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Everywhere on the internet is written that the warm ups are very important. I wouldn't be surprised if someone claims that warm up is more important than the actual training...
This is one of those phenomens that everybody talks about. but in fact few are actually doing. Most of my friends' training includes few arm circles or at best 5 minutes of cardio and they are ready to break records.
Considering it as a mistake, the fact that I was warming up in the way, mentioned above, in recent time I've started to warm up a little better, but... Then I've realized that I am not obeying to the second "golden ruler" of the internet masterminds- "Don't train for too long!". Let me give you an example- one of my most recent workouts was exactly 1 hour. It consisted barbell hack squats, sumo deadlifts and military press. I performed every exercise for 3 sets, consisting of 6 reps. The same number of sets and reps was my warm up for each exercise. I had 5 minutes on the assault bike to make my heart pump a little harder and I have stretched 15 minutes in the end of the workout for cool down. I performed my working sets fot all the exercises for 20 minutes (even 19) , so my actual trainig is only one third of the workout!
Do you have the same problem, guys? And this is just one small training session with just three exercises. It is true that the longer the workout is, less warm up is needed as the workouts progresses, but still. Imagine full body workout with those detailed warm up protocols, most of the time we are going to warm up and stretch.
This is one of those phenomens that everybody talks about. but in fact few are actually doing. Most of my friends' training includes few arm circles or at best 5 minutes of cardio and they are ready to break records.
Considering it as a mistake, the fact that I was warming up in the way, mentioned above, in recent time I've started to warm up a little better, but... Then I've realized that I am not obeying to the second "golden ruler" of the internet masterminds- "Don't train for too long!". Let me give you an example- one of my most recent workouts was exactly 1 hour. It consisted barbell hack squats, sumo deadlifts and military press. I performed every exercise for 3 sets, consisting of 6 reps. The same number of sets and reps was my warm up for each exercise. I had 5 minutes on the assault bike to make my heart pump a little harder and I have stretched 15 minutes in the end of the workout for cool down. I performed my working sets fot all the exercises for 20 minutes (even 19) , so my actual trainig is only one third of the workout!
Do you have the same problem, guys? And this is just one small training session with just three exercises. It is true that the longer the workout is, less warm up is needed as the workouts progresses, but still. Imagine full body workout with those detailed warm up protocols, most of the time we are going to warm up and stretch.