Switching from The Giant X1 to Easy Muscle as my current training block

I got through the Monday Giant X1 workout fine but the sets that prescribed reps close to my Clean + Press rep max of 7 were pretty tough for me. I took at look at what Giant X1 prescribes for my Wednesday workout, and did not feel I could handle it.

I then took a look at other Geoff Neupert hypertrophy programs that incorporate the C+P, and thus share similar characteristics to The Giant X. I wanted to continue trying to build muscle with the C+P but under a program that would not be as difficult for me as The Giant X.

• Easy Muscle Schedule A: 8-week C+P only program that I'd previously attempted with double 16kg kettlebells, but then had to switch to single KB training because not having the mobility for double KB press was hurting my shoulder.
• The original The Giant - specifcially 1.0 and 1.1: The Giant comes with 5 training schedules, each lasting 4 weeks: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2, and 3. 1.0 is the lowest difficulty level and is practically identical to the first half of Easy Muscle A. 1.1 is meant to be done after 1.0 if you want to do another 4 weeks of The Giant, but the difficultly level jumps a little more from 1.0 to 1.1

Between Easy Muscle A and original The Giant 1.0 I decided to switch to Easy Muscle A. I liked the ladder concept in Giant X1 but I underestimated just how difficult it would be for trainees working with weights that they cannot already C+P for 10 reps. Easy Muscle Schedule A also recommends training with the heaviest weights you can C+P for 10 reps, but it does not ask you to train too close to your rep max as early on as Giant X1 does.
The load cycling in Giant X is supposed to produce faster results compared to the original Giant but the higher rate of progress does not come for free - you're going to work harder for those faster results. While I'm not built right now to handle the demands of Giant X, I'm not ruling out trying again in the near future. One possible scenario is finding a C+P rep max of 3 with double 20kgs and a rep max higher than 10 with double 16 kgs - in this case I'd favor the ligher weights because I know the lighter weights would allow me train with consistently higher volume compared to the heavier weights. I'd probably be looking for a more challenging way to train double 16k C+P than Easy Muscle and Giant X would be a possible choice. One of the original Giant programs is also a possibility as some of them are challenging in their own right. Those programs are all 4 weeks long - I could choose of 2 or even 3 of them. For example I could do Giant 1.1 then 1.2 for 8 total weeks of hypertrophy training, with the option of following 1.2 with Giant 2 to extend my hypertrophy block to 12 weeks.

While Easy Muscle Schedule A is more suitable to my current fitness level, it's still a routine that requires effort to produce results, and it's effort that will make me sweat, get my blood pumping, and make me breathe harder. Completion of this schedule should get me closer to my goal of being able to double C+P 20kg kettlebells, which itself would be yet another step towards the more ambitious goal of double C+P with 32kg KBs.

As it is, the Wednesday workout under Easy Muscle looks less daunting than it would have been if I stuck with Giant X1.