re: The Greyskull Methods- A Primer

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1. For chinups, I'm only getting to 3-4 on my AMRAP set. Should I begin to add weight as soon has I can do 5 reps? or should I wait until 7 or so?

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no, dont load until you can get 8 strict chest to bar with full dead hang.

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2. Regarding the homework bodyweight stuff. I'm concerned that it will interfere with recovery, particularly for the chinups which I'm already not completing my AMRAP set. Should I hold off on these until I can complete the working sets, or continue with the homework. For chinup homework, I'm doing 3 rep sets using the FM.

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do not hold off. these should be very very easy sets and should not interfere with recovery. if you currently do 3-4 on amrap, these sets should be 1 rep from a dead hang. set a number of total reps for the week, say 50 for week 1. try and average 10 sets of 1 for 5 days. or 7 sets of 1 for all 7 days. just get the total reps in for the week using sets of 1. work up until you are getting total of 100 reps for the week using the 1 rep method using jumps of about 10 reps per week, so 4-5 week progression

then go back to 50 reps, but do sets of 2, to get there. adding total reps until you get to 100

back off again to 50 using sets of 3.

so on and so fourth.