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@anniekins13 I'd never heard of MAPS. Seems to make sense. I'm 31, so I'd like to think I'm not quite middle age, so maybe I'm at Almost-MAPS? I trust Dan John, so I'll know that 10 is the number to stop at moving forward.

@jackier293 I like this idea a lot. Any reason for doing 3 sets instead of 5?

@lookingforlight Seems great too, but I regrettably am only using KBs in increments of 4K, so I don't think I'd be able to pull this off.

Hello all. First time poster, long time lurker here. Quick background, I workout M/W/F with a using a variant of Mark Wildman's Tetris Style (A days - C&P, TGU, Weighted Dip, B days - Swing, Squat, Weighted Chins). I've been using 5 set ladders for the dips and chins and am essentially up...

@youngman4god You're welcome!

@youngman4god I think another tactic is to just progressively add one more rep to your workout. The Fighter Pullup Program outlines some of the basic principals, but in short, just add one more rep each workout, and then you'll eventually get there. I generally add my one rep in the middle...

@snowlucario Thank you. And that's really helpful to know. I may run something to mix it up over the next 4-6 weeks that has a healthy (but not unending) dose of C&P and then jump right into 1.2 to finish it off.

I just wrapped up Geoff Neupert's popular The Giant program, which only focuses on the clean & press, and I wanted to give it a quick review. Background As a bit of background, I was in between bell sizes for the better part of 2023. To start the year, I could hit 12 reps on the C&P with my...