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Your warm up
jessimurph
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The first two days I think Imgot a little overexcited to start nrol4w and accidentally skipped the warm up where you go through each exercise you are supposed to do an a lighter weight. Today I was very careful to do it, but I'm wondering if everyone does a set of all the warm up exercises at once or before each individual set.
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I incline walk on treadmill or use the elliptical for 10 minutes. I do some body weight squats and lunges. Then I do a low weight set of squats or deadlifts. Then I start.
I don't do the low weight set before each exercise.
After I do 10 minutes of stretching.0 -
I'm really bad at this. I walk/jog for 5 minutes and stretch for like 2. I should work on that.0
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I do the Jillian Micheals warm up from the 30 day shred.0
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I incline walk on treadmill or use the elliptical for 10 minutes. I do some body weight squats and lunges. Then I do a low weight set of squats or deadlifts. Then I start.
I don't do the low weight set before each exercise.
After I do 10 minutes of stretching.
Almost exactly this! Elliptical is 10-15 min and sometimes (most times) I do HIIT on bike or elliptical after.0 -
I'm quite bad at my warm ups but then the room I work out in at home is quite hot which helps
my normal warm up is 3-5 mins stationary bike and a quick barbell complex with the empty bar 0 -
I always do a few minutes of walking on the treadmill to heat it up.. roll out everything with smooth dynamic movements.. bodyweight squats and lunges.. and two warm up sets per exercise at... I dunno, I guess... 70ish percent of what my full sets are going to be at?0
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I do 5 mins on the Eliptical then another 5 mins of dynamic stretching. Then I do the first exercise at 50% of the weight for one set.
I do a really good stretch out at the end of the workout and use the foam roller for a good 10 minutes.
I've not had any injury problems so far, touch wood!
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I usually do Jillian Micheals warm up and these are my burn numbers, a1- 100, b1-106 calories, a2-179calories, b2-120calories,
a3-171calories No warm up for b3-101 calories. Even though the 3-4 minute warm up kicks my butt, I'm going to do it!0 -
I usually warm up on the treadmill -- 3 minutes walking, 5-12 minutes running, 3 minutes walking. Once in a while, I just do the elliptical for 5 minutes, if I'm pressed for time.
Before I do my initial set of weights, I do a quick set without the weights, just to stretch out, then a set with just the bar (deadlifts and squats only), and then move on to my normal weights. For things other than deads and squats, I do the set without weights, just putting my body through the motions, and then add weights.
I don't do the warm-up in the book.0 -
I walk my dog for about 20-30 minutes~that makes me warm enough,
but my weights aren't that heavy...yet0 -
I do 5 mins on elliptical and about 3 on treadmille, stretching between each rep. I did much better this am too:)0
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I warm up on the elliptical or arc trainer so that my upper body is involved as well as my legs. I do anywhere from 5-10 minutes depending on my mood. Then I stretch and stretch and stretch until I no longer feel tightness in any of my muscles - this can take 10 minutes or more. For the front-squat push press, I always do a 1/2 set with an empty bar, to get my coordination down. For everything else, I just get started.0
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