My WIP routine - Calisthenics ULPPL

[tired peak]

Give the whole block of training

Your split is also excessively complicated

What are your reasons for not doing the RR

Also 4 sets is fine

If you can do them fine

It’s all context dependent on the whole block

And I don’t have the whole block there so its hard to judge

Doing the same thing every week without a defined progression scheme isn’t a good idea

When you’re starting at 4x10 for example

You can only really go down from there

4x10 -> 3x8 -> 2x5 -> 1x5

With increasing load

And that’s hard to do with something you can’t load

Like a pushup

Because the alternative is to go up

That’s what I meant by context

I don’t know what those numbers mean

Is it your starting week training, last week training, etc.

Or did you intend to do the same thing every week

Hence why I would recommend you write out the whole block

You’ve done the RR, for a while, how do you think you could mimic the progression week by week

Try it out then. I think I know what will happen, but it’ll be a good learning experience

So I have a question for you

If you plateaued using that progression

Why would changing the split change anything?

How much less close to failure is it

So let’s say you’re doing 4x8 right now

Rr would have you doing 3 x 10

4 x 8 = 32
3 x 10 = 30

Looking at it that way, I would argue you are doing more volume

And it’s not just “the same divided more evenly across a week”

Do you have notes from when you did the RR

I can take a look at the spreadsheet

I don’t expect you to have a notebook

But if you did I can give you better advice

Well you can try whatever you’re doing and report back

I would recommend to think about where along the rr

Progress started to plateau

And see if it manifests similarly in your new routine

Along the same time periods

I didn’t take a deep look at your routine, but assuming it is similar in structure to RR

It shouldn’t have any glaring issues

Sure

Give it a few months and compare the progress

In general there isn’t a set guideline for how many sets you can do in a day

I’ve done as many as 10 sets for one exercise

But like I said it’s very context dependent

I wouldn’t be doing 10x10, but 10x1 makes more sense

Yes

In general if you manage 10-15 weekly sets a week for a muscle group

It is enough

Keep in mind compounds movements target multiple muscles

Hence why having both a horizontal and vertical pull is important

They both contribute to volume in overlapping muscles

If you think about

Diagonal is just a combination of the two

But in reality it is mostly still horizontal

You’d think it’s a mix of both

But it’s biased more to horizontal

So i would still consider it that

[rough bane]

I like it, maybe too much leg for me lol. Just stick with it and after a couple weeks you'll be able to tell if it's too much volume or not (in which case I'd take off some accessory work)