I wasn't expecting to actually be able to do a pull-up at this point; I just thought I'd be closer.
I was able to test my lat pull-down at the end of stage 5, and I could do a rep of 88% of my bodyweight. It's possible I could have done a bit more than that but couldn't test it because the next weight interval the machine allowed was too much, but however close I was to bodyweight, doing stage 6 let me make up the difference. So yeah, if you're pretty close by the end of stage 5, be hopeful!
I highly recommend inverted rows to anyone who doesn't have access to a lat pull-down machine; since you're doing 2 reps per set you really do want to be pulling as much weight as you can manage. (I'd also do a couple of inverted rows whenever I walked by a sufficiently heavy piece of furniture, so that probably helped things too.) For stage 5 I used three-point-rows instead of lat pulldowns, but inverted rows would be good here too.
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I was able to test my lat pull-down at the end of stage 5, and I could do a rep of 88% of my bodyweight. It's possible I could have done a bit more than that but couldn't test it because the next weight interval the machine allowed was too much, but however close I was to bodyweight, doing stage 6 let me make up the difference. So yeah, if you're pretty close by the end of stage 5, be hopeful!
I highly recommend inverted rows to anyone who doesn't have access to a lat pull-down machine; since you're doing 2 reps per set you really do want to be pulling as much weight as you can manage. (I'd also do a couple of inverted rows whenever I walked by a sufficiently heavy piece of furniture, so that probably helped things too.) For stage 5 I used three-point-rows instead of lat pulldowns, but inverted rows would be good here too.