Shartnado

The week started well enough, as my wife had a couple of extra days off and wanted me to join her for her morning jog/run. The weather was fine, but I can't recall when was the last time I've actually went for a run this late in the year. We weren't going fast, but we went for a full hour. My quads were toast afterwards. I tried my best to stretch them out at work and rode home extra leasurely, but they are still stiff as hell. Luckily, the workout was bench and curls, so legs weren't a real issue there. The weekend's carb-loading did help, as the attempted 8x4x275 was much closer to reality than many previous attempts. Each set had at least the first one actually clean and all the way down to the chest, but yes, there were a shitload of partials in there too. Warm up was 5x132, 3x220, 3x242, 2x253, 2x264. After the heavy sets I did a decidedly ugly 4x264 then slightly better 4x242, 10x220 and 26x132. Between sets, I did EZ bar curls with 87 lbs, sets of 12, for about 6 sets, after that it was light side delt work between each bench set. I should go for something light today as well, but the only other heavy day will be Thursday, so that must be trapbar, as I need to clear the 200kg mark without using the Versa Grips this week. Wednesday and Friday will most likely be off days.

Masato Tanaka, but point taken.

Wow, at least some former NWA World Heavyweight Champions must be spinning in their graves about now... but sadly, not for the reasons they ought to be.

TK said he was working on it earlier in the year, and he actually was able to come through for Eddie! That's great!

I'm medium-sized, at the very most, but I will take that as a compliment, thank you!

There's a couple of skits on the Iliza Shlesinger Show on these guys!

Ok, I'm very glad Cage is advancing, and I was impressed by Martin's double bicep pose. Surprisingly nice arms on him. Jungle Boy needs revenge. Steel cage sounds like it is going to be very bad for his health, but Christian Cage isn't going to climb, erm, cage with one arm, right? Espesially with the left one, right? While I'm all in on Bandido, can what happened there with Rush be considered... a high-way robbery? OC having a mic on stand-by just to mess with Mark Henry is good stuff. Another active title defence, even if it came at the cost of one dead Danhausen. I can't believe the baddies didn't use that opportunity to steal the TBS title back for Jade. Not super competent. So, the House of Black is coming back, but this time they are EVIL? Where the hell are you guys gonna go from here? ...oh, that's exactly where.

This is very true. If I'm healthy enough to go in the first place, it's very seldom I feel like I really shouldn't have bothered, after the workout is done!

I'm fully aware. I'm not trying to claim he's not on every substance known to mankind. I'm just saying it's working like a charm.

The (even more) funny thing about this is that if you'd actually put Billy Gunn's current photo up, it would be way more jacked than the younger photo. These people have all aged very gracefully, but Billy is indeed on the R-Truth scale, even in this crew!

So yeah, the rest of my week. After taking Monday off, I went for 3 rounds of Pull up, Dip, Reverse Shrug-combo, but only with 55lbs of extra weight. After those, it was a whole bunch of resistance band work in the form of lat pull-downs and chest flies. On Wednesday, my thoughts were "the only reasonable options for this evening are either trapbar or another day off", so yes, I did a bunch of calves. So trapbar was on Thursday. No standing on the platform this week, either. Started with 12x140, 6x196, 5x306, 5x427 and 3x438 without Versas. Thank you, magnesium, you magnificent bastard! Next week, I shall pass the 200kg (444 lbs would be the next step) mark before putting the Versas on. Then I did 1x526 off the floor and then the same on three separate times off 3cm platforms. Then it was shrug-time. Some 20 reps with 438, then more with 306, 218 and 196. I was trying to eat more this week, but it so rough at work at the moment that the weight keeps going slowly down during the week, so I try to do what I can to recoup during the weekend, which is now, thankfully.

Shit, @Curt McGirt that sound awful. Why does it always have to pour, when it rains? Hope things don't go worse from here. Hang in there!

A lot to unpack here, and I'll edit it in later, but I just have to point out one highlight: I burst out laughing when Skye Blue went "Since I'm here, I might as well kick Rebel in the face", proceeded to do that and Rebel dropped like a sack of shit, despite only peacefully existing a mere second prior. That was glorious. And a lot of other awesome shit happened too. More on that later. ...I tried to edit a bunch of stuff in, but the page froze and I lost all of it. Not typing it again. I'll just say Danielson finally proving he's a great wrestler by hitting a poison rana in a match was cathartic. I guess him actually winning in the end was, too!

Well, it's "something that tastes good" in Finnish. That makes it kinda funny for me, as well.

As I was about to start to watch Elevation and noticed Final Battle had become available to pre-order, so I made it official and got mine as early as possible. Here's to hoping the card ends up being worth the wait.

Started this week early, going in on Sunday evening, despite deciding against it on Friday. It was a bench workout with a flipped rep to set ratio trying for 8x4x270. Well, I did end up doing 6x4x270, but the last reps on most sets were rubbish. I also did 6x154, 3x242, 2x253, 1x259, 1x264 prior to the main sets and 4x264, 4x259, 4×253, 5×242 and 20×154 after. I did lat pull downs, light push downs and 5-7 reps per arm with a 30lb dumbell between sets and two long sets of shrugs with the pairs of plates(44's and 55's, respectively) while unloading the weights. The workout was Ok, but I obviously wasn't fully recovered yet from last week, so tonight it will be an extra day off before the night shift. Maybe Tuesday night I will feel better.

