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More rookie Gym questions: warmups before sets?
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<blockquote data-quote="FeelingLost" data-source="post: 111231" data-attributes="member: 15131"><p>Thanks everyone for the tips. A little background I will be 65 in Nov and have never been in a gym until 10 months ago. I am learning thru simple trial and error doing my best to not get hurt.</p><p></p><p>I first started out with no warmups and just did the 3 sets of 10 reps trying to pick weighs that cause muscle burning at rep 6. For 6 months this got me no where. </p><p>I had no mind to muscle connection and when I left the gym after 2 hours (including shower and swim time) I had no pump. I blamed it on muscle atrophy at my age.</p><p></p><p>A few months ago Loki posted his workout so I adjusted the weigh way down but did the sets and reps he was doing. My muscles started growing and I could now feel them working, the mind to muscle connection was finely happening. Something I noticed was my first two set were always my weakest and set 3,4,5 I could really pile on the weight and by set 6 I was wasted and spent most reps I did not make it to 12 failure was 6-8 </p><p></p><p>So that got me thinking maybe I should be doing warmups before each exersize and not starting my set count until I'm warmed up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FeelingLost, post: 111231, member: 15131"] Thanks everyone for the tips. A little background I will be 65 in Nov and have never been in a gym until 10 months ago. I am learning thru simple trial and error doing my best to not get hurt. I first started out with no warmups and just did the 3 sets of 10 reps trying to pick weighs that cause muscle burning at rep 6. For 6 months this got me no where. I had no mind to muscle connection and when I left the gym after 2 hours (including shower and swim time) I had no pump. I blamed it on muscle atrophy at my age. A few months ago Loki posted his workout so I adjusted the weigh way down but did the sets and reps he was doing. My muscles started growing and I could now feel them working, the mind to muscle connection was finely happening. Something I noticed was my first two set were always my weakest and set 3,4,5 I could really pile on the weight and by set 6 I was wasted and spent most reps I did not make it to 12 failure was 6-8 So that got me thinking maybe I should be doing warmups before each exersize and not starting my set count until I'm warmed up. [/QUOTE]
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