New YouTube video: Warm Up Sets

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

Actually a very important topic based on how many people mess this up: How To Properly Warm Up - YouTube

[DavidCC]

Good stuff. Really appreciate the "How To" videos.

[Rasmus Bengtsen]

Great video. I somehow can't help being impressed with the size of those gunz.

Really looking forward to the second part. I've never tried maxing out.

(I submitted a thread quite a few days ago, has it been lost in the warp, or maybe you just haven't gotten around to it yet?)

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

I answered some more today. Maybe got to it?? Yeah, a lot of questions get lost. I try to answer at least 2-3 per day, but sometimes there will be tons of new questions and I can't get to them all. So I get to what I can and occasionally some threads will go unanswered.

[Kevin Lee]

I somehow can't help being impressed with the size of those gunz.

Andy needs to do some videos on how he built up those things.
My wife teases me about my flat biceps. I hate it.

[Taylor Grayson]

Can't believe anyone is doing 9 warmup sets.

My spreadsheet starts me off (after the bar) at 50% of the workset weight, then adds 20% of the difference until the workset weight.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

So a 500 lb squatter would go 45 x 5 then 250 x 5? Bad formula.

[Andy Baker (KSC)]

[QUOTE=Kevin Lee;1558814]Andy needs to do some videos on how he built up those things.
My wife teases me about my flat biceps. I hate it.[/QUOT

Curls?

[Taylor Grayson]

So a 500 lb squatter would go 45 x 5 then 250 x 5? Bad formula.

Wendler's recommendation is 40%, which would put that lifter at 200. Do you think that's too much?

[Kevin Lee]

My arms have been the same size (within 1/4") for a year and in that time I've added about 50% to my curling strength, pressing and benching strength as well. Chins are the same (at only 3) bit I've added ~45lbs of body weight.
I can do barbell curls, dumbbell curls, drop sets, cable curls, 21's and preacher curls all in the same workout and my biceps might be a little bit sore the next day.
Recently I started trying to simply LP my barbell curls. 3-5 sets of 5 reps. 2.5 lbs per week. Followed by 3 sets of dumbbell hammer/concentration/whatever curls. Then there's upper back day a few days later but no specific biceps work there.
Not sure what else to do. I've done curls 1x per week, 2x per week and up to 4x per week. Didn't seem to make a difference. I. Hoping now that a steady LP then maybe an 8-5-2 or some other progression will just help them get really strong and if they're stronger then it'll be easier to make them bigger.