Smart Strength Training Podcast
Jun 17, 2026 · 17 min · 6 segments
Summary: In this episode of the Smart Strength Training Podcast, I explores time-efficient strategies and advanced methods for progression, focusing on drop sets and cluster sets. I break down what…
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welcome back to another episode of the smart strength training podcast so we are on podcast 67 and today i'm talking about time efficient strategies and advanced methods for progression so more results in less time using strategies for this episode i'm going to talk about drop sets and cluster sets now of course One of the biggest barriers that people have towards exercise is time.
I've covered before in an episode the conversation around supersets, pairing exercises together, how it can be a useful time efficient strategy, but potentially also it can interfere with someone's performance.
Going beyond that, we can start to think about other ways that we can save time and get a bit more workload in.
Because I think it's smart that people do have, certainly for anyone that's been training for a little while and they've been doing four sets of six, three sets of eight, they might start seeing other strategies being used, reading about it, and maybe thinking, is that a worthwhile thing to bring into my training? And where does the research sit within these topics? And also, I think more importantly as well, How does one implement these sorts of things? I guess the same with like a superset.
Would an individual pair every exercise together or only some? So I think it's really smart to know how to actually use some of these strategies.
So, and as I mentioned, I'm going to cover this across two series or two episodes.
I want to cover drop sets and cluster sets today, and then my reps and rest pause sets on the next episode.
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welcome back to another episode of the smart strength training podcast so we are on podcast 67 and today i'm talking about time efficient strategies and advanced methods for progression so more results in less time using strategies for this episode i'm going to talk about drop sets and cluster sets now of course One of the biggest barriers that people have towards exercise is time.
I've covered before in an episode the conversation around supersets, pairing exercises together, how it can be a useful time efficient strategy, but potentially also it can interfere with someone's performance.
Going beyond that, we can start to think about other ways that we can save time and get a bit more workload in.
Because I think it's smart that people do have, certainly for anyone that's been training for a little while and they've been doing four sets of six, three sets of eight, they might start seeing other strategies being used, reading about it, and maybe thinking, is that a worthwhile thing to bring into my training? And where does the research sit within these topics? And also, I think more importantly as well, How does one implement these sorts of things? I guess the same with like a superset.
Would an individual pair every exercise together or only some? So I think it's really smart to know how to actually use some of these strategies.
So, and as I mentioned, I'm going to cover this across two series or two episodes.
I want to cover drop sets and cluster sets today, and then my reps and rest pause sets on the next episode.