Supersets are a popular weight lifting technique among many who are looking to kickstart a stalled weight lifting routine and add more variety into their program. They are a slightly more advanced principle to use so it’s going to be best if you have already have a fairly decent weight lifting background behind you.
Basically what a superset consists of is two exercises that are put back to back that you will perform with little or no rest in between. Usually the muscle groups that are chosen for something like this will be antagonist and agonist pairings, meaning they directly oppose each other.
Good examples of this would be biceps and triceps, hamstrings and quadriceps and your chest and back.
So using biceps and triceps as an example, first you would do a set of bicep curls, then immediately after you completed them you would move into a set of tricep kickbacks. After you were finished that set then you would take a short rest period before beginning another set.
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