What are some of your favorite supersets that you guys and gals use? I’ve been using them a lot more the past few months and I find them to be a huge benefit.
Neutral grip weighted chinups and heavy standing dumbbell press
Push press and box jumps
Push-ups, kettlebell swings, and farmer walks
Hang cleans and pushups
On upper body I’ll do an antagonistic movement in the same plane prior to each set of the main movement for that day, ie,
Any of several row variations/bench
Weighted pull-ups/military press
I do the same with my accessory work, doing a use/pull in the same plane.
Lower body, I do the main lift on its own but with accessory moves, I’ll add abs or calves or something. A brutal one i’ve been doing lately is heavy rack pulls(mid-shin) s/s with heavy KB swings. I thought the KB was 105, but I did the conversion wrong (kg to lb), its 115.
I like doing it on a chest supported row. Grab a lat pulldown bar (preferably with a neutral grip), lay in the chest supprt, try bend the bar around the chest support. Drop the bar and rep some rows out.
You could do this with a BB row by finding am upright and try bending a bar around that for the isometric but I think this works best if the isometric is in the fully contracted position.
I am considering running these on every big movement next hypertrophy focussed block…
Tis the season for iso holds and slow negatives. I’ve started incorporating both into a couple workouts a week, and my joints are already feeling more stable.
I don’t know if this counts as a superset but I’m posting this as it was pure hell.
You mark spots 10-20m apart
You start at one end, do 20 push ups
Walk to the other end, do 1 push up
Walk back, do 19 push ups
Walk back, do 2 push ups
Continue until you have done 20 push ups at the “1” end.
No better way to end a chest work out than 420 (?) push ups.