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It's uncanny!

Skipped straight to this after finishing the previous special. Opener was actually very exciting, once it got going. That give through the ropes into the corner and outside was crazy. It's was surprising that Spitfire won the tag titles, also shocked that it wasn't Decay with the titles! Their reign was pretty short, then? The tag titles changed to The System, I don't exactly like that, but the match was certainly exciting. Kon vs PCO was alright, I almost thought that Kon might actually take it for a second there. The Time Machine six man was very good and obviously all the better due to Good Hands changed to GYV. Shelley was rightfully still salty from the No Surrender and it cost them. Alexander vs Hammerstone was good, but it kinda seemed that Hammerstone didn't have his working shoes on, but I guess he was more of a clear-cut heel this time, as witnessed by the ending. Got to the Knockout's 3-way, but didn't start to watch it. This was Quality stuff so far!

Well, they could be like "Yay, I get to see it from my own couch, like it was meant to be!", but I guess not? As for rest of Dynamite, Young Bucks bumping the FTR video package due to "time constraints" because The Elite had a match next anyway, as well as Matthew micro-managing the commentary was dick-move brilliance, once again. As far as the trios match went, it's so funny to see PAC in almost any setting running circles around everyone else, to the point where it's like "it's kinda unfair that anyone should have to face this cyborg with a malfunctioning compassion chip in the ring". He can lose most of the time and still be about the most credible opponent for pretty much anyone. OC having no friends to combat STP ended up badly for him, despite getting the win. Ospreay vs Claudio was super, but what else could happen? Ospreay not being on the same page with the rest of the Callis Family was obvious to anyone, except for Callis, who is really grasping at straws at this point. Ospreay has no need for you and I'm pretty sure this will come to a head at Dynasty. Damn, Nana almost played the part of Paul Heyman, if it wasn't for Swerve's last second save. It sure feels like Swerve may indeed take it at the PPV, or we may be in for a big swer... er, surprise. I don't like putting this into the universe, but Hangman or Keith Lee could still be waiting in the wings to ruin things for him... let's hope not.

Finally got to the end of Supercard of Honor. The Stardom six woman match was high speed, indeed. Any addition of Stardom women into AEW women's division should be exciting. Kinda like in '95 WWF, the All Japan Women brought something completely new, albeit for one night back then. Both Women's title matches were very good. I wonder if Amanata will now challenge Athena next? Dalton vs Johnny TV was entertaining, but it's probably good that this one is over with. The tag title match was good enough, the six man open challenge was a good surprise, and the main event was intense af. Too bad that Briscoe finally winning the title is kinda like Tommy Dreamer winning the WWECW title back in 2009 at this point. Still, they created a wonderful moment and the match was indeed a war!

Got my "summer diet care package" in the mail earlier this week. Bunch of burners and essential amino acids plus one container of pre-workout/pump volumizer and a testo-booster. Yeah, the flu also got me good, but I am feeling a bit better now and if I had to get sick, this was definitely the time for it to happen, and not a few weeks from now. This way, I still have time to fully get over this before the diet actually starts.

Damn, I tried to do this too when I first read it, but couldn't get the rhythm right to go with the lines!

Um, yeah. The Seal Row wasn't great. I went up to 352, but probably shouldn't have, since it barely got off the ground. 308 wasn't much better, but 264 was half decent on the way back down, not so much on the way up. I did (over)compensate with the 220, doing a whole bunch of partial reps, way after the clean ones were not happening, and continued the same with 154. I did 2 sets of reverse grip barbell curls with the 154 again, 12 and 15 reps, respectively. At the start of the workout, I tried the 88lb single arm dumbell press, and yeah, no. Not even a little bit. The 66 lb went without trouble, though. There was a full amount of ab work at the end and I was also able to squeeze a 200lb gripper all the way closed for the first time with my right hand. Left one, still ways to go. Tonight could have been a lot better, as I felt fine when I got there, but I guess I hadn't recovered properly, as I was not feeling it. This doesn't exactly bode well for the Trapbar, but it is what it is. Edit: Yeah, I just knew something was up, and my throat started getting sore during the night and got worse during the day. So that ended up being the last workout of the week and probably for at least a few days next week as well. That sucks, but it sure has been a long time since I've had a flu or something.

