Drop setting: by marcus300

[gbrice75]

I'll leave it up to the pro's to give a definitive answer, but what I believe to be the case is that you would not be doing 4 exercises during a workout where you intend to use drop sets. In other words, if you typically do 4 exercises, 3 sets each, that's a total of 12 sets for that bodypart. Once you incorporate drop sets, since each drop is still part of the same working set, you would most definitely overtrain that muscle group if you tried drop setting for 12 sets - that would technically be like doing 36 sets!

Again, Marcus, HP - correct me if i'm wrong, but when I use drop sets I stick to the 'meat and potatoes' exercises.

[stevey_6t9]

I'll leave it up to the pro's to give a definitive answer, but what I believe to be the case is that you would not be doing 4 exercises during a workout where you intend to use drop sets. In other words, if you typically do 4 exercises, 3 sets each, that's a total of 12 sets for that bodypart. Once you incorporate drop sets, since each drop is still part of the same working set, you would most definitely overtrain that muscle group if you tried drop setting for 12 sets - that would technically be like doing 36 sets!

Again, Marcus, HP - correct me if i'm wrong, but when I use drop sets I stick to the 'meat and potatoes' exercises.

yeah i agree.

i personally believe drop sets are your proverbial ace card and should be used sparingly. yes they are great but they do tax you alot and doing alot of them may lead to overtraining.