
Originally Posted by
Chad B
I was getting lots of injuries till I started warming up the way the guy from AST(Jeff Willits) does it. It is called the MAX-OT warm-up. I’m just saying because it seems like you hurt yourself a lot. It worked for me, went from injury every couple weeks to hardly ever having them!
Say 185 is your max, 4-6 reps failure:
Barbell only 12 reps 2 sets-----gets blood to muscle.
85 pounds 6 reps 1 set
105 pounds 1 rep slow negative----gets muscle ready for more weight, escalating
125 1 rep slow negative----gets muscle ready for more weight, escalating
145 1rep slow negative----gets muscle ready for more weight, escalating
165 1 rep slow negative----gets muscle ready for more weight, escalating
185 3 or however much you plan on doing, sets all to failure
This is basically the principle of it, using muscle memory and getting them ready to handle heavy weight. When we pick up heavy weight and your muscle has not worked up to it we have more chance of injury.
Anyway this has worked for me going from injury to injury to hardly ever having them!