MyFitCoach currently does not offer tracking for warm-up sets or specific warm-up routines. However, you can enable the warm-up notes in the app to receive corresponding recommendations before each workout.
Here's how to activate warm-up instructions:
Go to the Training tab > 3-dot menu at the top > Training settings.
Enable "Warm-up hints" there.
Our warm-up recommendations:
The purpose of warming up is to optimally prepare you for the upcoming workout, optimize your performance, and minimize your risk of injury.
General Warm-Up (not strictly necessary):
5-8 minutes of light endurance/cardio training before starting the first exercise.
Specific Warm-Up (necessary):
Before each exercise, perform 1-3 warm-up sets with light and increasing weight. These sets are not tracked. The goal is to get into the movement and get blood flowing to the target muscle. When training the upper body, it makes sense to warm up the rotator cuff beforehand.
Example:
If you're aiming to start your first working set of bench press with 225 lbs × 10 reps, you could warm up as follows:
90 lbs × 10 reps
130 lbs × 8 reps
175 lbs × 6 reps
Recommendations:
Compound exercises: 2-3 warm-up sets
Isolation exercises: 1 warm-up set
If you're doing multiple exercises for the same target muscle, you don't have to do 2-3 warm-up sets each time. Usually, one warm-up set is enough.
We want to hear your opinion! If you want to share with us how we should implement warm-up in the app, please let us know. We appreciate your feedback and work hard to make MyFitCoach even better.
If you have any further questions or suggestions, please send us an email at support@myfitcoach.com.