A superset chains several exercises together with no recovery between them. You add it from the builder's Add button, and the recovery sits at the end of the block rather than between each movement.
The superset is the first of four chaining blocks, all reached from the same button: Superset, EMOM, For Time and AMRAP. They share the same mechanics, a list of exercises played in order, and differ by what decides the end of the block.
1. Adding a superset
In the builder, click Add.
Choose Superset.
The block appears in the build area with a first exercise already in place, and its edit window opens. That is your signal the block has been created.
2. Setting up the superset
In the edit window of the block, you set:
the number of sets, meaning how many times the whole block runs;
the Rest after set, which applies once, at the end of each round.
The exercise section lists the movements of the block in order. Click Add an exercise to add one more, or click the name of an exercise to set it up.
Leave the recovery empty and the field reads No recovery: the rounds follow one another without a pause.
💡 Tip
Do not mix up Superset and Repeat. The superset chains different exercises; the repeat replays an identical block several times. You can combine the two: put a superset inside a repeat for a circuit to run 4 rounds.
3. What your athlete sees
On their workout, the block shows as a card, with its type and its duration or number of sets in the title. Two tabs switch the reading:
the set view: the detail round by round, with the reps, the target and the laterality of each exercise;
the exercise view: the list of movements, with their instruction and their video.
4. The three other blocks
Same Add button, same list of exercises. What changes is what brings the block to an end.
Block | What you set | What stops the block |
Superset | Sets, Rest after set | The number of sets |
EMOM | Total duration, Every (the interval) | The total duration |
For Time | Sets, Max duration (optional), Rest after set | The number of sets, or the max duration if you set one |
AMRAP | Total duration, Rest after set | The total duration |
An EMOM has no recovery
That is deliberate: in an EMOM, the recovery is whatever is left of the interval once the work is done. The Rest after set field therefore does not appear, and the exercises you add to an EMOM arrive with no recovery pre-filled, even when Show recovery is on.
Death by: a block with no announced end
On an EMOM and on an AMRAP, the duration field hides a menu with two values: Duration and Death by. Choose Death by and the block has no duration any more: it runs until your athlete can no longer keep up. The block title then shows Death by instead of the clock.
📌 Good to know
An EMOM, For Time or AMRAP block needs a recent version of the Nolio app to be played in guided mode on your athlete's phone. On an older version the workout stays readable on their card, but the guided player does not start. A plain Superset is not affected.
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