Stuck for time? I was the other day and had to cram a chest and back workout into under 30mins. I didn’t want to drop any exercises, because I would not be training as hard. So how did I fit it all in? I used opposing muscle supersets.

For those of you who don’t know what a superset is, it’s one set completed straight after another, with no rest in between. A good superset example would be bench press/flat bench flys. Where you would bang out a set on the bench the as soon as the weight is on the rack pick up the dumbbells and bust out a set of flys. An opposing muscle group superset is a superset using opposing muscle groups. This was perfect for my chest/back workout as these muscle groups are opposing. Here are some other opposing muscle groups:

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Here’s a fantastic picture of Larry Scott, the first ever Mr Olympia, doing ring flys. This is an awesome strength and isolation exercise if you have the strength to do them with correct form.

There are a couple of other bodyweight fly techniques I know of.

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Today I came across a good video with some simple exercises you can do with a single barbell at home. If you equipment is limited, here’s a good exmaple of what you can do if you get creative. This guy hits almost every muscle group in this vid.

On top of the exercises you see in the video you’ve also got all the traditional barbell exercises you can do for building muscle.

Check out the video: