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OMG, what a F'n PPV, once again! A few things aside the matches: - The crowd was amazing! They seemed appropriately appreciative of pretty much everything and weren't completely "let's make this about us", which was awesome. They were super into Strong vs O'Reilly and even gave heat to Jericho. Go away heat, but heat nonetheless. If Jericho can get "Learning Tree" over, then he truly is one of the greatest. I have to say, I have my doubts about that one. - The match placement was stellar. Start with 2 exciting, big matches, then get all of the "undercard material" out of the way and finish off with 3 mega matches at the end. Still sounded like the crowd WASN'T even blown out by the end of it! Ospreay vs Danielson lived up to the expectations and then some. So many amazing things. The ending was absolutely phenomenal. The ladder match ended up being wonderful and Jungle Turd returning made the All In footage way more logical in retrospect. Good call. Big day for Swerve. This was definitely the way to go, he could not lose another big one. So, Malakai vs Copeland, instead of Brody vs Copeland? C'mon, Adam, face all 3 of them in separate matches, yeah? Jay White gets his revenge on Billy Gunn and unifies the titles, another right call. Adam Cole walks! I feel bad for Willow if she's just keeping the title warm for Mone. Let's see where it goes. It was probably Statlander who attacked Mone in the dark, right? It will be interesting to see, who goes after The Timeless One next? She solidified her title reign with this win. I watches this in two portions, including the zero hour and this was worth more than what I paid for it, so it ended up being a bargain!

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...

It's pretty weird that Tom Zenk had Brady Boone's high school hairdo for much of his career, while Boone himself went with more of a mullet.

Considering how she has interjected herself between Willow and Julia by challenging the winner already, that reference should be very topical sooner than later.

I'm so far behind on my Impacts, but TNA+ has informed me that there will be a THIRD match between Walking Weapon and Alex Hammerstone. This means there is a second match between them on Impact somewhere! I'm so stoked! The first match was such a war!

The first 5 workout week in a long time. I did legs and calves on the squat machine on Wednesday. Went up to 467, but that didn't move very well, but 423 went surprisingly well and 364 went deep on several reps. Did calves on the way up, after each squat set and then just calves after the 467 set. My legs were really messed up the next day. It's been a while since squats, for sure. Thursday was mostly seal row and some chest flies with dumbells on the floor and with resistance bands. I started with 154, then 198, 242, 286, 330, 286, 242, 198 and 154. To be honest, only 242 and lower went really well, but I did what I could with the rest of them. Also did revese grip curls with 154 before and after all the sets. 12 and 6 rep, respectively. Today was Trapbar. Started with deficit lifts, as usual. 5x133, 5x265, 4x375,5, but once again ran into trouble with 469 and ended up doing 2 separate singles with Versas from the floor level. Then to the blocks. Did 2x565 off the half blocks and 2x665 off the 3/4 blocks, then 2x760 off the full blocks and 3 separate singles with 848 without shoes. Then, with shoes 2x760, 6x665 and with rest-pause, 15x565. Then shrugs with 475,5 (about 13 reps), 381 (some 30ish reps), 271 (a lot of reps) and 133 (maybe for a minute straight, maybe). Limited ab work for the finish. This was quite the week for a change.

Only got until the introductions of the Stardom 6-woman tag, but the opener was just insane, and on the pre-show Blake Christian and The Artist Formerly Known as Black Taurus brought it as well! I also enjoyed the first match of the pre-show, but was also cooking at the same time, so I missed parts of it

I tried to achieve the super-pump on Monday, I did OK, but not what I described last week, for sure. Started with 3 sets of incline dumbell bench with 88's and hammer curls. 7, 8 and 7 reps on the bench and hammer curl went nicely this time. I did several sets of lat pull downs with resistance bands and push downs with the lat pull down machine. 4 sets of 15 or so reps of reverse grip curls on the EZ Bar with 108 lbs. Standing double bicep curls with 44's and 39,5's, then 35's and 31's sitting on the incline bench. Also did a few reps of incline dumbell bench, slow and deep with each of those weights. There were some sets of side delt raises and some pretty good ab work in the end. The pump? 44 cm on each arm. Continued on a similar path on Tuesday, but that was probably not a great idea. I did regular bench and standing double bicep curl again. On the bench, 12x164 as a warm-up, then 4 sets of 3-4 with 252, then 4x230 and a long set with rest pause and many different widths of grip on the 164 (10 at first then several 3's and 4's after a short rest and a change in grip). The curls were with 26,5's, 31's, 35's, 39,5's, 44's, 33's, 22's and 55's. Abs for the finish today as well. Tomorrow, it's legs or nothing.

Ironically enough, I'd like TO Torpedo Moscow, myself.

Yup.

If you feel like going into detail as to what you are doing differently now from before, then the rest of us could compare our way of doing them. This way we can all learn, if need be.