Judea Brown Sr., Master Trainer and Nutrition Advisor, shares why every woman should be incorporating resistance training into daily activities. In addition to preventing illness and disease, resistance training creates important muscle health that supports overall strength, balance, bones, heart, metabolism, stress levels and more.

This type of training gets the very last ounce of energy out of your muscles by taking the initial set of an exercise to fatigue resting and then doing some more. So if you thought your training was tough enough think again because this takes tough that one step further.

Why do it?

Tri-sets are one of those training techniques that have been designed around an existing training style and then someone had the ingenious idea of adding more. Please note my sarcasm as really it doesn’t take a lot of effort to take an idea and add more to make it seem better.

What are Sets?

When performing exercises you have two forms of counting the exercise you are doing. The first is repetitions (reps) and this refers to the number of times you complete an exercise. For example a bicep curl movement up and down is one rep. Let’s say for arguments sake that you complete 15 repetitions and rest. Those 15 reps will be considered as one set. After your rest repeat the 15 reps again and you have completed two sets.

Before you get your teeth into this article I would strongly advise that you read our post on Repetitions first. Even if you think you know it all it would be a good idea to remind yourself of the main points. You can read our post on Exercise Repetitions here.

So you have now understood how to choose the correct amount of repetitions for your desired goal, but how many times should you repeat them or how many sets should you do?

What are sets?

When designing any program it is important to decide how many repetitions are needed for each exercise. To get this number you first need to understand what your goals are. When you know what you want to achieve then you can start designing a bespoke program that will really help you reach those goals.

Remember that there are always exceptions to the rule and there are training techniques that do not follow the protocol that I will share with you. These are very simple guidelines that have a proven track record of getting my clients the results they want.