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Intensity of warm-up sets for bodyweight exercises
I've noticed that it doesn't make sense to have warm-up sets for bodyweight exercises. For example, if you're first working set of pull-ups is 11 reps, surely you wouldn't want to do 2 sets with 6 and then 9 reps prior to your working set...
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Hi Michaela,
We do recommend warming up, even for bodyweight exercises To give you a bit of context, in a systematic review, McCrary et al. (2015) found “strong research-based evidence” that “warm-ups enhance power and strength performance.” In a meta-analysis, Fradkin et al. (2010) found that “Warm-up was shown to improve performance in 79% of the criterions examined.”
With that said, if you find it's not having much of an impact on your performance, you could save time by doing just one warm-up set (or even 0). Here's how:
Tap Settings (bottom bar)
Scroll down to Sets
Next to Warm-up sets, enter 1 (or 0)
Tap Save
You can also customise those at the exercise level by tapping More and Settings next to any exercise during any workout.
All the best,
Carl
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Hi Michaela,
We do recommend warming up, even for bodyweight exercises To give you a bit of context, in a systematic review, McCrary et al. (2015) found “strong research-based evidence” that “warm-ups enhance power and strength performance.” In a meta-analysis, Fradkin et al. (2010) found that “Warm-up was shown to improve performance in 79% of the criterions examined.”
With that said, if you find it's not having much of an impact on your performance, you could save time by doing just one warm-up set (or even 0). Here's how:
Tap Settings (bottom bar)
Scroll down to Sets
Next to Warm-up sets, enter 1 (or 0)
Tap Save
You can also customise those at the exercise level by tapping More and Settings next to any exercise during any workout.
All the best,
Carl