Sal Di Stefano

Yeah.

And it is a skill that you can lose.

I mean, I guess in life you don't necessarily need it.

Like we did, you know, a thousand years ago, but the ability to throw without hurting yourself has lots of carry over to shoulder health, um, uh, and wrist health and stuff like that.

A warm-up should, the goal of a warm-up, the bar of the bottom bar is to prevent injury.

But if you go up a level higher, a warm-up should allow you to perform the exercise you're going to do smooth.

Good mobility, connection, strength, like get into it.

Yeah.

If I'm doing similar exercises back to back, I don't need to keep warming up.

In other words, if I'm going to work out my legs and my first exercise is squats, I'm going to need to do some priming to get myself set up to be able to squat properly.

But after that, I can go into lunges and I can go into Bulgarians without having to do a warmup each time.

But if I'm doing totally different exercises, like if I'm doing squats and then the next exercise, let's say it's an overhead press, I may need to do some priming for that movement pattern, I would say.

The level of priming and warmup that you need to do

Depends on the individual.

Really skilled lifters, people who have good technique and form, have been working out a while, oftentimes can warm up by doing a set or two of the exercise they're about to do.

Yeah.

They know how to adjust.

They know what to squeeze and how to tighten and get into position.

But oftentimes with people who don't have a lot of experience, they have to do different things.

priming exercises because you know they don't know how to pull their shoulders back on the bench press properly so we got to do something that does that first or they don't know how to get the ankle mobility right uh on a squat with the warm-up with it's just a squat so i have to do other exercises so a lot of this depends this is why we created maps prime so maps prime we have a program that you go in you take a few tests and then it points based off of how you do the test it points you in directions that individualize what your priming looks like