Many studies have shown, in fact, one large what we call meta-analysis, which looks at a lot of different studies, showed that of 35 studies, 33 out of 35 showed no difference between single- and multi-set training, and that applies to the amount of lean muscle mass that you gain, the type of strength gain achieved, and even the appearance, the tone of the muscle, in the increase of lean muscle mass. But we also like integrated exercise, and you may hear in the weight room a term called compound exercise — and it’s working a lot of different muscles at the same time. Each of those are good, so maybe you could pick one day and do more isolated exercise, say a knee extension exercise for the quadriceps muscle, and the next day you could do more of an integrated exercise, like a squat exercise or a leg press. So if you’re going to try to do an upper body move with the lower body move that you’re doing, or exercise that you’re doing, you just need to make sure that the technique is as good as can be for that whole set of exercises. If you think of the upper body, the chest and shoulder muscles are balanced by the upper back muscles and the back of the shoulder muscles, and we always want to strive for that. read more
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