Social media are often saturated with bodybuilders who cancel their top sets with furious intensity, but there is not so much attention to how the best competitors prepare their bodies for lifting us. That is why the recent Instagram post of Jordan Hutchinson explains why he does not immediately go to squats, and how he prepares his body for heavy repetitions, offers such a valuable lesson.
In episode 245 of The threatening podcast“Milos Sarcev recently told Hutchinson that he has some of “the best quads in the company”. In the same show, the Olympia bound Bodybuilder host Dennis James and the gang told that he was no longer aimed at only heavy squats for his leg growth. Instead, Hutchinson explained that nowadays he is rather taking some weight and increases his time under tension. Now, in an IG post, he has explained his preferred process more detailed.
Jordan Hutchinson promotes warm-ups and pre-exhusts for heavy squats
“How long do we have to work to reach our work sets?” Hutchinson wondered while he was interviewed in the gym. “It takes forever,” he concluded. “I mean, I remember the days when I would just walk in the gym, would walk directly to the squat rack, (then sets of) 135, 225, 315, 405, 495 (pound), and that is all I would do,” reflects the IFBB Pro. “Now I have to corner my legs beforehand. I have to be more careful. If I do a ham curl, I can’t just go into my top set (or), I’m going to tear something.”
Hutchinson is not waiting for only 29 years old until he is over the hill before he follows a wise approach to training. But with his first Olympia that now beckons, his strategy is to stay in the game for a long time instead of a good time. “So we have to be more careful and work more volume. It is not a junk volume, but it is extra volume that we do to warm up our top sets,” he shared.
Hutchinson responded to his own video and further assumed that he does “a lot of feeder/warm -up sets” and “insulation movements touch” prior to his heavy connections such as squats. And you certainly can’t argue with his results. The big man won both the 2025 Tampa Pro and Texas Pro, and is now going to Sin City to make his MR Olympia debut.
“At this stage I really saw so much more advantage in my training to really praise my legs and get tons of blood in them with touching adductors, butter curls and leg extensions before they go into a squat pattern,” Hutchinson explained. “I think it is very important in the early stages of trying to build muscles, and especially large legs, to be intense to be strength under the bar, but there is a point where you have to shift and ensure that you do the most for the muscle with the least damage to the joints. Lonevant is because building a lot of muscles takes time!”
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