Mike and Marty,
I feel your pain in trying to implement Ladders Reloaded. As you know, Pavel is a minimalist, both in prescribing minimal exercise to get the job done and using words to describe how to do it. After about 20 rereads of the article, I finally sat down to write our a methodology to implement it, at least in how I understand it. As in all mathematical word problems, the arithmetic is really quite basic; it is the set up of the problem that is a challenge. To avoid cluttering the thread with a lot of verbiage, I am attaching a file with the methodology I used.
Mike,
I used your original request for how to do a 32 kg max press with Ladders Reloaded. I hope it helps.
Marty,
You are close to solving this but bear in mind that this is called Ladders Reloaded; therefore, you need to build ladders and not standard sets of 3. Whether you build 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 rung ladders with high or low reps, is a personal choice. I respond well to shorter ladders with fewer rungs but done multiple times. When younger I use to do 7,8.and 9 rung ladders done multiple times. You may do better with longer ones not repeated. I hope I help with my methodology. You really start learning the system by actually getting dirty and building the plan. I did the first 2 iterations by adopting the illustrative plan in the article. Now I feel I can do my own plan as well.
Good luck to you both.
Pete