Warming up

[PeterDolan]

How do you guys (and girls) like to warm up before a workout? How long? What are you trying to achieve?

[samuelNZ]

Squats and deadlift days I start with a some quick lunges around the basketball court to get a little blood flowing then into the agile 8. Find it works wonders getting the hips and glutes nice and warm. Usually struggle a little bit with tightness on those days.

Bench and jerk days I will do a few sets of shoulder dislocates with the old wooden stick we've got, a few behind the head presses with the stick and some of those around the world thinigies. Slowly moving my hands closer together every 3 reps to get a further stretch on 3. Some times do the old Y fly on the swiss ball for bench days to really stretch out the pec and also I will add in some rotator cuff work.

[perpetual_injuries]

I start every workout with a 15min bike to the gym followed by some fast push-ups. Then depending on the exercise i'll sometimes run through a set of maybe 15 at a low weight to warm the muscle up a bit more. It all depends on how I'm feeling though.

[HarryB]

I always warm up my rotator cuff muscles before any upper body work and my elbows. Before I legs I will just do some free weight squats and a very little bit of stretching.

I tend to stretch more between sets than prior to doing them. Something I once read about the golgi tendon reflex and how too much stretching lessens it and so you don't have the same explosiveness through your movements..

[Rookie]

I keep it simple, just a few warm up sets on the exercise I start with- aim is just to get some blood flow around the joints and to get the muscles warm/ready for the working sets

[Tygrrh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e15iVNiE6Hg

:pfft: :pfft: :pfft:

Couldn't resist, someone did it to me yesterday when I was talking about warmups on FB.

[singular]

My right shoulder was very insistent with its aching so I started doing broomsticks (I even bought the 'stick' part of a broomstick from Mitre10, heh) and scapula wall slides before each workout - upper or lower, and now it's all in the clear.

I do a set of my main exercise at 30% then a set at 60% of whatever weight the work set is at.

I like the idea of doing some bodyweight lunges for the hips. :>

[Cameron_R]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e15iVNiE6Hg

:pfft: :pfft: :pfft:

Couldn't resist, someone did it to me yesterday when I was talking about warmups on FB.

:shock: just a little disturbing LOL

[Tygrrh]

:grin: isn't it just

[MissMuscles]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e15iVNiE6Hg

:pfft: :pfft: :pfft:

Couldn't resist, someone did it to me yesterday when I was talking about warmups on FB.

YUCK !

[Grover]

more like gaybo!

[Tygrrh]

Well it was loaded by HotSexyHansomeGuys...

[Hamman]

Before you go for any exercise you must warm up your body to

avoid any injury and prepare yourself for the exercise.

[Android]

I never warmpup before a workout but each exercise I have warmup sets like anyone else I suppose.

My warmups are 1 or 2 sets, 1st set is usually 20-30 reps for getting movement and motion sorted. Then 2nd warmup has some weight on it to get muscle warmed up.

No stretching

[crazyfacials]

i must be doing it wrong, for me warmup = whatever compound workout I am doing, a set of about 6 reps with about 40-60% of my working set's weight

[PeterDolan]

I generally follow the same protocol as android except I like a lower rep range

[Gym rat]

I also use the same protocal as Android with one or two warm sets but with 15 reps in each set to get the blood flowing in which ever muscle group that may ie chest or quads etc.

[Shutupandsquat]

I generally do two sets of 20 on any exercise. Unless, it's shoulders. If it's barbell press I'll do one set of 50 with the bar. Deads is just a simple 5.

[legacy]

Was doing warmups, bike or rower but found it was taking my edge off when I hit the weights. Given away doing stretches and warmup now. Do stretch a bit after workouts though.

[cantygirl]

Same as gymrat, I always start with bigger muscle group first and only warm up at the very beginning

[loveggs]

i use the machine bike for 5 mins, then hit the boxing bag till my hearts pumpin!

[Collie]

Hello dude,

Me Collie here. I wanna gain some weight and for this I use to eat 4 time's meal and some sort of the chicken breast and also some kind of the exercise's along with my diet plan for that not to increase my weight to my targeted one.....

[Tygrrh]

Hello dude,

Me Collie here. I wanna gain some weight and for this I use to eat 4 time's meal and some sort of the chicken breast and also some kind of the exercise's along with my diet plan for that not to increase my weight to my targeted one.....

Wow, I actually think my 11 month old girl is more eloquent than that!