FT Questions....

[marcheoucreve]

That's not far off, depending as well on how strong you are, too, which will (for most) dictate how many warm-ups you need to do. If your'e going to 12 plates / side on a leg press, then you might need to warm up with 3, 6, 8, and 10 plates / side (and perhaps some knee extensions, etc.).

A time saver for you:

After finishing the training for a muscle (group), move quickly to the next exercise for the next muscle group, secure the machine and get your first warm-up set in. THEN do your stretch for the muscle group, either at that station (e.g., ham stretch with your leg on a calf press machine) or elsewhere, but leaving your stuff - belt, wraps, etc. on the machine you'll be using. This would look something like this:

Finish training Back with Back Width MR.
Move to chest machine and do 1st warm-up.
Stretch 1 Lat (if doing Unilateral lat stretch
Next chest warm-up
Stretch other Lat.
Last chest warm-up
Chest MR.

-S

Hi Scott,

Thank you for the response.

That's a lot good tips and I will organize my next workout with your advises.

I'm not strong at all but I do need proper warm-up (few sets) to really feel and prepare the muscle for the assault, in order to give my best on the exercise.

Before your program, I never have stretched other muscles groups than legs.

I really appeciate the sensation and benefice of stretching so I really put emphasis of those.

I don't know why, but I believed that the muscle group should be stretched IMMEDIATLY (without pause) after the last working set

So with your instuctions I will be able to gain a few minutes, here and there.

Your reply reassure me, cause by dint of hearing and reading over the web that "workout should be short..., we need to excercise like sprinters..., ect" I told me : am I on the wrong path? Am I doing things the wrong way?

I love the program so far