Can I somehow cancel my order on Triller Tv, since I saw this match added? Nah, just kidding.

I did get a leg day in last night, but it was way more calf raises than squats and my quads feel a lot less destroyed than last week. As for squats, I used the machine for 10x190, 10x234, 10x328, 8x372, 7x416, 6x472. The 400+ were obviously just partials and not good ones at that, but 372's moved nicely. Calf raises were done in a pyramid-fashion with the same weights as the squats but starting from 234 on the way up and ending with 95, also between the squat sets and calf raises on the machine I did bodyweight calf raises during recovery time to maximize the effort. Considering that, my calfs don't feel too bad, so I'm not sure if it worked? Be that as it may, this shouldn't hamper the Trapbar too much, but fortunately I have Seal Row on tap before that one.

Man, that was a lot of wrestling. Penta has been cooking recently. The opener and the main event changing places worked out nicely. Dustin didn't get to finish his story, however. Joe vs Swerve will be interesting, no matter who comes out on top. I didn't mind the Punk footage being shown, since Bucks did a reasonably good job of making it a part of the story. Blaming FTR in a way for the whole thing was definitely a dick move. The FTR promo afterwards said "let's just please move on" and I see them being the voice of the fans in this, while Bucks get to be the voice of TK and CM, whichever side you want to look at it (as in "should let it go, but can't". It wasn't necessary, but I had no problem with it. Yeah, the Collision opener was excellent! I would like to see Andretti vs Matthews! Main event tag ruled as well, but Takeshita was more effective after the match, though.

Decided to do another "fun" workout tonight, since I probably woke up too early in order to get a bunch of AEW in. So, regular bench and dumbell curls on the Scott bench, for the most part. Started the bench with 5x164, 5x230, 5x252 and 5x263. Those went well. Then 3x274, 2x280 and "2"x285. Those didn't go well. Then back down to 3x263, 3x252 and 8x230, those were again a bit better. After that it was a bunch of reps with 164. First 12, then a bunch of 3's and 4's after a brief rest between each burst. With the dumbell, I did 4 sets for each arm, 8+8 with 53, 7+7 with 66, 6+6 with 75 and 7+7 with 61,5. Then pretty much the full amount of ab work in the end. So, this would mean a leg day tomorrow night. Let's see if that happens?

New week starts on Sunday night and I had an upper body onslaught on tap. 4 sets of incline dumbell bench with 88's, 3 of which were with the bench straight up and the last one was one notch down. 5, 7, 5 and 7 reps. Hammer curls after each set. They didn't go as well as they did last time. Several sets of resistance band lat pull-downs and push downs with the machine as well as the resistance band. More standing double bicep curls and curls on the incline bench. After the standing set and before bench curls, I did a slow and deep set of incline presses. This was an OK start for the week, too bad the night shift wasn't great and that will probably affect tonight's workout negatively.

I'm not aware of such things right off the bat, but obviously there are gloves such as MMA training gloves that come with gel padding on the knuckles. You may want to check out any web stores that sell boxing training equipment for example. If a glove like that is available, you may be able to find it in somewhere like that? Coincidentally enough, I was just browsing through training gloves and there ARE all kinds of interesting things available, but I can't say I saw ready-taped ones on those lists.

Oh, and I had some blood tests done, as we do for work every few years (I actually missed the last one due to it being during pandemic times) and everything they measured (this was more limited than I recall previously), came back within (or well within) "normal" range. Also, my hearing and blood pressure were both very good, so I'm very glad about all of that. Speaking of testing, we also tested new protective footwear for work and they had a new model with extra cushioning beneath the heels, so that should be pretty awesome for walking on concrete for 8 hours a day.

Probably why Zenk got into lifting weghts to begin with...