Make warm up sets great again

All my programs already have built in warms ups designed to prepare your body for exercise. These are very important not to skip over. In addition to this, its not a bad idea to do a warm-up set or two for a given exercise, specifically compound movements early in the workout where we're moving large amounts of weight in order to prevent injuries and for some neuromuscular preparedness.

In these instances, If you'd like to do a warm up set or two before your working sets, please just make sure they're true warm up sets and that they aren't going to hinder your performance on your working sets. While taken seriously in the way of form and execution, warm-up sets should mostly be easy and be very far from failure with an RIR of 6-8+. The exception to this may be a heavy rep or two with 90% of your working weight for large compound movements like back squats, etc.

Warm-up sets are most valuable at the beginning of a workout and are less necessary as the session progresses, especially for subsequent exercises where you're repeating movement patterns you've already done in the same workout.