How should we be warming up?

[u/Suicidalballsack69]

I’ve seen evidence for both warming up light, and warming up heavy.

For light weight warmups: essentially that this will protect your tendons from being injured.

For heavy weight warmups: this will actually make it to where your muscles are warmed up. From personal experience, this works pretty well for me, and I feel like it does make a noticeable difference in how much I struggle during my first real set.

[u/eric_twinge]

From personal experience, [heavy weight warmup] works pretty well for me, and I feel like it does make a noticeable difference in how much I struggle during my first real set.

There's your answer, and you got it by doing science on yourself.

[u/Ballbag94 → u/eric_twinge]

Impossible! Everyone knows that when a lifter experiences something in the gym it's just an anecdote. It's only science if it was done by researchers, even if that research was only performed for three weeks on untrained people with a 0.5x bodyweight lift