Hey, hey! In case you missed it over the weekend, be sure to check out the NEW BLOG DESIGN! I’m still loving it so much and hope you are too. Once again, have to give a shout out and thank you to Jenny from PBJ Designs. While you’re here checking out the new design, you may as well register for Best Body Bootcamp too. Round 5 registration going on now! Don’t miss out!
Okay. Now that that is out of the way, it’s time to WORK. You all know how much I love to share workouts with you. Creating workouts is definitely something that pumps me up…almost as much as completing a good workout. I can assure you this workout will leave you PUMPED. Your muscles won’t know what hit them!
Who here has heard of pre-fatigue sets? Well, it’s just as it sounds if you haven’t heard of this great training technique yet.
You complete pre-fatigue sets by completing an exercise to failure before moving directly into another exercise that works the same body part. This combination really challenges the strength endurance and can help push you past a workout plateau as you work your muscles to exhaustion…and then some more.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? If you love that pumped up feeling from a good strength workout, then this should sound good to you. Pre-fatigue sets deliver. I have not one, but TWO, workouts for you today.One upper body and one lower body. Each workout has pairs of exercises – do the first exercise to fatigue and then finish out with 8 to 12 reps of the second exercise in each pairing. Complete 2 to 4 sets in this fashion before moving on to the next pair of exercises. Each workout should last between 20 to 40 minutes depending on how many sets you complete.
Good luck lifting your arms or going up stairs after these. 
Have you ever done pre-fatigue sets like these before? Which combo looks like your favorite?
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Yikes! My body will be like jelly after this one. I love doing exercises until failure/fatigue.
LOVE the look of your site now too!!!
I need to join BBB—-next time be my time.
perfect MONDAY workout!
this looks so HARD!!! i love it
These look great! Should there be a rest between each set? For how long?
Yes! I would suggest resting about 60 seconds between each set. Complete the 2 paired exercises together back to back with minimal rest but give your muscles a chance to recover after the full superset.
These would be great lunchtime workouts. I’m going to try them. Would you suggest doing them both on one day or doing them separately?
Love the new look!
I haven’t done a workout like this before. I look forward to trying it out!
I am loving the new blog design! Looks great!
I am thinking I might try 2-4 sets of your upper body one today, just to see how things go. If I feel ok, then move on to lower body, but upper for sure!
Hope you enjoyed it if you gave it a shot!
Loving the new design!!
Mm this is looking like a workout I’m going to have to try! Maybe today while I start my week off without a Best Body Bootcamp workout in the plans.
Thanks for sharing!
yes I needed some workout ideas, I always feel lost at the gym during the grace period between BBB rounds!
I’m here to serve!
LOVE the new layout!! and love this idea of pre-fatigue sets. Nothing better than really working a muscle till there’s nothing left
I really like your new blog layout – the green and purple look great together.
Thanks, Fiona!
Eeesh, this sounds brutal! Definitely something I’d have to try when I knew I had a good amount of time to recover afterwards! Haha.
Beautiful new blog design! I’m a big fan
Loving the new blog look! Jenny does awesome work!
Looks like some great workouts. I think I’d be jello after this!
SO ready for this workout today!
Holy cow! That sounds awesome and a little scary at the same time! I haven’t tried pre-fatigue workouts before and can’t wait to try!
Your blog looks great! Jenny is working on my blog too
Can’t wait to see what it looks like. I’m sure it will be awesome.
Yikes! Sounds pretty intense . . . and definitely something that would provide quite the DOMS to deal with later!
Love Jenny and love the new design! I’ll be signing up for bootcamp next week when my paycheck comes in, but I am SO SO excited for it. Seeing your workouts on the blog get me even more excited.
Awesome workouts Tina. I just added the upper body workout to my schedule for tomorrow!
Yay! Hope it works ya good.
Love the pre-fatigue work-outs. Pinned them to try soon!! (I think I will do the max wall-sit today just for fun.)
These look intense!! Got to love it
I’ve never heard of pre-fatigue sets before but I love the lineup of these two workouts!
Loving the new blog design! I just finished Fitmixer Bootcamp on Friday, and was wondering what I was going to do for a workout today…guess I found one to do right here!! yay!!
Looking forward to Round 5 of BBB, already registered!
So glad to have you back with BBB. Hope FitMixer was a good experience too for you.
it definitely was…especially for getting my eating habits on the right track…your workouts are more my style though I think
Love the new look of the site, very cool! This workout looks like a killer. I’ve never tried an “until fatigue” workout before but I often have to take rests during CrossFit WODs so I certainly know what it feels like.
This looks awesome (very hard but good workout)! I can’t wait to try it!
Looks like two awesome workouts. I’ll be joining up for Bootcamp soon. Can’t wait!
I clearly have not done anything even remotely close to this in a while– looks like one of those workouts that has you feeling incredibly proud of finishing when you are done.
You could always give it a try. Just do lighter weights for the strength sets and maybe not push to full fatigue on the fatigue sets. Always start with just 2 sets of each too. I thikn you could do it!
This looks like an awesome training technique! I should definitely try it
I’m lovin the new look!
thanks for sharing!!!
These workouts seem like killlers, I can’t wait to feel the burn
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