SuperSets lah!
People have been asking me so much about my workout routine, I’ve decided to make it sort of a permanent feature. Here is ONE of my workouts. This was the one that I started out with initially got me from average to hunk. Haha.
SuperSets
What are Super sets? Google “supersets” and you’ll find a myriad of articles and web pages professing what are and what are not supersets. Some are plain silly, some make sense, and some are a hodge podge of ideas. I took my ideas of Supersets from a copy of Men’s Health (the American one), that I read way way way back in 1990. This was the one with Mark Findlay on the cover and had him demonstrating the supersets. It was an awesome article and I’m pretty sure I have it around somewhere (lying in the dust at home.) I read the article over and over and over and I’m pretty sure I have it down pat. The article called for 2 or 3 exercises for the same muscle group, mostly done in isolation. But I digress.
Supersets give you very fast growth and great cut (that ripped look), if you stay loyal to the plan. But that’s a given… you have to be rather disciplined yet flexible. A superset to me is a set of 2 or more exercises for each muscle group with really really light weights. I started with dumbells of 2.5kg only and barbells of 5kg. LEAVE YOUR EGO OUTSIDE THE GYM!! A single set consists of 15-12-10-8 reps, sometimes you might want to do 18-15-12-10 but that’s rather time consuming. But you can see the pattern. Eventually you’d want to do at least 2 sets and perhaps even double your weights. But I daresay by the time you double your sets, you’d have hit your plateau, and you’d have to change your routine. I change my routine every 2-3 months.
Sets
These are the combinations I generally use, but bear in mind that I have a bad back so I tend to avoid those that tax my back excessively. The stuff in brackets might be a worthy text book exercise, and please use your brains, don’t be overdoing your sets if you can’t take it. LISTEN TO YOUR BODY! Some things are meant to be done on alternate days.
- calf raises, hamstring curls
- leg extensions, seated leg presses (squats)
- bench press, incline press, chest flys or cable flys
- bench press, decline press, chest flys or cable flys
- lat pull downs, lat rows, bent over rows
- lateral raises, front raises, dumbell shoulder presses
- barbell curls, over hand barbell curls, dumbell curls
There.
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sleepy
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