Is warmping up the most overrated meme?I take like ~15min to walk from home to gym at a leisurely pace, hit the assault bike for like ~10min at a low to moderate intensity, then begin my barbell lifts by ramping up the weight rather than going straight for heavy sets.I see people spending over 30min doing the most varied stretching and warming up memes before they actually begin doing anything minimally relevant.People get injured all the time due to terrible form or egolifting, but I never heard of somebody getting injured because "they didn't feel like spending more time warming up than actually lifting".Is my mindset really in the wrong here, /fit/?
>>77298869You ever see a lion warm up before springing in a gazelle?
>>77298946my cat stretches itself out before catching birds all the time
I also think warming up is ridiculous, but it’s not completely useless. I think it’ s pretty good before heavy compounds. But I’m not talking about those retard ass stretches. More like gradually adding weight until you reach the weight you’re going to lift that day. Rest, and then start your heavy set. That really helps me feel stronger on squats, ohp and bench press
>>77298869A warmup is doing the exercise you're planning to complete for a couple of sets but with half or 75% of the weight for less reps. Stretching is for after the workout.
>>77298869Anything at or above 10 reps barring people who push elite numbers the muscle and joint is warming up sufficiently during the set.Warmups are mainly for strength athletes and people doing deep rom stuff.
5 minute walk, 4 reps at 50% weight, 2 reps at 75% weight, then right to the heavy stuff is all you need
>>77298869It depends.
i always just warmed up with the empty barbell. but on leg days, I'll do a bit of jumprope as a warmup
Warming up is essential. I warm up with the empty bar and do 5 reps. Than I gradually increase the weight with 5 reps unti it start to become hard. Then I have my first lift with aprox. 80 % of my my max. and then I go up to my working weight. I only do this for my first compound or if my upcoming exercise hits completly different muscles. Pulled some muscles after not warming up for the exercise and was in pain for months. It gets worse the older I get but even for boxing I have to start light and then gradually increase my power. Fucked my shoulder up on a boxing machine once with a full power hook. The pain was insane.
>>77298869Warmup with the same lift but lower weight - yes, fucking mandatoryStretches, treadmill, whatever - meme
At what point is warming up required? If someone was hypothetically a skinnyfat dyel who can only do reps on 1 plate bench squat and deadlift should they bother? Hypothetically speaking
>>77298946big cats are just as lazy as small cats so yes
>>77298869damn, you should tell all those coaches for teams that what they are doing are memes
>>77298869Yes and no. I don’t really see the point in walking on the treadmill for 15 minutes. But I do warm up my shoulders at home before I go, and 2-3 warm up sets for exercises. I don’t do any warm up sets the after I’ve hit a muscle on an exercise already.
>>77298869My shoulders are healthy, I don't literally tear my muscles and tendons just from doing a 5rm cold.
>>77298946Imagine having the intelligence of yourself while being a male lion and all you do is develop lion karate and wait for the next lion fight
5-10 min walk and ramp up the weight to your working set. Been doing this for 15 years almost without a single issue ever.
>>77298946that's lioness work
>>77300407>cardio before liftingYou can get cardio by doing legs or low rest sets. Optimally I'd do cardio once every 3 weeks. You can maintain good cardio without doing high frequency high intensity.
>>77300414I mean, starting from low weights is the way to go, yesBut warming yourself up with some quick light cardio should make things even better than going to weights from cold
>>77298982This, I love doing deadhangs to decompress my spine.
>>77298869Doing cardio as warming up for weight lifting is dumb. You want to warm up your muscles and tendions not just your heartrate.I walk 2 minutes to the gym then just use the bar and add weight. Do some of dynamic stretching in between. Short rests and fast sets. Sometimes I start with some kettlebell swings on lower body days.
>go to the swimming pool>exiting the showers to the pool with some DYEL >he starts doing all sorts of whacky warm-up stretches>chad-plunge into the pool and just start swimming>15 minutes later he's still stretchingPic related, me coming out of the pool
>>77298869>Is my mindset really in the wrong here, /fit/?I'll tell you after you post your lifting stats.
>>77298869what do you find humiliating about warming up?
To go straight up into a heavy set with no warmup sounds so uncomfortable tho, it definitely takes a hit to your performance and probably your form. I'd at the very least do 3 minutes of cardio or so to increase the heartbeat a little bit. I guess you can replace that for a monster or pw if you're really set on not warming up.I also find it good to do one set with half the weight of whatever I'll be training before I start on heavier. For example if I'm gonna be OHPing 1pl8 I do one set with half a plate for 8 reps to check form and make sure everything is alright. You can definitely injure the fuck out of yourself OHPing heavy so it's more of a safety countermeasure than anything. And it feels kinda cranky to start right away with a working way, not comfortable at all.
>>77298869Add some unilateral cable shit but you actually rip it to warm up
>>77304071And some nice facepulls and push-ups and incline push-ups. So nice to properly warm up for bench or whatever I usually don't have 30 minutes to make a drink and fuck around before doing some lifts then going to sleep.
>>77298869Warming up is not about your muscles, it's about your nervous system.
>>77304081>doesn't add reps to 2pl8s
I'd always do some warmup sets before doing heavy barbell work (bench, ohp, squat, dl) esp because I usually started my routines with these movements. Nothing fancy, just one or two small sets with some weight.I do almost exclusively weighted calisthenics and it feels more forgiving, just a couple pullups or dips before doing them weighted is good enough.
>>77298869>Is warmping up the most overrated meme?yes
>>77299877Always warm up, this goes for first-day DYELs along with everyone else. You'll see consensus in the thread that hitting an exercise bike for a few minutes and then performing your compound movement with warm up sets before working sets should work just fine. I do about 4 warm up sets before working sets for squat and 3-4 for bench, DL, OHP. As you increase the weight per warmup set, decrease reps.
