Andrew Huberman· PhD
Right. So I wouldn't want to do like bench press and overhead press, super set it, 'cause you're going to weaken-
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Right. So I wouldn't want to do like bench press and overhead press, super set it, 'cause you're going to weaken-
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So for the average person I will tell them, yeah, super set. For someone who's trying to break a world record in weightlifting or power lifting, don't super set.
So you're doing your bench press, and while that two minute clock is running for your chest, to rest, you can go over and do your deadlifts. And so you can kind of move back and forth, and this is how you can make strength training not a seven hour workout.
I love doing supersets. So, if I'm at a station where I can super set chest and back work, I'll super set with minimal rest, between sets- Also very time efficient. - Or bicep versus tricep work, or anything that you can do, sort of super-setting antagonistic muscles- I take advantage of that.
if you want to maximize time efficiency, then we might consider agonist antagonist supersets. So when you look at somebody doing a bench press or chest press and then instead of resting for the two to three minutes and then doing the next set, they go and they do a row. And so you're going back and forth and you're you're pairing a push and a pull. And that doesn't seem to interfere with adaptation or even acute performance the same way it would if you didn't rest in between your straight sets of bench press.
supersets will reduce the strength gains but by a tiny amount and most of us don't care enough relative to it's going to triple the length of your training session. It's not worth it. So for the average person I will tell them yeah superset.
i think when i've experimented in the gym i think that supersetting works really well especially if you are working out of a muscle that's not necessarily directly under blood flow restriction
super sets are typically when you are engaging backto back different exercises that are working different muscle groups without any rest and so you're doing back toback on so for example you're doing bicep curls and then you you know after your bicep curls you go straight into tricep kickbacks then you go into lateral raises or frontal raises then you go back then you you know hammer curls and then you go back to the some sort of tricep K and you're doing them like back to back right like so those are the sets and you really get fatigued and it is a very time efficient way you can get a really good workout in 10 minutes doing 10 minutes non-stop just switching switching from you know muscle group to muscle group doing these sort of super sets as well