It’s a set that you should do when you start an exercise for the first time.
Warming up to challenging weights
- The weigh uses should feel incredibly light. You should feel like you can easily do 10+ reps.
- Do about 5-10 reps with this weight and try to get your technique spot-on every time.
- Rest for 1-2 minutes.
- Add weight to the bar that you think will still be doable in the range 5-10 reps.
- Repeat.
- If you overshoot and it’s tough for 2-5 reps, rest again and decrease the weight.
- At some point you’ll do your first set of 5-10 that’s challenging. If so, stop right there, write down the weight you are using and how many reps you stopped at, and move onto the next exercise.