When it comes to a warm up, stretching, pre-workout stretching will not increase performance; in fact, it decreases your overall strength.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Specifically, recent research has shown that passive stretching reduces neural drive in the Type ll motor units.<\/p>\n This makes it very difficult for your body to work to its potential, especially when weight training. If you truly want to stretch, save it for after training.<\/p>\n In the G.E.T. System<\/a>, (Gene Expression Training) the 5 main priorities for the warm-up include:<\/p>\n All of these will increase performance in the gym and support what you are trying to accomplish.<\/p>\n The priorities were selected to give you 360 degree coverage mentally and physically for your training sessions.<\/p>\n The workouts demand you bring your absolute best effort day in and day out. The warm up allows you to bring that effort and keep the injuries away so you keep coming back for more.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Warming up for a gym session is extremely important. It is going to help increase performance and strength and also decrease the risk of injury.<\/p>\n There are many different types of warm-ups out there, all with a different purpose to produce a specific adaptation in the body prior to training.<\/p>\n What we want to avoid is doing so much work that you begin to tire yourself out or doing too much stretching\u2014doing either (or both) will only compromise performance.<\/p>\n The performance slump of tiring yourself out prior to training is pretty straightforward, but more often than not people do too long of a jog or run prior to training.<\/p>\n If you do light cardio in excess of 5-10 minutes prior to weight training you are slowly but surely increasing the acidity in your skeletal muscle tissue.<\/p>\n When you increase the acidity in your muscles, you create lactate at a faster rate.<\/p>\n When you create lactate at a faster rate you will fatigue earlier on in a set then you would have had you been more alkaline.<\/p>\n To paint a picture, if you and your buddy were of equal strength and were both doing sets of 12 on the bench press, if you had performed too much cardio prior to training, you would fatigue (based on your lactate levels) around the 6-8 mark as opposed to the 12 mark simply because you will receive the \u201cburning\u201d feeling from exercise far sooner.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n To warm up, pick your first two exercises with a load of 40% 1RM and perform each of them for 2 sets of 10 using full range of motion (ROM) and good control.<\/p>\n I want to make it clear that when we say full range of motion, we are refer- ring to your active available range of motion. This is entirely about the level of ROM YOU bring, not the textbook or your workout partners.<\/p>\n Never take your muscles and joints into a movement that you cannot control.<\/p>\n Everybody has an active available range of motion that we have to respect. If we do not respect this individual range variance you are increasing your susceptibility to injury drastically by putting your body through a movement pattern that it does not want to move through.<\/p>\n If you are not sure how to properly execute exercises, you should stop right now and read IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Ben Pakulski’s “6 essentials of exercise execution<\/a>.”<—(Click Here for FREE Download)<\/p>\n\n
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