Supersetting push with pull

[Juanco20]

If you are a bit pushed for time and need to get in and out of the gym as quickly as possible, what's the general consensus on the effectiveness of super setting a push exercise with a pull. Such as:

Weighted Dips and then straight into Bent over rows or inverted rows

Bench press straight into weighted pull ups

Close grip bench straight into some sort of bicep exercise

Useful or useless?

[mu0n]

I don't think it's as effective for building muscle but probably quite effective if you are on a cut and looking to increase intensity.

I've never been a fan of push/pull on the same days for 'building' but others do it that way.

I don't necessarily think there's a right or wrong way though.

[DSharp]

I've used it a little bit when trying to do some conditioning work, but usually kep the supersetting exercise quite light and high rep, mainly just for conditinioning, keep the heart rate up and increase the intensity of the workout.

Depends on goals I suppose. To save time in a strength / bulking phase I'm not so sure, but if you are cutting / conditioning, or fancy a change - might find it useful.

[MrWhale]

Have allways trained this way due to time, works well and helps with blood flow / workout intensity

[MrWhale]

Going from M&F magazines this is how arnold used to train

[mu0n]

It depends if you’re okay with doing heavy chest + heavy back in the same sessions… plus the time for it. I know from what I’ve read Arnie did push/pull also but he would train for hours, a couple of times a day so could fit it all in + his pro hormones. If you are limited for time I’d have thought training 2 big muscle groups in 1 session (to at least hit them all hard) would be counter-intuitive. You’d be better off doing chest with tri + bi and then back with shoulders or something like that if time was an issue.

Only my opinion. I am use to doing back/bi and chest/tri. I usually do all back or chest then do the bi or tri at the end when they are already tired/warmed up so at least you don’t need to piss around with lighter warm-up sets.