010 Warming up - what does it really achieve?

Update: 2025-07-28

Description

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 PAPE
Why most common warm-up routines may do nothing for hypertrophy or injury prevention
How to structure warm-ups that actually do something

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