We got a question about what makes a workout advanced. I’ll tell you, it’s very hard to write workouts plans for the public because most people just don’t understand them. You have to write workout plans to give people something to aim at, not something they can do immediately. i wrote a workout plan for a website and they complained that men couldn’t do 50 pullups total. What they meant was their lazy readers couldn’t do 50 pullups. Any man who actually trains rather than simply reads articles is capable of working up to 50 pullups. And that’s the goal, to work UP to something, not pander to people by giving them something pathetic that will get them no progress.
Many “advanced workouts” are just longer than beginner or advanced workouts because that’s easier for the author to write. For advanced, you simply do twice as much as the beginner level, and you get twice as bored. In Kettlebell Quest, I avoided that by having the exercises progress from easier to harder so that the workout time doesn’t just get longer. To me, that’s a sign of an advanced workout. You should be able to do harder exercises as you get better. But i have to tell you, a lot of people don’t like that and think it’s arrogant or too elite. A lot of people want to be pandered to and told they are elite when they clearly are not. And advanced level has to be earned.