The +1 Method · chapter 5: The +1 Ramp
The ramp made visual
2026-09-15
Day N is N reps of each of the five moves, so the day's total is five times the day number. Times are mine, at my pace, rests included; yours will be different. The day axis is not to scale, so the bars jump: the real growth is a straight line of one rep per move per day. The dotted extension past day 180 is arithmetic, not a plan.
Below: the paragraph from the book that builds this idea, then the diagram itself (Figure 5.1), and a recap. About a minute of reading.
The first two weeks are almost nothing. Day 14 is fourteen of each move, seventy reps in total, a few minutes standing next to your bed. Around day 30 it starts to feel like exercise. Around day 60 it starts to need a plan for when in the day it happens. Figure 5.1 lays the milestones out with the rough times from my own run, so you can see the shape of the thing before you commit to it.
Recap
- The idea: Day N is N reps of each of the five moves, so the day's total is five times the day number.
- The picture: Figure 5.1, from chapter 5 ("The +1 Ramp") of The +1 Method.
- Go deeper: the chapter builds this step by step, with recipes and sources at the end.
This diagram is one of many in The +1 Method.
Every chapter opens with the gist, draws the hard ideas, and ends with recipes and sources.
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