The BEST Bench Press Warm Up Routine

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The Wenning Warm-Ups are a combination of 3 exercises performed for 3-4 rounds prior to your lift that help you enhance movement technique and prime 2 "weak links." Today you'll learn from ‪@mattwenning2164‬ and ‪@VaughnWeightlifting‬
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Research
Rep Ranges
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Reduce injury
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@Real_Matt Ай бұрын

1) 00:43 - single arm bench press 2) 1:46 - prone arm raise - make sure shoulders don't roll forward - 20-25 reps 3) 2:20 - tricep push down cross body

@antho2935 9 ай бұрын

This was an incredible warmup before chest day. Not a single nagging shoulder issue. I'm hooked.

@brandimuetze Жыл бұрын

Matt Wenning knows what's up! Wenning Warmups are essential. Great video.

@ShreddingBliss Жыл бұрын

I’ve learned so much from Matt. Been doing Wenning warmups the last 6 months. Depends on what you are doing, but at best it can take 7:30min but usually 9-10 minutes and then you’re ready to smash your workout

@brianmilner9837 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, gentlemen, for sharing your knowledge and experience.

@Fronz05 Жыл бұрын

Love your videos! I'm able to put the instruction into practice and see progress. Much appreciated!

@mrsbootsworkouts Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the advice! Muscle balance is so important in avoiding injuries, injuries are awful, and they really put you out of the game. guys are very impressive, progressive overload is the key!

@Jeffrey_B_1977 Жыл бұрын

lifting injuries are too common unfortunately

@emiliox210 Жыл бұрын

1M subs! You couldn’t be more deserving!

@CombatArtistry 8 ай бұрын

exactly what i needed, ty

@urzytkowy27 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Great stuff! 😁

@SquatUniversity Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@ebwhite21 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your videos! Could you please do one of fixing side hip pain from kicking the bag or kickboxing in general?

@zikomo8913 Жыл бұрын

Wow, love this discussion oriented video, maybe do more of these or start a podcast?

@TripleAAA787 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on 1 million subs.

@petrmoravec1992 6 ай бұрын

Damn, I like these videos so much that right after i see some tips or something, i try it right away.

@joserobles8477 6 ай бұрын

Whole ass workout before the workout. Lets see how it goes.

@jaronbridges4784 6 ай бұрын

This is gold

@prodbyalyseo1450 Жыл бұрын

Can you please make a video on how to recover from AC shoulder joint separation. Please, thank you

@konnor9577 Жыл бұрын

Is there a specific protocol for these screening and corrective exercises you show in the videos? Where can someone learn this? I was wandering if it's the same as the FMS and SFMA screening tools.

@daltonmadden7982 Жыл бұрын

Should I do the band joint mobilization and banded clamshell and other exercises for my hip pain everyday, or should I only do them as a warmup on my leg training days

@ozzy6162 Жыл бұрын

Another great video - useful warm-ups and other recommendations even for casual gym goers like myself.

@loganmoy5093 Жыл бұрын

Can you please make a video on how to fix elbow/fore arm pain while benching? Feels weaker than my other arm.

@perpetualfond 3 ай бұрын

@nathantesfa2911 Жыл бұрын

God BLESS YOU

@marcarphd Жыл бұрын

I need a tutorial on how to properly do single leg "Skater Squats" with dumbbells. Thanks.

@spgstriker Жыл бұрын

As I understand, the recommendation for footwear is to eventually make the change to wearing something with a natural toe-box and minimal padding. But for the time being I was wondering: as someone who wears Vans as my weightlifting shoe and my everyday shoe, when I do cardio should I be switching to a running shoe or staying in the same ones I wear for everything else? I want to know what I can be doing right now without having to make any significant purchases, to save my feet, ankles, knees, and hips. Love the videos and instructions.

@Jack_Mehoff 8 ай бұрын

Probably too late since your comment was 5 months ago, but definitely don’t run in Vans. Eliptical, stationary bike, or similar (low/no impact) exercises are fine in Vans.

@druidzrok 6 ай бұрын

also late but I'd 100% rather run barefoot than in vans, they will kill your feet

@abhinav9526 Жыл бұрын

I have something snapping in my left elbow while doing overhead tricep extensions. What should I do?

@kku6857 Жыл бұрын

Could you do exercises for golfer's elbow? I cannot lift since September nothing works😢

@robertchalfant7233 Жыл бұрын

All the WENNING warm ups are essential to all lifters especially older lifters like myself 👍🏼

@antho2935 9 ай бұрын

Never heard of these before. As a older-ish man dipping his toes into the 40yo pool, I throughly enjoyed this. Joint have not felt this good after a chest day in the longest. I'll for sure be looking into more of this method!

@cesargamtengh3418 Жыл бұрын

Hey,i know this out of topic but.. does anyone know how to rehab after ATFL tear? because the doctor tells me that i must completely rest from sports for like 3 months,and dont move my ankle as much as i can please help me if you guys know how to deal with this injury,and thanks..

