SAVE TIME ON YOUR WARMUPS

Starting Strength Coach Grant Broggi explains how to warm up like a pro and stop wasting time.
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[@michaelweinberg6595]

I do feel there’s a difference between “warming up” and limbering up joint mobility….especially as I’ve advanced thru my 40’s. Grant I agree with everything you’re saying in terms of warming up. But as I move from squats into my second lift (usually press or bench), I do feel that the extra reps during warmup sets, while maybe not necessary for warming up, help with joint mobility and ROM.

[@darylwilliams5770]

I have to commend your reasonable approach to physical fitness. You seem to be more open minded about an individuals goals and many various ways to achieve them. That is why I subscribed to your channel and wish you much success. Thank you for being a voice of reason in the strength training community. Not only in this video in many of your coaching videos. Keep up the great work.

[@dandiaz_]

This is awesome. I was rushing my workout today because I was considering all the warm ups I “had to do”. Trying this from now on.

[@thestrengthco]

glad its helpful!

[@philsgaragegym]

Agreed. The warmups are important, but the volume can be taken down.

[@kayodoubleu3310]

I can so much relate to that. I hate warming up. It just seems like a waste of time and i am always rushing through it.

[@MetroidHybrid]

I find this great, if for nothing else than presenting a valid template for warming-up for a Deadlift-first workout within the "Starting Strength" context..

[@dial0562]

My warm up 2x10 bar 2x5 45% roughly 1x3 65% roughly 1x2 75% roughly 1x2 85% roughly 1x1 90%-95% only if 85% still wasn't enough. I only do this guideline on my first exercise of the day. Just like you said, if I'm deadlifting first and then squatting, my warmup for squats will probably be cut in half and only singles. Love the content, keep up the great work and thank you for supplying us knowledge to be better in the gym.

[@thestrengthco]

Great to hear!

[@user-uy2ul4ui8t]

Amazing work

[@jsang16]

Useful thanks Grant!

[@DSquared1969]

Hey Grant, Love these videos especially when you validate what I instinctively started doing, I’m now three years into following starting strength program and I have never felt this good in my entire life, at 54 years old I’m moving more weight than I ever have. Last year I got a pair of your 45 pound Strength Company plates, they are freaking awesome. Thank you Mark Rippetoe for codifying this program into Starting Strength without it I would be weak and getting weaker. Just remember strong people are harder to kill and more useful in general.

[@thestrengthco]

Glad it’s helpful!

[@DarrenJohn10X]

I wish I could click Like for this comment fahve times!

[@joshuapillar]

Great suggestion. Thanks

[@hasanc1526]

thanks I was looking for this

[@Orapqa1]

Definitely a game changer after 8 months! Once you’re warm, the rest is mental! 😊

[@dutch4066]

2:53 workout* Great vid and nice timing. I was thinking about this for a while now. And makes a lof of sense.

[@thestrengthco]

glad its helpful!

[@mattmckee6145]

Great advice, was definitely doing too many warm up sets!

[@beskeptic]

Awesome video! I was losing so much time on my press warmups

[@deanallen8450]

Thanks so much for this! I used your old warm up model and was resting too long between work sets. I just got back to lifting after a good time off. While still lifting relatively light weights this has saved me tons of time. My workouts are 40-45 minutes. Thanks so much for this.

[@beeatoms]

solid advice thx

[@andrewtanczyk4009]

Warm ups? I’ll have to try that more often. 😂😅

[@Eric_Feigl]

Great advice for exercises after squats…implementing this tomorrow!

[@thestrengthco]

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@rsd22123]

Wicked helpful! Thx…

[@thestrengthco]

Also, another time hack, put a tv in your gym so you can watch the Celtics while working out.

[@dankent8650]

Game changer for me. Sometimes you just need to hear the obvious…🙏

[@doubleud2140]

Are you taking any rest time between any of the warm up sets? Or just a few minutes before starting the main sets? If so, how much? Thanks for the video

[@dangoldstein152]

Grant, thanks for this helpful, time-saving content! But! Do you think removing what would otherwise be a bunch of volume/tonnage from these warm-up sets would result in reduced efficacy of the Stress-Adaptation-Recovery cycle?

[@thestrengthco]

It could if you were doing ascending sets of 5 or something like that. But if you are not a novice I would say no. Or if it did I would add more to the heavy sets! You don’t get stronger with sub-maximal weights

[@waltersobchak6546]

👍

[@trogdor20X6]

For me and how my gym is set up, it's not the number of reps per that's the time sink, it's changing plates

[@thestrengthco]

this should be helpful for that too!

[@smilsmff]

benching 135 for reps is a waste of time when you are going to 300# or so. even at 225#s