Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Warm-Up

joeint
joeint
Posts: 14
Joined: 2002/10/26
United States
2002/11/24, 06:52 PM
When working a body part, lets say chest, I do my warm-up set for bench press and then do my two or three work sets. When I do my next set for chest, incline dumbell press. Should I do a warm-up set or move into the work sets. Do I need to do a warm-up for each move? Once I start on a body part is the first warm-up enough until I start the next body part?

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Joe I
bb1fit
bb1fit
Posts: 11,105
Joined: 2001/06/30
United States
2002/11/24, 07:44 PM
No....once you warm up for your first exercise for chest,your chest will already be warmed up. Will take away from your strength, (overload) work sets for the next exercise. One note, one warmup set may not be sufficient. Try at least 2, with pretty light weight. Should not in any way work the muscle, just get blood flowing there. I do one more of 3 withabout 70-75% of my working sets just to acclimate the muscle to heavier weight. Good luck.