Keep a blog man. Seriously. yU shud.

1. Perhaps your load was lower than your average workout. As you progressed, you got stronger and thus didn't feel the soreness.

2. My forearms are actually thicker than my biceps (not triceps). All I do is pull, squat, rush under and push really hard.

3. I wouldn't have followed this program ever. Ever. It seems he addresses issues like flexibility, mobility, stability/balance, with the help of the bent presses and deadlifts to build total strength. It seems to be built for people who lack time and access to more equipment or guys that want to build this wiry strength kinda thing. I believe in specificity in getting stronger, but I also believe in ample supplementary movements. I'm not quite the advocate of a Bulgarian/East European style of constant max.

4. No shit Sherlock.

5. Overtraining doh. I got it when I was training about 3 hours per sessions, 2 sessions a day, 6 times a week.

Then again, I know of a guy Pat Mendez, that squats 340KG. He's been training weightlifting for 19 months and weighs at 134KG. Snatches 182.5 and cleans 220KG. 19 months training. Know how he trains? 14x a week Power naps after morning sessions.

Snatches to a max, then does somewhere between many sets of triples to singles
Clean and jerks to a max and then singles to triples, for sets.
Squats to a max and then gets pinned then repeats.

Sicko.

I don't know if you guys have noticed, but almost every darned strength program out there works on the same foundation.
Don't talk about bodybuilding specific workouts. I'd like to talk about being strong and big and not big and .....(choose ur own sentence)

You take a compound movement, the regular here is squat, deadlift and bench.

You do many many sets to strengthen certain positions where leverage is weak (and thus muscle activation is maximally recruited in order to control the angle and keep it close to the COG (center of gravity)

You work a supportive muscle right after that with a compound movement if you can still exert force. If you can't move into machines and isolation movements.

Another one is, they take a compound movement and then work it to about 70%. Then they get another compound movement, and make you exert about another 60% of strength. These movements are somehow or rather complementary to each other.

I'll use a few examples.

Pavel Bear - Strength (deadlift), supplementary (bent press)
Boris Sheiko - Strength (Crazy repetition squats, heavy load deads, then squats again)
Westside Barbell - Strength (Squat, deadlift, bench variation) supplementary (unilateral/dynamic/assisted work)
Bench Experts, Metal Militia - Strength (Bench for 2 hours), assisted (rows, dumbbell presses, pulldowns, pullups)
Dan John - Power clean, squats, press (P.C for power, squats for strength, press for strength)
Madcow and Rippetoe - Need I say more?
Russian and Chinese programming - Always a "target" lift and then supplementary workouts to strengthen it.

Oh yeah I can attest to this. I changed my technique slightly (knee caved in) and my hip drive became so much more powerful. Switched my technique slightly (or rather how I thought of how to execute the snatch) and ripped 103KG off the ground from 97KG.

Yeah, thicker forearms because I need to grip the bar. Try ripping a 130KG bar into the air. Requires a bit of grip.

If you can't do back squats, there's actually the safety squat bar which chances are you have no access to. Another option, is just to put 2 towels, on the bar, put the bar on your back and just pull at the towel. Not exactly the safest option, so I'd rather go between rep ranges of 4-6.