15/05/2026
4 Tips for Optimising Your Warm Up Sets
1) BIG WEIGHT JUMPS BEFORE SMALL JUMPS
🔹Start light and prioritise bigger jumps early on
🔹 The biggest jump in weight should be between warm up 1 and warm up 2
🔹 Keep your smallest weight jumps for when you are closest towards your top end
2) MAKE EVERY REP LOOK THE SAME
🔹Treat your warm ups as an important part of the workout and not just a stepping stone to your working sets
🔹Build consistency early on. Set a standard for tempo and range of motion and stick to this throughout
🔹 If you create these habits, your working sets should look virtually identical to your warm ups, just slower
3) REPS ARE DECREASING
🔹 You want to get exposed to different weights as you build up but don’t want to fatigue yourself. If you’re hitting 12 reps every warm up set, you’ll have no energy left by the time you get to your working sets
🔹 Try to decrease by a couple of reps each set leading up to your working sets
🔹 Example: For a 90kg working set, I would do beforehand - 8 reps (Bar), 5 reps (60kg), 2 reps (80kg)
4) REST IS INCREASING
🔹 A warm up is just that, a warm up. In the early sets, you don’t really need to be taking much of a break between the sets
🔹 If you’re tight on time, don’t take too long on the warm ups and leave no time to rest effectively between your working sets
🔹 Early on, the time it takes to load the bar is normally sufficient, then as you get closer to your working weight you can increase the rest time slightly
