How To Increase Muscle Size With Super Setting
August 11, 2010 by admin
If you do your reading in weight lifting magazines and journals, then you have probably heard of super setting before. Bodybuilders have many different techniques and methods of how to increase muscle size, but arguably one of the best and most effective involves super setting. Have you ever noticed that the really big guys are super setting in their weight lifting? If you’re looking to pull off the same look, then you’re going to need to get started doing some of that on your own, too.
So maybe you’ve heard of super setting but you’re not positive about what exactly it is. A super set is when you do two exercises consecutively (back to back) with no rest in between the two exercises. There are some variations on the super set model, including antagonistic muscle super set, pre-exhaustion super set, and post-exhaustion super set. There are more, but we’ll dedicate our time to these three.
Antagonistic Muscle Building Super Set
When a weightlifter is doing an antagonistic muscle super set, it means he or she is exercising opposite muscle groups, which might sound a little odd at first but keep in mind that the muscles you’d be exercising would actually be supporting each other while you move. For example, in one exercise, muscle #1 would be the dominant one, and in the second, muscle #2 would be the dominant one in use.
Pre-Exhaustion Super Set
In this sort of super set, what you’re doing is trying to work out the same group of muscles with an isolation exercise, followed immediately with a compound exercise. No rest in between the two is permitted. For example, if you were to work out with a dumb bell, and then afterward do the bench press, you’d be doing the pre-exhaustion super set.
Post-Exhaustion Super Set
The final version of the super set we’ll examine here is the post-exhaustion super set. This is the opposite of the pre-exhaustion in that you would life the compound exercise first, followed by the isolation exercise, both on the same muscle group. In other words, you’d do bench press followed by working with the dumbbells.
It can be incredibly beneficial to alternate methods. For example, you can do one style of super set for 2 or 3 months, and then switch. This can help to supersize and increase muscle size in no time!
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