What is a "Progressive Max Ladder"?

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Chris asked: 

Hey guys, this is my first post here. First off I want to thank you all for the ton of work you’ve put into this site and the amazing book. I just got my autographed copy in the mail the other day and it is already looking well used



I have one quick question to start off: what do you mean by “progressive max ladders” in the campusing section? Maybe I just missed it, but I can’t seem to find anywhere an explanation of what this exercise entails.



Keep up the awesome work gents!



Chris

[MarkAnderson]

Chris,

Glad you like the book! "Progressive Max Ladder" is simply a term we made up to describe attempting several sets of progressively more difficult "Max Ladders" over the course of a workout, or Phase.

For example, suppose your Baseline Max Ladder is 1-3-5 (or B1-L3-R5-B5 and B1-R3-L5-B5 to be overly descriptive). If you were doing "progressive max ladders" you would try to improve upon that baseline, by attempting 1-3.5-5.5, or 1-3.5.5. If you stuck those, you would then try 1-3.5-6, and so on.

[stanleybaker]

Super old thread, but it was answering what I came here to find.

Hey Mark, I'm wondering on the increments you choose to add to.

1-3-5
1-3-6

What's next?

1-3-7, or 1-4-6?

What's after that?

[MarkAnderson]

1-4-6 is a lot easier than 1-3-7. It's always going to be easier to do a bigger 1st move than a bigger 2nd move, even if the finish rung stays the same (so 1-4-6 is easier than 1-3-6), because you have two arms pulling from the optimal position.

[stanleybaker]

So if I can reliably do 1-3-6, what's the next goal? 1-3-7? 1-4-7?

[MarkAnderson]

I would think 1-4-7. But, have you considered just trying both of them? Surely that's easier and more reliable than performing an internet survey

[stanleybaker]

If both are equally impossible it's hard to know which impossible one is the right one to aim at.

And in reality I'm still on 1-3-6 (I got it with my right hand once!), I'm just curious on where to head afterwords.