The sixth week is what makes the first five work

Six rows, ruled. WK1 5x5 70%. WK2 5x5 75%. WK3 5x3 80%. WK4 3x3 85%. WK5 3x2 90%.

Then WK6: 3x5 60%, annotated DELOAD, in orange.

Five weeks climb. The sixth one drops. That's not the plan finishing early — that's the plan.

What does this table actually describe?

A set of lifts written as a percentage of a maximum the reader already knows and the shirt never states.

70%, 75%, 80% and the rest only mean something against a specific number — a one-rep max that exists in one gym, on one bar, for one lifter. The block doesn't print that number, because it's the one figure that changes the whole table's meaning depending on who's reading it, the same way a bouldering grade only says where somebody currently stands rather than what the rock actually is. Everything here is relative. Nothing here is absolute.

Why do the sets get shorter as the percentage climbs?

Because heavier weight and higher reps at the same time isn't a programme, it's a way to get hurt.

WK1 asks for five sets of five at 70% — moderate weight, more repetitions. By WK4 the load has risen to 85% and the reps have dropped to three sets of three. That trade-off runs through every week that climbs: as the bar gets heavier, the body is asked to do less work per lift, because the weight itself is now doing the job the reps were doing in week one.

What's the actual judgement call in a block like this?

Not the percentages — those are arithmetic. The judgement is picking the maximum they're measured against, and getting it honest.

A maximum that's slightly too generous compounds across five climbing weeks into a bar that's too heavy by the week that matters. The numbers on this table are only as good as the number that isn't on it, which is why two lifters running an identical six-row block can be doing entirely different weights and both be running it correctly — the same way a set of sight marks is calibrated to one bow and means nothing borrowed.

Can a real coach's or gym's programme go on this?

If a specific coach's named programme is the point, ask them — a published training block with a coach's name attached is their document, the same as any other written material, and coaches license their programmes for exactly this kind of thing.

Where the point isn't a specific coach, the invented version works just as well, because the structure — five climbing weeks, one that resets — belongs to the sport rather than to any one person's spreadsheet. The mechanism is public. A named coach's particular numbers aren't.

Does the same structure work outside a barbell?

Yes — anywhere a plan has to climb in controlled steps and then back off before it breaks something.

Swimmers, cyclists and runners all run versions of the same shape under different names: load climbs for several weeks, then a lighter week resets before the next climb begins. A block built around a different lift, or a different sport's numbers entirely, works as a gift for someone starting a programme the same way a pace band works for someone who hasn't run the distance yet — both describe a plan for a day that hasn't happened.

Skipping WK6 doesn't skip the risk

It just moves the risk off the page.

A lifter who runs WK1 through WK5 and keeps climbing instead of dropping back for WK6 hasn't beaten the programme — they've deleted the row that was protecting the other five. Ninety per cent in WK5 is only survivable because WK6 exists. A block that ends at 90% and simply stops isn't a finished programme. It's an injury with a schedule, and the schedule was right there on the shirt.

Does it print well?

Yes, as a ruled table rather than a chart — numerals and a grid, no curve to render at all.

Charcoal and cream keep it close to a page torn from a training log. Save the orange for WK6 alone, so DELOAD is the one row the eye catches first even though it's the smallest number on the sheet — which is the whole point of the week it's marking.

How do I get one made?

Describe your block at JustOG — the lift, the percentages, and where the deload week sits. Pick a direction, drag the crop frame, see it composited on the real garment, and it's made to order and shipped.

Designs other people have published are in the shop.

Ninety per cent in week five, and a week six that goes backwards on purpose right underneath it.