The last few weeks, I’ve been sharing insights from our training team that clients have found to be successful tips at increasing results in the same amount of time, making workouts way more efficient. Here’s another one:

A Giant Set is a term that describes a process very similar to what is often called circuit training. This is an Intensity Technique where you pick 4, 5, or even 6 exercises to do in a row. We divide Giant Sets into two skill levels: beginner/intermediate, and the advanced.

For the beginner/intermediate person, you should pick one exercise for each body part. For instance, you can pick a chest exercise, an arm exercise, one for shoulders, one for quads, one for hamstrings, and one for abs.

Then focus on doing them in a complete circuit without stopping, and take 30 seconds at the end to rest. Then repeat the circuit 3, 4, or 5 times.

For an advanced person, pick a number of exercises and do a Giant Set inside of the same body part. Here’s what that looks like with our chest exercises:

Pick 6 exercises. For instance, I like the combination of incline chest press, decline chest press, flat chest press, incline fly, decline fly, and cable cross over.

Do those consecutively and sequentially with no rest in-between, resting 30-40 seconds at the end.  Then repeat that same Giant Set 3, 4, or 5 times.

The main difference between the beginner/intermediate person and the advanced person is that the beginner/intermediate person is spreading stress throughout the entire body. The advanced person should have a better nutrition system in place, their body needs more to grow, and they can handle more stress as well. This is why the advanced person can keep their Giant Set inside the same body part.

Try it this week…you’ll be amazed at the results! Let me know how it goes.

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