Holy crap what a week. Actually, the work week was rather nice for a change. Workout was beast mode, full 5, ending in trapbar today. Monday I was supposed to do 4x8x264 on bench, well that didn't work out, obviously. I started with 2x220, 2x242, 1x253 and 1x259, then got like 6 reps on the first set, probably more like 5, then 2 partials. After that, it got worse, but I ended up doing 7 sets with 264, still not getting near the 32 reps overall, but 20+ anyway. Then 4x253, 6x242, 6x220 and 22x132. There were latpulls and some chest flies with the resistance bands between those sets. Tuesday was more upper body stuff with nothing too heavy or consequential happening. Nice pump, concentrating more on the upper back. Wednesday was squat machine and calves. I did 4 sets of squats, 3 sets were 12 reps, deep, stopping at the bottom on most reps (175, 260, 350) then going down and doing half and quarter reps there with 420, going up to something like 15 "reps". Then the same weights for calves, but in reverse, with 3 sets with 420, with 2 or 3 different foot positions within sets, then one set with each lighter weight. Thursday was going apeshit on the arms and shoulders again with 83 on the EZ bar, 100 on the squatmachine's rack and 74,5 on two dumbells. Same as last week, I did 3 rounds of 12 reps of curls with EZ bar, 15 reps behind the neck OHP with it, then 6, 5 and 5 reps with the squatmachine rack for narrow grip OHP (that felt too hard from the get-go, so after the 3 rounds, I took it back down to 88, like last week), then 10 reps of incline dumbell bench press with the 2x74,5 each round and shrugs with those straight after. After 3 rounds of that I changed it up to hammer curl (12 reps each arm with the 74,5's), EZ Bar with reverse grip for forearms followed by the 15 reps of behind the neck OHP, then 7 reps with 88 narrow grip and did all that for 3 rounds as well. After taking weights off the dumbells, I did one more longer set of incline bench with a pair of 30's and the a set of curls with them as well. Then, it was trapbar. I didn't lift anything standing on th platform this week. I started with 12x140, 7x196, 5x306, 3x416 (without Versas, it may be a record, or close to it), then 2x515, 1x526, 1x537, 1x548 and then off the 4cm platforms, 1, 2, 2 and 1x559 (I failed it off the floor before these). Then shrugs. A set of 8 reps with 438 (which has to be a record for me), then 20+ reps with 328, some 50 reps with both 295 and 218, then close to similar range with the plates while unloading them. I have no idea how much I need to eat and sleep in order to recover from all this, but I'll be going to town on calories, like a middle-aged, mini-Wardlow, starting tonight.

Here to help, always!

Absolutely not. That's what makes it such a huge deal. From a health standpoint, someone must have cleared him to do so, but obviously, it is not in his best interest.

Ok, I got my Cage vs Joe. So, Hobbs vs Wardlow at Full Gear? With the Under Armour top on, Jarrett looked to be in decent shape still. Other than that, we shall see. I didn't have a problem with Jeff, since I didn't get to see his reigns of terror in TNA that much. OC is the most active champion in AEW, despite Mox and Jericho being very much in that game as well. That's a shocker, but with his whatever-attitude, I guess he might as well put it on the line constantly! Yay for Jungle Boy pushing Luchasaurus' shit back in! Big rematch at Full Gear? The Acclaimed's presents to Billy were nice enough in a "Dad, I made you a portrait out of macaroni"-kinda way, but let's face it, Donkey Club's present really sucked! "We got you W. Morrissey kicking you in the face!" You really shouldn't have. I really mean it. Swerve with no reprocussions from last week? Get the fuck outta here! Keith Lee needs to keep better company. Saraya is going to wait until next week to tell if she's cleared to wrestle? What if it's going to be "Well, actually I'm not"? Hayter vs Storm. Good. Was it Tony who said that Storm is in a tough spot for facing Hayter with all this momentum on Hayters' side? She may indeed walk out with the title. No MJF this week. So The House of Black is dead, or not dead but dreaming? Who's putting out these Delete Elite vingettes? I mean TK, probably, but I guess I'm asking "Why?" PAC constantly wanting it to be Hammer Time and Fenix going "I can't touch this" is gonna to lead them losing the trios belts, yet. Maybe back to The Elite? Cabana coming out to face Jericho was like *Captain America saying I get that reference*. The match was good for what it was. Will it be Ocho vs Claudio at Full Gear, or Final Battle? The Jericho run has so much more mileage left, I'd hate to see Claudio just regaining the title this soon. Shibata was something you don't see every day. Quite the Rampage coming up.

Brodus Clay was The FunkaSAURUS, at least, Ligerbusa flew over the top of my head like whooosh, but maybe others are clued in?

How close could they get to a Jurassic Park logo for a flag without getting sued?

I'd do it! Bring it on! But yeah, like @JLowe pointed out, looks like huge pancakes, actually.

So, that's like a literal "breakfast of champions"?

I'm pretty sure you shall get that match in due time, but seems like Wardlow is next on Hobbs' menu!