Fantastic help Phil. Thank you. I never liked the percentage system, this makes a lot more sense, and also ties in well with you ‘always use the biggest plate possible method’. Thanks again mate. Keep up these great videos.
You're welcome, Travis. I've covered some of this in another comment thread on this video, but I thought it might be worth re-mentioning - we use a percentage system for our newer lifters (similar to the one Grant Broggi covers in this SS video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-s5hpE9wYka4.html) because it's one less thing for them to think about - they just walk over to the chart (which we have up on the wall), write down their warm-up weights and reps, and get to lifting. But at the same time, we also tell these new lifters that we're going to start moving away from the chart in a month or two (once they're not thinking about so many other things). Percentages tend to make things a bit simpler and quicker at first, but in the long run, the method covered in this video is simpler and faster once you gain some experience.
Thought I have seen all the videos, until I saw this one. This makes a lot of sense for me, and I have sort of been following this, but seeing this and the logic makes so much sense. I have been totaling up the weight of a workout for different types of lifts as a measure of "work." A tthis time about 7500 total #s seems like a moderate w/o. What does TS&C think about this as a measure of work?
Hey there Eric! For your last warm-up, you'll probably want to hit a single that's about 5-10% below your planned 1RM attempt. Andy Baker has a great video that talks about this process: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ho4LzMmX58Y.html. And yes, I realize that I was adamant that people not use percentages in their warm-ups :-) Percentages can be useful and appropriate at times - it's just that I don't want people to be tied down to them for most of their warm-up process when there is a simpler way.
