>>42799>Judging by how each exercise feels I don't think there's a ton of overlap in the muscles being used so I didn't think the rest was strictly necessary. Correct, which is one reason to do supersets. You do want to ensure you rest between sets of the same movement, because otherwise you won't do as well as you can and won't progress as fast.
>It seems like only the shoulder presses and tricep extensions conflict with one another Correct, both use tricepts to extend the arm but they're less involved in the shoulder press. So if you fatigue them first it will make it harder to do a shoulder press. Supersetting lifts that use the same muscle groups is more advanced and if you're doing supersets you'd be better off splitting and ordering the lifts so they don't conflict like that.
>OTOH there's a huge variance in how much effort each exercise takesThat's expected since you're using the same weight for all of them. Depending on the lift you are going to be able to do heavier weight. This is mostly due to how much muscle is involved - you can lift heavier with the "compound" lifts that use more muscles. If you don't use heavier weight for movements you're stronger in, you won't advance very much if at all. You could somewhat get around this by doing more reps, but if you're squatting with the same weight you're curling you would just be turning the squats into cardio with how many you'd be doing. You need to lift heavier for certain movments. Rule of thumb is more muscles/body involved, more weight. You need to find your limit by experimenting though. See how many reps you can do at a given weight and if you can do the rep ranges you gave without failure, then bump up the weight until you feel like you're close to failure. Avoid hitting failure especially if you're new, and learn how to safely fail a lift before you start lifting anything really heavy.
>Sorry if I misunderstood anything and thanks againI think you got it. The terms might be intimidating but they're generally pretty straightforward.
>any advice on where to slot in RDL's, reverse flyes and pull-ups?If you don't superset them it's not as big of a deal, but generally you want the bigger movements first. I'd s
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