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You Don’t Need A 20 Minute Warm Up Routine, You Just Need THIS
Warming up for your exercises is important, especially when you’re lifting heavy weights, but there’s a smart way and a wildly inefficient way to go about it.
The idea you need a 20 minute, full body warm-up routine for every workout is the inefficient way.
But the right way is this:
Warm Up With Your First Exercise
Here’s a simple and straightforward example:
Let’s say your first exercise of the day is seated dumbbell shoulder press with the 40lbs dumbbells, and you’re feeling a bit stiff after a long work day…
Instead of hopping on the treadmill for 10 minutes, stretching, doing the DeFranco Agile 8, and hitting the jump rope while listening to David Goggins…
Simply do some really light, slow and controlled shoulder press with the 10lbs dumbbells for 5–10 reps.
Then rest a minute and hit the 20s for 3–5 reps
Rest a minute again then hit the 30s for 2–3 reps.
And by now, the joints and muscles you’ll be using for your first exercise will be warmed up and ready, so you rest at least 3 minutes and go into your first set.
