NonStop
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Hi there,
I understand the reasoning of picking typically picking 2 exercises for ladders and going back and forth between them (1 rep of each, then 2 reps of each etc) . This way one exercise doesn't burn you out before the other.
However, I would like to concentrate on one exercise over the other, but with the second exercise do far less volume. In my case on my upper body days I'm doing chins and dips. So one workout would be chin-up ladders done to near 'max', followed by dip ladders but only consisting of 50%-75% volume of the previous time I took them to 'max'. Next time I'd do dips first taken to near max, then chins for 50%-75% of the previous time I did them.
Alternatively I could stick to heavy/lighter/medium days overall but just do both exercises seperately. However I feel that the fatigue from focusing on one exercise first would influence how much volume I could do with the second exercise (hence I'm think focusing on one over the other than rotating exercise order around).
Is this possible? I understand I'd have to schedule in regular deloading across the board as I wouldn't be having fully light days, but I'd like to give it a shot for a while. I remember asking this kind of question 6 years ago (!) back on dragondoor and Steve Freides at the time and he said treating the exercises seperately is an option; Three Questions about Pull-Up Ladders in ETK (Pavel, RKC's?)
Let me know what you people think!
I understand the reasoning of picking typically picking 2 exercises for ladders and going back and forth between them (1 rep of each, then 2 reps of each etc) . This way one exercise doesn't burn you out before the other.
However, I would like to concentrate on one exercise over the other, but with the second exercise do far less volume. In my case on my upper body days I'm doing chins and dips. So one workout would be chin-up ladders done to near 'max', followed by dip ladders but only consisting of 50%-75% volume of the previous time I took them to 'max'. Next time I'd do dips first taken to near max, then chins for 50%-75% of the previous time I did them.
Alternatively I could stick to heavy/lighter/medium days overall but just do both exercises seperately. However I feel that the fatigue from focusing on one exercise first would influence how much volume I could do with the second exercise (hence I'm think focusing on one over the other than rotating exercise order around).
Is this possible? I understand I'd have to schedule in regular deloading across the board as I wouldn't be having fully light days, but I'd like to give it a shot for a while. I remember asking this kind of question 6 years ago (!) back on dragondoor and Steve Freides at the time and he said treating the exercises seperately is an option; Three Questions about Pull-Up Ladders in ETK (Pavel, RKC's?)
Let me know what you people think!
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