2/16/2012 Monday and Wednesday Sunday 1 hour, Monday and Wednesday 45 mins stepmill MOnday -ab pulldowns and standing pulldowns with ab straps 8x8 per exercise -floor press worked up to 375x5x3 with 2 softess pads -dumbell inclines 3x20 - Wednesday -managed some decent squats. box with briefs and buff bar. 415x5,455x5,505x5,545x5,595x5, 645x1,685x1,735x1,775x1 -suspension strap ab roll outs 3 x8 -semi stiff leg 315x10x2 -THe squats took a really long timebut all the guys ended with great numbers. This was the last hard week of the pyramid with a ending at 105%x1.This is briefs only off a box so these are some good numbers. Barry(275) ended with 795x1 Dale(308) ended with 955x1 Mike(old 220er) ended with 645x1(without a box) It seems the transfer rolled over into the deadlift too. Dale 705x2 PR Mike(500x2) best in meet is 507 I think Although I got banged up and had to back out on half of the squatting. Pull wise, the speed picked back up and the old pop seemed to be there again. I think the most important part of this cycle other then the large volume was the sheer uncomfortableness of it. Knowing the weights were set and the volume that was to be done that had not been attempted before. Being out of your comfort zone in any training I think is paramount to any success. Dale is going to do a write up on this 6 week run so look for that in teh next couple of weeks. Now the next layer of torture. Spud