What is going on guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Eric Roberts

Fitness Podcast. I hope you are doing well. In this

episode we got a Q&A and we're just going to dive right into it and I'm

actually excited to start with the first question. I wondered this

question for a very long time as well.

Kami V8 on from my Instagram story says, why does the first set often feel harder than the second set at a heavier weight?

And so let's say for example, like you are doing a set of five reps on squats and you know you first get to like you know a

hundred pounds and you're like holy shit this is fucking heavy but then like the

next set you add five or ten pounds and you're like oh damn like okay this is

still heavy but it's like it's much more doable than the first set why is that?

Well there could be a couple of reasons one of the main ones though is, well it all comes back to the same thing which is you're probably just not warming up correctly and you're either doing one of two things.

Either you're not doing enough warm-up sets, you're not doing proper warm-up sets.

So let's say enough warm-up sets.

If let's say, again, I'll use the example of just,

if I'm gonna go ahead and bench press like,

you know, a 100 pound dumbbells, right?

If I'm doing that, my first warm-up set

is probably gonna be, let's say, probably 40 pounds, 35, 40 pounds,

just for like four, five reps, just to kind of like get the groove of the movement, like kind of, you know, warm up my central nervous system to that

particular movement and that particular muscle because it, remember, every single movement

is a skill. It's almost like in baseball if you were going to throw a fastball versus throwing a curve ball

versus throwing a slider.

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