Alright, so there’s clearly been some confusion regarding warm up sets in my latest video, so let me explain. First off, a warm up set is simply just to warm you up, not provide you with any sort of stimulus for growth. Thus, they shouldn’t be taken anywhere close to failure and they won’t count towards your overall weekly volume. When it comes to performing them, you have 2 options. Option A, is to utilize a pyramid where you increase the weight while decreasing the reps until you get to your first working set. And option B is to do 1 or 2 straight sets of the same weight and reps just to get your muscles loose. Both options should not be anywhere near muscular failure, and should only utilize 5-15 reps in total, to avoid any unnecessary build up of fatigue. As a general guideline, I recommend doing pyramid warm ups for really heavy compounds or exercises first in your session, and straight sets for anything else that requires it. So for example, if you’re training chest, you might do a 3 set pyramid warm up for your first exercise of bench press, then 1 straight warm up set for chest flys, and no warm up sets for dips. Then, when you get to your tricep volume, you may only need 1 or 2 warm up sets in total, if any at all, since your triceps have already been indirectly warmed up from your pressing movements. This ensures that your muscles are ready for your working sets to allow for quality and productive training without creating any fatigue that impacts your performance.
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