Ep. 211 - How To Maximise Strength & Minimise Injury Through Effective Warm Up

Welcome back to RNT Fitness Radio and today we start off by discussing one of the biggest mistakes we all made earlier in our training careers: excessive warm ups. I personally used to spend up to 45 minutes foam rolling, stretching and all sorts, before I’d even lift a weight, and on this episode, we discuss the best strategies to effectively and efficiently warm up so you can maximise strength, mind-muscle connection and the reason why most warm up, to minimise injury.

“Strike a balance and perform at your best.”

- Ed Pilkington   Timestamps:

00:00 – Intro

00:05 – The complete guide to warm up 

02:55 – Convincing information online 

06:00 – Human need for quick fix 

08:50 – Focusing on the wrong things 

10:30 – How Ivan and Ed warm up 

17:20 – Akash’s best warm up  

20:24 – Benefits of warm up sets 

23:00 – Treadmill as a worse way to warm up 

26:30 – Things to pay attention to 

28:30 – Fatigue brought by deadlifts  

30:40 – Grip training 

33:10 – Strength balance to perform at best 

35:18 – Placebo 

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