That is the warmup listed in the Max-OT articles. All this week, I applied the technique to my first sets of the day for each muscle group. Seemed to work okay. It's really tempting for those middle sets (3 and 1 rep) not to do more, but I'm sticking to the plan for right now.
So to answer your question, I would say "yes". Although I am not following their ab routine.
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