@coacheugeneteo: Glute workout. I don’t use giant sets or drop sets much, but here’s why this one’s useful: 1. Full range: By the end, you’ve trained the glutes effectively through their entire contractile range. You could do these as separate exercises/straight sets instead, but that’s not always an option. 2. Light weight: I don’t need to spend as much time warming up to 7 plates on a hip thrust or lug 100lb dumbbells around for RDLs. Single leg & the giant set cuts it down significantly. 3. Exercise order: Starting with the thrusts won’t generate as much fatigue, but you’ll still get the muscle fibre recruitment you want as you reach failure. Then, you get to start the RDLs closer to that failure point with less weight needed. 4. Time saving: This entire set took about 90 seconds and didn’t need any warm up sets. Done separately, this would have taken me at least 20 minutes, if not longer. Caveats: 1. This stuff isn’t necessarily better than straight sets. Drop sets (which this technically is), at best give us the same amount of stimulus as straight sets. But you get to cut down on a lot of time. 2. This could generate a ton of fatigue and impact performance. It’ll still feel hard, but you won’t be getting a strong hypertrophy stimulus. Take a 10-20s rest between each exercise, and aim for around 6-10 reps each.

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