Episode 10
010 Warming up - what does it really achieve?
Hypertrophy Past and Present · Chris Beardsley and Jake Doleschal
July 28, 20251h 13m
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (media.transistor.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
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
Topics
hypertrophybodybuildingmuscle growthstimulating repsnatural bodybuildingresistance trainingsilver eraexercise sciencetraining frequencypre-steroid bodybuildingJake DoleschalChris Beardsley