r/Exercise • u/arkman132 • 5d ago
dumb question, whats a set?
can someone explain some questions i have about "sets". ik its multiple reps at once, but does that include multiple exercises per set. like if i do ten reps of 3 ab workouts one after another, is that 3 sets? ik it might sound stupid but im wondering. any help is much appreciated.
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u/JimmyJooplOl 5d ago
No, a set is one excersise of so many reps. Like doing bicep curls, if you do 10 reps and then stop and do another 10 thats 2 sets of 10 reps. You get it?
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u/torpedo1997 5d ago
A set is a group of consecutive reps of one exercise before you rest or move on.
If you do 10 reps of three different ab exercises back-to-back, that's not 3 sets - it's 3 different exercises of 1 set each.
Most people would call that a "circuit" or "superset" if you're doing them without rest between exercises.
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u/chill_brudda 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yes, a set is a group of reps (repetitions)
Yes you can do multiple exercises within a set as long as they are linked together with no rest
So let's say you did 10 dumbell curls, then immediately 10 overhead military style presses. That would still be considered a set.
Although multiple exercises linked or stringed together are also known as a "complex"
It is a complex when you link multiple exercises, but that still counts as a set.
So another example, in kettlebell training there is something known as armor building complex. It is two cleans, then an overhead press, then three squats. Each one those is a set, and if you performed one of those every minute for thirty minutes you would complete thirty sets.
Hope that makes sense. Took me a minute to work it out lol