Weigth Lifting Warmups: General, Specific and Acclimation 
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| Using too much muscle rub before a workout, or using it over too wide an area can cause annoying and uncomfortable sweating (excessive) and a feeling of being overheated. Use sparingly and let the act of massaging in the rub aid you rather than too much. Tip Credibility: 58 (Best Tip!) |
| Although the best general warm-up consists of mobility movements if you do choose to stick with a "cardio" warm-up use an exercise that has a similar range of motion. An elliptical machine, for instance, would be a better choice than a treadmill. Tip Credibility: 55 |
| Static stretching is not warming up. Never perform prolonged static or passive stretching pre-workout. Tip Credibility: 50 |
| Static stretching pre-workout can temporarily sap your strength and affect your coordination. Dynamic stretching does not have this effect. Tip Credibility: 50 |
| Muscle rubs such as tiger balm products and certain horse linaments can be use to help trouble joints like shoulders, knees, and wrists warm up before a hard strength workout. But do NOT wrap an area that you have used a rub on! Tip Credibility: 50 |
| WARM UPS for lifting consists of three parts. The general warm up to mobilize/warm the body. The specific warm up for the exercise. And the acclimation to become "used" to the heavy weight AFTER you are warmed up. This will result in more weight lifted. Tip Credibility: 6 |
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