Yeah, for your first compound exercise, I wouldn't worry at all about tempo. Worry more about weight. When you superset your flyes after your benching, that's the time to worry about tempo because it's important with that exercise.

For breathing, I personally prefer to take in a huge breath, hold it, unrack the bar and start my reps. I usually do 2-3 before I take in another huge breath and go again. If I'm really winded, I always take in and hold my breath after each rep. Same goes for squatting. For isolation exercises, that's when you can exhale for positive, inhale for negative.

For warmups, using "chest day" as an example, I would look at the "how to warm up" sticky at the top of the training forum. After you've warmed up, and did your first 5x5 exercises.. You do NOT need to re-warmup for your incline 5x5. Reason being, you've already warmed up!

My advice is to start off really conservative for the first week. You may have a much higher 5 x 5 than you'll need for this program after you include the supersets. So if your 5 x 5 for flat bench is 200 lbs, then I would probably try and use 150 and see how heavy that feels after the third or fourth set with the inclusion of supersetting flyes.

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