Finding your 1RM is its own workout?

[eminenz2]

In finding your 1RM, should you have a list of all the different exercises you will be doing in the series and then just go through them one by one and find out what your 1RM is for each one?

And then that would be your workout for the day?

Thanks!

Susan L.G.

 

[eminenz2]

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[kathryn]

I would do a warm-up (consisting of movement to raise the body temperature--indicated by beginning to sweat--and some gradually-increasing ROM moves to get synovial fluid moving in the joints). Then starting with the largest muscles groups to smallest, do a 1RM test for all exercises, with about a 3-minute recovery time between exercises/body parts (I assume one does a 1RM test for just main exercises for each body part: ie: bench press for chest, straight bicep curls for biceps, etc.).

After you're done testing your 1RM, you could do a weight workout or cardio workout, IMO.