010 Warming up - what does it really achieve?
Hypertrophy Past and Present - A podcast by Chris Beardsley and Jake Doleschal - Sundays
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake Doleschal and Chris Beardsley unpack the very first York Barbell course, discussing its warm-up approach and how it compares to other silver era routines.The second half of the episode zooms out to explore warm-ups more broadly, what they actually do (and don’t do), whether they affect hypertrophy, and why most warm-up advice might be misguided.Key topics:The three physiological effects of warming up: temperature, PAP, and PAPEWhy most common warm-up routines may do nothing for hypertrophy or injury preventionHow to structure warm-ups that actually do something
