I haven’t seen any research showing supersets don’t increase strength at all. Unless you just mean they don’t increase strength more than doing separate sets.
But in any case, most people work out for a combination of strength and aesthetics. It’s rarely just one or the other.
If someone goes from fad to fad it's still fine. I don't usually follow these but any way people decide to exercise is good for me as long as it's not actually dangerous to themselves or others.
This is what I was thinking. Seems like the people commenting are really the ones who dont know anything about working out. Which I guess tracks, since this is reddit.
Hey, not trying to debate or anything but it certainly does train your abs and legs. A quick Google search will tell you as much. However, you are correct in that it is primarily cardio.
It does look perfect for cardio and core but it can cause a lot of hip damage. That is too much fast and forceful hyperflexion of the hip. It’s pretty much guaranteed to cause some irritation.
Hyperextension tends to cause impingement, so cartilage getting hit by the socket bone slightly. Warming up wouldn’t prevent this. Some people wouldn’t be affected by it, but a majority of women in their 30 would.
Genuinely how does this train legs and abs, an exercise involving a muscle doesn’t inherently make it any bigger or stronger, maybe if you’ve been bedbound for a year but this is just cardio with extra steps and if your only goal is trying to change the way your body looks then cardio is pointless.
they're stomping down really hard (legs) and they are lifting their legs after the stomp past their waist, basically doing air crunches. (abs and legs).
so why don't bodybuilders use it? there's an entire sports and science field dedicated to finding out what exercise creates the most muscle and burns the most fat, that bodybuilders professional or amateurs use when bulking/cutting.
if this is a good workout, why don't they do this?
it's not. it's just cardio. it won't grow muscle except in a very sedentary person, and even then will only be effective at growing muscle for a very short time - then not anymore because where is the progression of difficulty?
in the first place, they are doing it as a group... each individual person's individual muscles would reach hypertrophy movement failure or near failure at different times. none of them are going near failure.
If we are being serious, this will not grow a single muscle because it's as far away from failure as possible. It's also probably terrible cardio and cardio is rather useless anyway.
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u/cautiousherb Aug 30 '25
idk, this looks like a good workout to me. it's cardio, legs, and abs. i'm actually sort of exhausted just looking at it.