Warming up for squats?

[rmartinez13]

How do you warm up when you are going to do squats. Tell me the stretches you use to warm up or how many warm up sets you do and at what weight.

[Transformer01]

Wouldnt you just do a warm up set of squats with just the bar and no weight on it?

[Joel-Boyd]

How do you warm up when you are going to do squats. Tell me the stretches you use to warm up or how many warm up sets you do and at what weight.

Depends on how much you can lift. For someone like myself, I warmup with 135lb's for 10 because I end on 315 for 8. So it pretty much depends on how much you can squat, and whatever really works for you.

[NJMscle]

I warm up with 135 for 8 or how many I feel reps

[UCFBuilder]

i normally stretch for about 10 mins before i even leave for the gym..the when i get there i stretch for another few mins

since i squat in a 4X5 style..my first two are 135 and 225 so those basically my warm-up sets..then my next two are the heavy sets going all out

[Bon]

How do you warm up when you are going to do squats. Tell me the stretches you use to warm up or how many warm up sets you do and at what weight.

I do 3-4 sets of warm up squats.

i normally stretch for about 10 mins before i even leave for the gym..the when i get there i stretch for another few mins

since i squat in a 4X5 style..my first two are 135 and 225 so those basically my warm-up sets..then my next two are the heavy sets going all out

You count your warm up sets toward your total working sets..?

And why do you stretch that much prior to squats?

[omfgapolarbear]

It depends. I usually do a few sets of very very light (basically pointless weight) extensions and curls to get some blood into my knees, and then start warming up with squats. 135, 185, 225, then into working sets of triples and singles. If anything is tight, and often if its not, I foam roll both before and after training. If my hips are tight I'll do some band abductions to loosen then up.

[LankedOut]

You could do some hip flexibility stuff before hand if you really want but usually just starting off with a light weight and increasing it is all good.

[aempowerlifting]

How do you warm up when you are going to do squats. Tell me the stretches you use to warm up or how many warm up sets you do and at what weight.

This may be different because I'm still competing in powerlifting, but my warm-up goes like:
General Warm-Up
5 minutes stationary bike
agility & mobility drills (Joe Defranco's Agile 8)
extra hip flexor and groin stretching if I feel tight

Squats
135 x 5
135 x 5
225 x 5
315 x 1
365 x 1
405 x 1
425 x 1
...so on so forth

[LIVEStrong4Life]

I generally do a variety of different stretches for about 10 minutes. Then...

Ex) From my last squats for 3*5*255

1*5*45
1*5*135
1*5*185
1*3*205
1*2*225
Then go to my working sets. BTW my set of 1*5*45 is before I start stretching.

[IceyVeins]

i first jog for 5 mins, then stretch my hammys and hip flexors. Then i do 2 warm up sets with the bar, then 135 pounds atg. Really really helps with all that, def helps lift more and get lower

[The_Terrorist]

Jogging = bad

Stretching = weaker

Hamstrings does not = squat

[IceyVeins]

Jogging = bad

Stretching = weaker

Hamstrings does not = squat

were you talking to me lol, i jog to get the blood pumping, i stretch because im so damn unflexible, unless i stretch i cant even get parallel or atg

[Fearghas]

And why do you stretch that much prior to squats?

I would assume that is over all stretching.

[-=Zeus=-!]

Bar x 10

40% max x 5

50% max x 5

60% max x 3

Working sets

[stanzione1017]

Im currently in a 2 year class getting my AAI personal training cert, we learned NOT to stretch pre workout, only post workout.

However, before squats you want alot of blood in your legs because as you can imagine they will have alot of pressure on them, between moving some seriouse weight and getting blood in the muscle at the same time that could be messy..

Eigther do some realy realy light squats just to get a pump going, or i prefer to hop on the leg extension machine a couple sets not to failure, and then some hamstring curls.

Hope this helped!

[aempowerlifting]

Jogging = bad

Stretching = weaker

Hamstrings does not = squat

Technically stretching does make you weaker, however stretching also decreased your risk of injury which allows you to have a greater time-span of lifting without injury, leading to increased strength.

If your not using your hamstrings in a squat then you are doing it completely wrong. The main movers of your squat should be the glutes, hamstrings, and lower back. If your using your quads to flex the weight up your doing it wrong. You should be driving your butt through the squat, thrusting your hips.