@savagetheentertainer Жыл бұрын

All of the ego lifters will think this is too much 😂

@gageevans2743 Жыл бұрын

What if i actually messed up my elbow while bench pressing? If I try and bench over 225 or 60lb dumbbell my left tricep gives out. Max is 275.

@Inception109 Жыл бұрын

My right hip feels tight. My right leg has become shorter because of that. I feel tightness in my hips. When i do pigeon strech, it get better for 15 minutes, but after sometime it get back to how it was before ( tight and short). My shoulder tilted towards right, where i have shorter leg. And i feel pain in a nerve in my right leg as well. I don't know what to do. Please help

@aetherblackbolt1301 Жыл бұрын

These Warmups seem a bit too advanced for most viewers. For a 40+ year old elite lifter who has been training for 10+ years, I can understand them having the baseline strength and work capacity to do 100 light reps per exercise and have the energy to do heavy sets. They also need to prepare their muscles much more. For intermediate lifters, which I'm guessing are most of your viewers including me, that's too much for our work capacity, and our baseline strength would need 5lbs weights or lighter. And we're young enough to not need extensive prep. This video is still great though. As always we can modify the warm up to suit our abilities. I do 25 reps instead of 100 (5x5) for some other videos or do Bodyweight only, or if it's a single limb I might do an easier version using both limbs.

@jtg753 Жыл бұрын

Will you be doing this for Overhead press, squat, and deadlift?

@annie_sillycat Жыл бұрын

There's already one for deadlift and squat!

@cos4497 Жыл бұрын

The thumbnail equation is wrong, is a^2+b^2=c^2

@chillagorilla Жыл бұрын

Would love to hear your thoughts on rucking and claims of posture improvement from carrying load on your back

@OrenUrbach Жыл бұрын

Don't you think such a long warmup can make the muscles tired and weaker when approaching the heavy weight?

@calebpfannkuch1058 Жыл бұрын

That’s partially the point, in other videos Matt explains how he uses the warmups as a way to increase work capacity of lagging areas, this in combination with warming up the muscles used for a core lift keeps the weaknesses minimal and rotating so you don’t have overuse injuries in one specific area.

@danagadberry5129 Жыл бұрын

@@calebpfannkuch1058 Dumbells?

@OrenUrbach Жыл бұрын

@@calebpfannkuch1058 I see what your'e saying, but doing this many reps even with a light weight will take like 10 minutes and only then you start the pyramid climbing up to the working weight of the exercise. So you'll lift less weight than you potentially could

@calebpfannkuch1058 Жыл бұрын

@@danagadberry5129 are you asking about them using the dumbbells?

@carlgibson7850 Жыл бұрын

He isn't suggesting you put this kind of volume in prior to a 1-rep max. What's your goal? To be as strong as you can be today? Or in 6 months? A year? 5 years? The biggest component to being strong is not getting injured. This approach works on weaknesses, imbalances, and primes you for the heavy compound you are doing that day. In turn, you will be less likely to get injured, bring up weak points, and stronger in the long run because of it.

@zkr3419 Жыл бұрын

Hi, great video, I bought some books they are super interesting. Could you make a video on knee hyperextension And for how the flat feet too it would be cool

@rupamsarma3248 3 ай бұрын

I think this is obviously good advice but I have to skip work or college to complete this kind of a workout 🙂 Can anyone please explain to me the time management required for this ??

@alexd1139 Жыл бұрын

Where do I get the upsidedown kettlebelt😂

@moa3821 Жыл бұрын

thats alot of volume perhaps applicable to world class benchers

@SquatUniversity Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a lot of volume but something Matt has found valuable not only for world class benchers but also general population for increasing work capacity and general physical fitness in a short amount of time.

@gnomenorthofthewall1982 Жыл бұрын

Great video series! But one question, how should I warmup if I do all three, squat/DL/bench in the same session? (Obviously I'm not a competing, just normal average gym goer...)

@Jwiznat Жыл бұрын

not sure why you’d want to do all 3 on the same day… but in my opinion do your squats and deadlifts first (this channel has good warmups for those) and then go straight into bench, as your entire posterior chain will be more than warmed up. but i wouldn’t do all 3 in the same session if you want to get the most out of each exercise.

@calebpfannkuch1058 Жыл бұрын

You would have have to be smart with your planning. Squat and deadlift use almost the exact same muscles. For squat and deadlift you want your shoulders and back to be “tight” so pushing lots of blood there isn’t optimal. For the first warm up of your workout you’d wanna do whats lagging for you. Thing like hamstring and low back builders are always good (reverse hypertensions, dumbbell good mornings and squats are good) then you wanna be smart with loading. Trying to hit 1RMs in everything has to be a planned occurrence maybe 1-4 times a year.

