For exercise selection, most recommend sticking with dumbbells, with the exception of legs. Obviously, it will allow you to have a greater ROM (range of motion) as well as the safety aspect of dropping them down once failure is reached.
Poliquin says to adapt to the limitations of your gym. Me personally, my gym is way to large to do squatting supersetted with leg curls. Plus, they are on opposite ends of the gym. These factors will force you to make a decision. Either find different, yet similiar exercises, or just do each 10x10 exercise straight through while allowing less rest between sets.
Example:
-I'd choose to do chest/back in a day for GVT. Reason being, the antagonistic supersetting will allow your work capacity to increase. This means that by supersetting bench with rows, you're more able to push out more reps. I cannot speak for most gyms, but at my gym (L.A. Fitness), the cable rows are on the opposite end as the benches are. So, my choices are either just doing presses w/out supersetting with 60 seconds rest between sets, or (what I'd do) bringing the dumbbells you'll use across the gym and use the cable row bench for the presses.
Last edited by Darkhorse; 12-03-2005 at 08:08 AM.
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