Old Forum question about 2,3,5 ladders

[Calthrop]

Hi. As I wrote before, I have reached one of the ROP goals - pressing half of bodyweight - but because I still have one goal to achieve, I want to keep on doing my C&P ladders. Cleaning with 40kg bell is still poor sometimes, so instead of ruining my wrist, I am following one of Your advices and doing 2,3,5  ladders with 32kg (and some easy GTG with 40kg in variety days). After reaching 2,3,5 x 10 I'm supposed to try ladders with 40kg.

 

Question is short and simple: how does this kind of ladder look like in medium and easy day? Should I be doing 2,3 x 10 in medium day and 2 x 10 in easy day? If not, how else?

Thanks for any tips

 

[luciusluke]

In medium do 75% of your heavy day

In light do 50% of your heavy day.

If your heavy day is 2,3,5x10. 100 reps.

Then your medium day should have 75 reps. 2,3,5x7 + 1x1,2,2 or 1x5. Or you can just leave 2,3,5x7. No need for being pedantic about numbers.

Your light day should have 50%. So you can stop 2,3,5x5.

This schedule is always working for me. Just get those reps.

 

 

[Rickard]

I use the system of medium being 2,3 and light being 2. It gives you quite the  volume jumps and I like it because I think 10x2,3,5 is killer. Done this twice and both times I started with 5x2,3,5 on my heavy day cause I reckoned I would have about 6 weeks until I got mighty tired of doing this type of high volume higher intensity ladders.

 

One time I took two weeks of doing PM afterwards then did 3x2,3,5,10 and increased over a few weeks to 5x2,3,5,10. Killer even with a light kettlebell. I think one should go fairly light when doing that type of ladder. I think I might have overdone it but the very little time I used on it made it work. (think Dan Johns everything works for 2 weeks nothing for 6 weeks type of idea)

 

[Calthrop]

So I've got two very different opinions.

I personally feel like 2,3 in medium day and 2 in easy would make more humane variant. Currently I'm doing 7 ladders in heavy day, 5 in medium and 3 in easy, all 2,3,5 but I have to say - this way even easy day ain't easy at all.

May I ask for more opinions to patch this thing up?

 

[Pavel]

Adam, congratulations on sticking to the plan and reaching the goal!

There are many ways to organize the medium and the light day.  One thing I would not do is climb the ladder as high as on the heavy day.

2,3 x 10 on medium day and 2 x 10 in easy day is very fine.