The Secrets Of Supersets

Many people ask me what is a superset and my inbox is full of them to prove it. With this in mind I'm going to explain to you what one is and hopefully I won't get as many emails in the future. Not that I don't enjoy answering peoples questions because believe me I do, it becomes quite tedious when the same question is asked day in day out in the many emails I receive.

Basically a superset is a change of exercise with little or no rest in between sets. So.... say that I have been doing a set of 8 reps dumbbell bench presses then I immediately switch to split dumbbell squats for example, this is a superset, it's as simple as that. And all you do after you have done that is repeat the same again with a rest after the dumbbell split squat and so on until you have completed you usual number of reps and sets.

Using supersets really gets your bodies metabolism moving and decreases the time in which it takes for your workout because of the use of many body groups at the same time. It's my experience that it is best to use switch between the lower body groups and the higher body groups on these supersets so it does not effect your lifting potential on each group.