How do you progress with bodyweight exercises?

[Dies Irae]

I have read Pavel's Power to the People and he shows how cycling is what you should do to keep progressing and avoiding plateaus.

 

But his program of course is for weights, where you can calibrate things exactly.

 

But you can't do this with bodyweight exercises, unless you were to do them weighted.

 

But since you will be doing most of them unweighted, what do you do to progress?

 

All the exercises have starting variations and then they have the most difficult ones.

 

Do you just like pick the variation that you can do a few good reps with, stick with that one until you can do a lot of reps, and then just try a harder variation, and keep on going like that indefinitely?

 

For example there is an exercise you do with the rings that is called ring curls. Do you just choose the height of the rings and the placement of your feet that allows you to do 3-4 reps, and then just keep doing the exact same position until what you're doing gets "easy", and then you make it harder and keep going like that?

 

If you just keep doing the exact same variation workout after workout, will it eventually get easy or will this not work?

 

This seems to me like that step cycle in the book but i'm not sure.

[Brian Li]

Yes, you move on to a harder version once it gets easy to keep progressing.