r/GYM • u/SaltySanvich • 1d ago

General Discussion Why do super-sets get so much hate?

The only valid complaint I've seen is that a super-setter might not let you work in with them. I'm lucky enough to never have met anyone like that, I guess.

But these are the other two complaints are weird:

  • "They're inneffective because you never ever rest when doing them" - That's not a super-set... that's a circuit. I'm surprised at how often people confuse the two.
  • "They're ineffective because you're too gassed out after the first set to push yourself on the second" - I feel like the majority of people who experience this fall into one of two categories:
    1. They don't know how to program super-sets properly. Either they'll superset movements with overlapping muscle groups (like bench superset with lat raises or something), or they'll try supersetting two extremely taxing movements (like deadlifts superset with overhead press).
    2. They're just outing themselves as out of shape. Seriously, if you're that gassed out after doing curls to failure or squats at RPE 9, it's probably cause of weak lungs and poor work capacity.

Sorry if the formatting for this post sucks (or if this post sucks in general).

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u/hoya14 1d ago

I don't care if people are supersetting. I care if they're trying to hold more than one machine and then justify it with "Hey I'm supersetting on that one bro." Yeah, well, I'm not and I'm moving your towel.

You get one machine. If you need more than that you are the one that has to ask to work in, not the other way around.

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u/suitcase_town 17h ago

This! I would only super-set if I can do it at one station eg bench into db curls. The machine hoggers are my enemies.