What are your thoughts on super and giant sets? Can they add more stress effectively/efficiently or do they just compromise your recovery between sets?
Can you give a more specific example of what you’re talking about? Context matters here.
I’m interested in this as well. There have been a few times I’ve been crunched for time on the bridge and I’ve done a superset of Deadlifts and bench. It hasn’t seemed to hurt my progress but I’m not sure. I’ve also superset Squats and Rows as well.
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This is what I do as well. It’s so much quicker to rotate two lifts at once and as long as there isn’t an obvious clash, it seems to make no difference, especially as most of the volume sets in the templates are quite sub-maximal.
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Eric Helms of 3DMJ has some interesting things to say on supersets/alternating antagonistic sets or his technical term.
If you have not watched his Training Pyramid series I would highly recommend it. But if I remember correctly, he only recommends them in terms of hitting volume for hypertrophy blocks and not strength blocks.
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I tried this aswell when time is limited, but going straight from bench to pendley rows limit the amount of mechanical load you can use. However instead of going straight over to the antagonist movement you could save littlebit time by resting a few minutes between each set not a full 5 minutes but 2,5 minutes for example. I don’t see any problem with this if it happens on occasion, atleast it is better than not training at all. If it happens often maybe you need to switch program, maybe program does not fit your lifestyle at this point in life , kids, wife, new house, crazy boss at new job and so on… life happens, but we have to try to adapt the best we can and find solutions so we can still thrive in the gym. Other solutions could be investing in a gym at home, this really changed things for me, even though I do feel the need to train with others likeminded people every week aswell, but i don’t need it everyday. Good luck !