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Warm ups are important a proper one will lower your risk of injury.
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Increase your strength by preparing your nervous system for higher stress levels and overall help you
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reach your fitness goals faster.
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While most beginners understand the importance of warming up before lifting weights they don't know
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how it's done correctly.
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Before we go over the optimal warmup routine for lifting weights I want to discuss three common warmup
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mistakes that you will see a lot in the gym.
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Number one on the list is too much cardio.
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When talking about a good warm up.
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Most people think of some sort of cardio to get their blood flowing.
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The problem with these full body cardio warm ups is that they don't prepare your central nervous system.
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All the major exercises you should be doing in the gym involve unique movement and target specific body
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part.
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No amount of carbs you will get your muscles and your central nervous system ready for such a task.
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In fact it usually is counterproductive.
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The more you run or bike to warm up before lifting heavy weights the more you deplete your glycogen
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stores.
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Glycogen is the primary fuel your muscles use for energy production and to avoid using it all before
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you even get to your first exercise.
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Make sure to keep your warm up cardio to around 5 minutes max.
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Warm up Mistake number 2 is static stretching before your workout.
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Don't get me wrong stretching is a vital part of any workout routine but it's timing is just as important.
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Research has shown that static stretching before your workout does not prevent injuries and does little
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to improve flexibility.
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In some cases it might even decrease athletic performance due to the damage that can cause your muscle
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tissue.
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So instead of stretching before your workout you should do it afterwards.
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This will prevent injuries a lot more effectively.
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The last mistake is a lack of progression in your warm up routine.
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When preparing for their workout most people will do one or two sets of 10 to 15 reps with only the
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bar and then go straight to the first working set.
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Just like cardio.
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This strategy will do little to prepare your nervous system for the stress.
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It's about to be under.
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You need to build up tension by doing a series of progressively heavier warmup sets and the heavier
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the weight in your first working set.
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The longer you want to prepare for it.
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So the million dollar question is how do you get close to your working weight without fatiguing yourself
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in the process.
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The obvious problem with a progressive warm up is that even though it most effectively prepares your
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central nervous system it can wear you out before you even reach your first working set.
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So to avoid unnecessary fatigue you should increase the weight in each one I've said.
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While decreasing the number of repetitions.
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In practice this means you do a warm up sequence consisting of three to four warmup sets and here you
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start by doing 8 reps with only the bar in your second set.
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You lift 50 percent of your first working set for 5 reps in your third warmup said.
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You continue going up with the wage to 70 percent of your first working set and decrease the number
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of reps to 3.
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Now depending on how heavy lift you might want to do a fourth set but because beginners usually use
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lighter weight this last set is optional.
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Please rest 60 seconds between each one of said and three minutes between the last warmup set and your
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first working set.
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