In December of 2005, Toney left his home in Atlanta and headed off to Seattle, where he would live and breathe bodybuilding for 12 weeks under the guidance of trainer Anthony Aponte. Freeman had just pulled a hamstring and could not train legs at all, which created a unique opportunity to improve the two areas that truly needed it: chest and arms. Both were hit three times a week, chest in the morning and arms at night. And when I say hit, they were whacked with no mercy. Biceps and triceps each got five or six different exercises, and the total number of sets averaged between 55 and 57. The reps were the standard 10 to 12, but many times Aponte would extend the sets with 5 or 6 more forced reps. “He would pick up where the muscle would fail,” Toney says. “It was very intense. The pain felt like a blowtorch, more so because he demanded that I kept the form strict no matter how much it hurt.” It was pure torture, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel of pain. Freeman’s arms went from 21 inches cold to 22 1/2 inches by the time he left Seattle.