@calebpfannkuch1058 Жыл бұрын

Then you’d need to move to your upper warm up and then you bench workout

@ez6791 Жыл бұрын

how did you know it was my bench day

@paulpb9138 5 күн бұрын

This is the real deal. You cannot shoot a cannon out of a canoe - and that is a fact.

@Siddhartha02 Жыл бұрын

So first warm up exercise, 100 reps on left arm, 100 reps on right arm. Second exercise 100 reps and then third exercise 100 reps right arm, 100 reps left arm. So you gonna do 500 reps warmup before you even start your real workout...

@wolfpackpete6408 Жыл бұрын

That's muscle activation right there

@cyclist5000 Жыл бұрын

The gym employees after you’ve been there for two hours: looks like you had a great workout! Nah I’m just finishing my warm-ups. I had to reduce my job to part time in order to fit in my workouts with this new warm-up routine.

@blacksailsbarbell5247 Жыл бұрын

It takes less than 10-12 minutes 🤝🏻

@calebpfannkuch1058 Жыл бұрын

That’s only if you have a significant imbalance. In other video Matt give amazing examples of how to attack different weaknesses. If you bench and have balance issues while benching or the bar shifting that’s when you’d do more work on the particular side.

@roblane-50yearoldpowerlift18 Жыл бұрын

@@blacksailsbarbell5247 12 minutes x 60 seconds is 720 seconds. So you are doing 500 reps in 720 seconds.

@ThomDartt Жыл бұрын

300 reps to warm up??? Ridiculous.

@CankleCankle Жыл бұрын

Not ridiculous, maybe you’re just not dedicated to improving and being healthy. If you want to be encouraged to rush into your main lift and max out, you’re probably on the wrong KZfaq page.

@TP-ot7lp Жыл бұрын

@@CankleCankle i think warm up depends drom person to person, dr. andy explained it very well in huberman's podcast, someone would need more time to warm up someone less

@Hater20X Жыл бұрын

@@CankleCankle no he's right. I'd be OK doing 60-80 reps to warm up. But 300. Get thr fuck outa here.

@CankleCankle Жыл бұрын

@@TP-ot7lp right, but this method is more than just warming up, it’s building work capacity and conditioning. You will find that after weeks and months of implementing this method and then pulling it out, your strength on your main lift will increase. So, you’d do the “wenning warmup” for a period of time then pull it out for a peaking block.

@Khoadzai 10 ай бұрын

Nah, i am just doing a few sets of light weight to get a mini pump and then hop right onto my working weight, these warm ups are way to time comsuming

@partisan6989 5 ай бұрын

Matt=cool grandpa

@partisan6989 5 ай бұрын

Positive connotation^

@vvoof2601 4 ай бұрын

No one hurts their elbow on bench press...and then there's me.

@snakeace0 Жыл бұрын

Im sorry but 4 sets of 20-25 reps as a warmup just for triceps activation? Pretty sure 1-2 sets would be enough...

@rickjames8087 Жыл бұрын

I agree

@youtubesucks8024 Жыл бұрын

Idk what to think. This guy (MW) is a decorated lifter and insanely strong. He must know something. But these warmups do seem ridiculous. So idk man.

@snakeace0 Жыл бұрын

@@youtubesucks8024 Yeah but he is not the only accomplished lifter, and others who were arguably more successfull did not do 500 reps as a warmup... Ed Coan for example swears by slow 10 second repitions and a normal warmup, and he never injured himself.

@nazahmed8164 Жыл бұрын

I attended a bench seminar by Matt Wenning back in 2017, it was an incredible experience. The high volume warmup is intended for activation and conditioning for general physical preparedness (GPP). I barely made it through the warmup, which revealed how poor my fitness was at that point. Since then, I've incorporated the principles I learned from Wenning and seen tremendous progress. I wished I had learned it sooner since it optimizes performance and long-term health.

@heavyrain5949 Жыл бұрын

@@youtubesucks8024 Elite lifters need to really prime their muscles as they move a lot of weight. I personally also do much better after an extensive warm up session. For most folks, just doing some push-ups will do.

@johndonovan5521 Жыл бұрын

Seeing Matt wearing shoes instead of flipflops is so odd😅

@Skretting91 Жыл бұрын

Everytime i bench, even if its just the bar. Im left with alot of pain going down into myshoulder blade and into the side of my neck. Im also fatigued and brainfogged for days after.... IVe been working out for 13 years. Please help

@usofliberty Жыл бұрын

that volume is too high, 4 sets of 20-25 reps on 3 different exercises... then you look at the clock and realize it's time to get to work and you never did a single bench press. Lesson learned, if you want to get a better bench, quit your job?

@TP-ot7lp Жыл бұрын

just do as much warmo up as you need to get yourself ready for work:)

@MrSimonsonLifts 4 ай бұрын

If you’re serious about lifting you make time 👍