Quality falls off a cliff
Your first exercises get your best effort, and by the eighth or ninth movement you are just accumulating junk fatigue. Growth comes from hard sets, not from the length of your exercise list.
Am I doing too many exercises in one session?
If a session runs past 75 minutes or your last lifts feel flat, you likely have too many exercises and too little quality.
The quick answer
Probably, if quality is dropping. Most productive sessions cover 4 to 8 exercises; beyond that, fatigue tanks the effort you can give the later lifts. Two to four hard sets each on well chosen movements beats ten exercises you rush through. If the exercises at the end feel weak and pointless, trim them and put that energy into fewer, harder sets.
How to think about it
Aim for 4 to 8 movements
Cover the session goal with a few compounds and a couple of isolations, roughly 4 to 8 exercises. That is enough to hit 10 to 20 weekly sets per muscle without 2 hour marathons.
Redundant picks waste time
Three chest exercises that all press at the same angle add little over two well chosen ones. Cut overlap and keep movements that train different angles or muscles.
Do this
- Time your sessionIf you regularly pass 75 to 90 minutes, that is a cue to drop exercises rather than push through.
- Judge the last liftIf your final movement always feels flat and rushed, remove it and add a set to something earlier.
- Cut the overlapKeep one or two exercises per angle and drop the third redundant variation.
Keep going
How SUUPR helps
If a session runs past 75 minutes or your last lifts feel flat, you likely have too many exercises and too little quality.