Chin Ups with palms facing you are terrible for your elbows and wrists, and Pull Ups can damage your shoulders. The very best is close grip neutral Chin Ups or Ring Ups. I suggest trying those. This is a crazy generalization and pretty alarmist. I've never met anyone with shoulder problems from pul...

You can also invest to or DYI loading t- hadle. That can serve a great deal of steady progression with heavy swings. Great idea, had never though of that. Looks like you can make one pretty cheaply. Or you can use two barbells side by side. You have to do extra work to keep them from spinning though

I will add you can use linear progression with TB templates if you approach it in a different fashion. If you're doing the standard cluster of BP/SQ/PU or DL, rather than adding weight every session you can add weight every week. This way you get 2-3 good sessions in with the same weight before bum...