Our trainers get asked all the time about how clients can achieve better results in a more time-efficient way to fit people’s lifestyles.

Here’s another tip that’ll make a huge difference: It’s another Intensity Technique you may have heard of, called a Super Set. A super set is taking 2 or 3 exercises and doing them back-to-back. It can be for the same body part or for a different body part.

For example, most people like to Super Set biceps and triceps when performing an arm workout. Do a set of barbell curls, and when finished with your set, move to the cable system and do a set of tricep pushdowns. Then you’d go back and forth, (and here’s the key) with no rest whatsoever, for the duration of your workout.

What this does: You’re engorging the muscle with blood, you are taxing your cardiovascular system, and when you are working an opposing muscle group, you actually get at least a 10% muscle gain in the opposing muscle.

For instance, this is a very popular technique for power lifters: doing a set of pull downs right before they do their chest press because they gain that extra strength by engaging the back muscles first.

Super Sets can be a very useful tool in your workout. Try it this week, and let me know the results!

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