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@legatichristi I thought by reading Overcoming Gravity it'd be easy to make my own routine. I've realized after reading, it's much better to copy a professional routine and follow it closely but making as few changes as possible, based on my goals and training level. Because the more things you...

@ladydenise226 Are you going to failure on your last set? Are these sets really hard? Have you ever tested your PR for weighted pullups by working up to a higher weight?

@bobgunn If a exercise were like renovating a house, then the workout is tearing down walls and the rest is re-building them. If you only tore down walls your house will fall apart and nothing will be rebuilt.

@vnct0000 The flexibility sub has one called Starting to Stretch. It's an awesome starting point to cover some of the low hanging fruit and also work toward the exciting stuff like splits, toe touches and pancakes.

@hannah97 Have you looked at all at the Convict Conditioning progressions? You might be able to incorporate his steps into the spreadsheet. He did something similar, here's a link of all the progressions in the first book...

@neophyte365 For me personally, I do pullups where my feet are toward the ground (no crossed legs, straight legs) so even if I did fall I'd just fall onto my feet. It's never happened, but just a thought.

@raykay Awesome guide! I'm intermediate and wondering which exercises to add to my routine (goal is strength first, size second). Currently, I do tuck FL rows, weighted pullups, rings face pulls, and ring bicep curls for my pull-day. I'll start doing some inverted hang progressions too for traps...

@kc8vji Well supersets are a hypertrophy thing for the same muscle, paired sets are for different muscles and putting your sets halfway between your other sets.