diff --git a/coordinator/src/fetch.rs b/coordinator/src/fetch.rs
index e7452389..d0db6729 100644
--- a/coordinator/src/fetch.rs
+++ b/coordinator/src/fetch.rs
@@ -26,10 +26,34 @@ impl std::error::Error for FetchError {}
 // Fetching
 //=============================================================================
 
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
+pub enum Checkpoint {
+    Constant(u64),
+    BlockNumberNegativeOffset(u64),
+}
+
+impl Default for Checkpoint {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::BlockNumberNegativeOffset(1)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Checkpoint {
+    pub fn get_checkpoint(&self, block_number: u64) -> u64 {
+        match self {
+            Self::BlockNumberNegativeOffset(offset) if block_number > *offset => {
+                block_number - offset
+            }
+            Self::BlockNumberNegativeOffset(_) => 0,
+            Self::Constant(constant_value) => *constant_value,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Fetches the prover input given the [BlockSource]
 pub async fn fetch(
     block_number: u64,
-    checkpoint_block_number: Option<u64>,
+    checkpoint_method: &Option<Checkpoint>,
     source: &BlockSource,
 ) -> Result<ProverInput, FetchError> {
     match source {
@@ -42,11 +66,9 @@ pub async fn fetch(
             let fetch_prover_input_request = FetchProverInputRequest {
                 rpc_url: rpc_url.as_str(),
                 block_number,
-                checkpoint_block_number: match checkpoint_block_number {
-                    Some(checkpoint) => checkpoint,
-                    None if block_number == 0 => 0,
-                    None => block_number - 1,
-                },
+                checkpoint_block_number: checkpoint_method
+                    .unwrap_or_default()
+                    .get_checkpoint(block_number),
             };
 
             match fetch_prover_input(fetch_prover_input_request).await {
diff --git a/coordinator/src/input.rs b/coordinator/src/input.rs
index 7d809c54..c53f2547 100644
--- a/coordinator/src/input.rs
+++ b/coordinator/src/input.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 //! This module contains a lot of the important input structs
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
-use crate::benchmarking::BenchmarkOutputConfig;
+use crate::{benchmarking::BenchmarkOutputConfig, fetch::Checkpoint};
 
 /// The means for terminating.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -95,8 +95,9 @@ pub struct ProveBlocksInput {
     /// The starting block number
     pub start_block_number: u64,
     /// The checkpoint block number.  If not provided, will be the
-    /// `start_block_number` - 1.
-    pub checkpoint_block_number: Option<u64>,
+    /// the block before the current block number, or
+    /// [Checkpoint::BlockNumberNegativeOffset] set to 1.
+    pub checkpoint: Option<Checkpoint>,
     /// The termination condition.  If not provided, will not terminate until
     /// exhausted or an error occurs.
     pub terminate_on: Option<TerminateOn>,
@@ -135,12 +136,4 @@ impl ProveBlocksInput {
     pub fn estimate_expected_number_proofs(&self) -> Option<u64> {
         self.get_expected_number_proofs()
     }
-
-    /// Returns either the checkpoint value or the start block number - 1
-    pub fn get_checkpoint_block_number(&self) -> u64 {
-        match self.checkpoint_block_number {
-            Some(checkpoint) => checkpoint,
-            None => self.start_block_number - 1,
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/coordinator/src/manyprover.rs b/coordinator/src/manyprover.rs
index 614ca05a..220ae341 100644
--- a/coordinator/src/manyprover.rs
+++ b/coordinator/src/manyprover.rs
@@ -120,9 +120,6 @@ impl ManyProver {
                         "Forwarding proofs with parallel not supported",
                     )));
                 }
-                warn!(
-                "There are some issues with forward_prev = true, would recommend leaving it false"
-            )
             }
             Some(false) | None => (),
         }
@@ -263,7 +260,8 @@ impl ManyProver {
             // FETCHING
             debug!("Attempting to fetch block {}", block_num);
             let fetch_start_instance = Instant::now();
-            let prover_input = match fetch(block_num, None, &input.block_source).await {
+            let prover_input = match fetch(block_num, &input.checkpoint, &input.block_source).await
+            {
                 Ok(prover_input) => prover_input,
                 Err(err) => {
                     error!("Failed to fetch block number: {}", block_num);
@@ -705,7 +703,7 @@ impl ManyProver {
             let fetch_start_instance = Instant::now();
             let prover_input = match fetch(
                 cur_block_num,
-                None, // input.checkpoint_block_number,
+                &self.input_request.checkpoint,
                 &self.input_request.block_source,
             )
             .await