next week im gonna go for about 3 weeks doing my first excersizes with supersets and drop-set my last one. The work-outs will be very short and intense. just wanna know how long i should rest in-between my supersets.
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Supersets
The entire idea behind supersets are that you are doing them basically one right after another. You don't get a break until you have finished one set of each station you are doing supersets on. I do tend to make my break after each set of supers slightly longer than a rest after a typical one station set. For example I would rest 45 seconds after a typical one set exercise. I would rest around 60 - 75 seconds after a superset. This includes doing two workouts for the same body part as well as for separate body parts imo.
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Depends what you're doing
supersetting the same muscle (which i don't like at all) you aren't meant to rest much at all - just like a dropset where the only time should be in lowering the weight
supersetting opposite muscles you can do both IMO, do the other set straight away (doing this for arms is also a great forearm workout) or rest in between each alternating set (Which i like to do for my strength work).
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same muscle group.
superset is supposed to be opposing muscle group. the meaning has been somewhat blurred from weiders original definition over the years to now just mean an exercise done right after another.
you'd be better off hitting an isolation movement such as a db fly, cable crossover, or tricep extension instead of bench press followed with incline press.
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