You either love or hate Martins Licis but I thought this was a great idea (see below).
You must be able to complete 5x10 pullups (assuming no injury) otherwise you’re too big for your strength/muscle mass. So if he can’t get it (which he can’t now), he stops piling on mass until he can.
I really like this kind of indicator type feedback over scales and a generic rate of gain. Now there are problems (eg. actually getting to 5x10) but I’d love to hear other indicators people might have.
I have a really similar but scaled approach. If I can do pull-ups as well as or better than when I was lighter, I’m good. What I mean is as long as my pull-up numbers don’t go down, I’m good. If they go up, even better.
I started lifting with that BW bar bros stuff. Once I built up to 12+ pull ups in the first place I’ve always been able to bang out at least 10 BW ones for kicks.
Should I adjust for being better at pull ups or have I never really bulked enough?