@ Rockula: Don’t be, Count. In a couple of years, you too will be repping posters long-gone in an attempt to make yourself seem older and more hardcore.
@ Pch2: A landmine row is… much easier to explain if you have a picture, and I don’t, so I’m gonna go it with text and just use a thousand or so words. A ‘landmine’ is an exercise machine that has a place for plates on one end and the other rooted to the ground in some way.
The machine I specifically use has handles placed on top of it in such a way that you can straddle the pipe (insert joke… LOL at context of ‘insert’) and take variety of grips. I use a neutral, relatively narrow grip (about eight inches across, maybe less). Then I row explosively. Does that make sense?
I’d read the Boyle article before, but there’s a couple of things that nag me about ab-rollouts. First though, I like them because they keep the core musculature practicing stability. Boyle is keen on that, and I think he’s right on the money.
The progression seems… odd…though. I don’t know. In theory, so long as you improve the reps, increase the number of reps per set, increase the number of sets, or whatever, you’re improving on the exercise. But I really like exercises where I can just increase the weight linearly.
I hate trying to improve the quality of the reps (going for longer rollouts or pausing at the end for a moment or fifteen) because it’s too easy to cheat myself. I appreciate the input, and it’s possible I’ll come back to them, but… I’m trying out weighted decline sit-ups, and right now it’s leading me in a happy direction.
Box squats have always seemed like one of the most retarded exercises on the face of the planet. Tate addresses all the reasons for this in his article. I’m not convinced. When I’m squatting 730, I’ll give them a try.
I realize I just spent like, fifteen minutes explaining why I’m not taking the advice I specifically asked for. I have no reason other than, while the advice was good and reasonable and well-researched, in the meantime I either found something I think will work better or I’m not quite willing to change.
I apologize for that. Hopefully in the coming weeks I will have progress to show for my rudeness and stubbornness.
Also, in case GrayCrane is reading this, I AM making progress, and I’m pretty sure I’ll hit 3/4/5 in June. Prepare yourself 
EDIT: it took me fifteen minutes to write and re-write those first few paragraphs in a way to make it make sense. Hopefully it will take not quite so long to read them.
Did not get a workout in over the weekend. So now I’ve been about a week without conditioning. It shows.