training, which I just recently started, would you in general recommend more of a DC style warm up on loading days focusing getting up as much weight as possible for the loading sets?

Or because some of the tiers have multiple loading sets is it as crucial to build up to that "one" max set?

Thank you for your responses.