Favorite exercises to superset??

[RussianBull]

What are your favorite exercises to superset? I only do supersets and giant sets throughout my workouts now.

For chest I really like flat bench with dips. For back I like pullups with seated rows. Also t-bar rows with deadlifts.

 

[TheOak84]

i thought a superset was when you work 2 muscles back to back, like benchpress then pullups.. no?

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Yeah I'm pretty sure you superset to work antagonist muscle groups.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

Yeah I'm pretty sure you superset to work antagonist muscle groups.

It can be done either way..sometimes i superset bi's and tri's..Damn i couldn't supersets deads with anything lol..calves are good i did this a.m. standing supersetted with seated calve raise..killer

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Oh, well now I know. Still, I prefer to do it with, as you said, Bis/Tris or something like that. Gives me a nice pump. Not to say that's all I want but, it does feel good sometimes.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

Oh, well now I know. Still, I prefer to do it with, as you said, Bis/Tris or something like that. Gives me a nice pump. Not to say that's all I want but, it does feel good sometimes.

it does doesnt it

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

i ususally superset smaller muscle groups- like incline curls w/BB curls or tri push-downs w/dips.

 

[guldukat]

What are your favorite exercises to superset? I only do supersets and giant sets throughout my workouts now.

For chest I really like flat bench with dips. For back I like pullups with seated rows. Also t-bar rows with deadlifts.

I haven't done supersets in well over a year, but these were some of my favorites:

1--Barbell curl SS w/ pulldowns (or half-chins) to the top/back of my head.

With no rest between the two, each taken to failure or beyond, the pump could be so insane it truly got skin-splitting painful. I tried a few times to do a second set of this, and the pain was so bad I was ready to bail after the first rep or two of half-pulldowns.

2--Stiff-arm pulldowns SS w/ "lat shrugs"* SS w/ regular pulldowns. (*A lat shrug starts out as a standard pulldown, but you keep the arms relatively straight as you pull...think of it as a reverse shrug, because you stop pulling when your arms start to bend at the elbows. Obviously, you can use a ton of weight this way, but it's hard to get the hang of.)

Again, ungodly pump. Lats are easily my weakest bodypart, but I felt like Dorian Yates for awhile after doing a triset of these

3--Leg extensions SS w/ leg press. Same deal...if each were done with high reps plus several forced at the end, my thighs might burn for 30 minutes afterwards.


From a strength gain standpoint, that sort of pre-exhaustion stuff had a very limited use for me.

If you wanted to pump up for a picture or just wanted to have fun in the gym, though, doing any of those three HARD should yield a pump like you wouldn't believe.