Superset??

[Shaz]

Re the planned upper body video, how do supersets work? I know that two excercises are done back to back, but do you combine 2 exercises for the same or different body part? If it's different body parts, do you combine large body parts (eg chest and back), or one large and one small (eg chest and triceps)?

Sharon.

 

[Connie1]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Aug-16-02 AT 01:57PM (Est)[/font][p]I am not Cathe, but here's one answer-
All the supersets I have seen are 2 or 3 exercises that work nearly the same body parts, such as shoulders (lateral, then anterior, then posterior) or biceps and shoulders (curls, then O-H presses). I think they're just any two or more exercises that are safe and convenient to combine, just for a change of pace.

 

[kathryn]

Another way of supersetting is to do an isolation move (which focus on one muscle group and have movement at only one join, such as flyes for the chest, which work only the chest muscle; or triceps kickbacks for triceps) followed by compound exercises (multi-joint exercises that include more than one muscle group, such as bench presses for the chest, which incorporate the shoulders and triceps; or close grip presses for triceps, which also incorporate the chest and the shoulders). The muscle is pre-exhausted by the isolation move, but you continue to work it using other muscles to help by doing the compound move.

A third way of supersetting is alternating between push and pull moves (ie: chest press followed immediately by a back row).