Let's talk volume

[_jais_]

You're welcome!

I still recommend people do as much as they feel they need to be safely warmed up. I'd rather see someone do more warm-up sets and maybe get a rep or two less than not do enough and get injured.

One advance of the Higher Volume Tiers is that the multiple sets are indeed kind of a warm-up before the final set where one would go the failure (safely, of course). It's really a matter of what you feel you need to do.

I remember when I was training with Dave H. that, for instance on pressing movements, let's say on a HS press, we might do this:

Me:
Warm-up with 1 plate / side, 2 plates / side, 3, plates / side, 4 plates/ side then final go set. Reps might be: 10, 6, 4, 3, max effort RP set

Dave:
Warms up with 2 plates / side for 25 reps. Then he goes to his go weight after just one set. (I remember him doing exactly that once after we started back after a long time not training together. He had just been warming up that way when training alone. Before then, he'd simply do the reps with the lighter weights b/c that's what I did...)

So, it's really up to you. If you're injured, you can't lift. If you're making progress in the gym (even it that the reps are a little below your absolute best b/c of a fatiguing warm-up protocol), then you're going to grow.



-S

That is literally one of the best answers I've ever recieved on any forum. I truly appreciate it! Makes perfect sense, Thank you for the detail. I will probably continue to warmup a little more than the average trainee would just because of my situation.

Thanks again! Great forum!