drop set

English

Alternative forms

• drop-set, dropset

Pronunciation

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Noun

drop set (plural drop sets)

1. (bodybuilding) A set of repetitions of an exercise wherein muscular failure is reached and before resting the exercise is continued with decreased resistance to failure.

   Synonym: reduction set

Translations

Lowering the resistance before resting for another set

• Finnish: pudotussarja
• German: Reduktionssatz m
• Swedish: dropset

Anagrams

• red tops, desport, spot-red, redtops, deports, red-tops, sported