Supersetting Problems - Help!

Bigger Stronger Leaner Competitive Bodybuilding
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I’m currently doing Waterbury’s “New Frontiers” high-frequency program. I’m just getting into the third stage and now the twice-a-day workouts have begun.

Here’s the problem:

I’m having a lot of trouble completing the supersets during my PM workout. By that point in the day, I’m pretty beat and it’s hard to do a bunch of back-to-back full-body exercises with little rest in between. I get light-headed, woozy, a little sick…

What can I do about this?

I don’t think I’ve overdone it on the amount of weight I’m lifting. I’m just following Chad’s instructions about using a weight that, for example, would be my 8 RM. So, if I lowered the weight a bit (as I imagine some of you will suggest) to deal with this problem, I will no longer be following Chad’s parameters.

I fear that if I start to lower the weight to cope with my fatigue/sickness, I will no longer make good gains. What do you guys think about (during those PM workouts when I just physically cannot complete the workout without getting ill) turning it into just straight-up sets, rather than supetsets as Chad suggested? For example, instead of doing 4 x 6 of squats and dips back-to-back, I did 4 x 6 squats and then 4 x 6 dips?

What do you guys think? Any ideas would be great. That last workout was excruciating.

Thanks.

  • HM
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Are you eating enough? Enough rest & sleep?

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Are you feeling well enough to train? It could very well be that you are
a) Not conditioned enough yet
b) Just not feeling well (as you kind of alluded to)

I am just wrapping up this program and found that if I ate enough (I’m talking 3,000kcal for at 5’6" and 130ish lbs female) and got my rest, I was powering through my PM workouts.

There were days when I simply couldn’t perform pairings because the gym was too busy so I just did straight sets and was strict with shorter rests.

Maybe you should step back and look at how you could better facilitate recovery to be fresh for your PM workouts.

Are you eating enough? Sleeping lots? What is the nature of your fatigue? Is it simply a matter of taking 10 more seconds between sets?

I think this volume/frequency of training can only be sustained if you are treating your body well outside of the gym.

Hope that the gains and challenge are as enjoyable for you as they were for me!
Good luck!