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Re: shoes After years of dedicated service, I threw out my previous under armour training shoes (can't remember the exact model, but apparently they were for gym training and certainly worked for me all this time) to replace them with a strore brand (Decathlon) training shoes my wife bought for my wrestling training in Italy. They are rather generic but so far, I have no complaints. Currently working through a bout with an apparent plantar fascitis (sp?) as in an irritating pain on my right heel. The shoes are at least good enough that it doesn't bother me during the training.

Time to slap one of these on here once again: https://youtu.be/qEaV__Lr2Vo?is=Lu2xO17f7QP-oCnI It's taken me a couple of months to properly get back into something worthwhile to even think of recording, but this week, things started to click again.

While I can't help with @Contentious C 's inquiries, I can tell that the price of whey protein over here is out of F'n control as well. 50 euros per kilogram when purchased in the small bags and the 3kg bag I usually buy to my locker at work has gone from 70 euros to 96 euros over the summer and I'm fixing to run out of the current bag early next week. I may need to look for some internet stores for special offers because that's some bullshit! Oh, and the 70e price tag meant that the price had already more than doubled in 7 years.

That's the little asshole in question for sure!

Have to put this here, since I'm so far behind, but I just watched AEW Grand Slam Mexico and while it was fun winning...I mean watching Hangman and Brodido winning the Trios titles seeing that little fucking thing running around ringside was fucked up. And you just knew that little fuck was getting stomped by the héels so much that I...mean Bandido had to stop them from doing it. Anyway, what the fuck was that thing called? Culito? Yeah, that's probably what they called it!

11 days straight with some kind of a workout on top of the biking I do every weekday. Now it's time to cram in some serious calories and let myself recover a little bit. Getting back into the shape needed in order to start the next bulking season.

Like that one guy... um, Elvis, was it?

Yeah, this is more like "your job description inside the company has changed" than a retirement! But hey, 61 isn't anywhere near a retirement age for regular folks, either, so by all means!

Inclined to agree, if the current MAGATaker wasn't a thing...

Giulia is awesome and it is sad how she has been handled since the end of her NXT run. Waller's promo was very nice and he has gotten into a terrific shape (and still looks like my little brother, who recently became a father, by the way) and all that will lead to is he being the first victim of Montana Cruz and probably nothing more. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend that Austin Theory has ever been as over as he was as Johnny Wrestling's son in The Way, however!

I'm slightly self-aware enough to see how this is me being very self-indulgent but since the month changed and there may yet be people who didn't see my wrestling training music video yet (and thanks very much to everyone who did) l will put it here, as well. It's kinda big deal for me to finally cross off something I never even thought possible off my 40-year bucket list! So, here: https://youtu.be/x28MIGoLgM0?is=toO3Ay8g9kZsv-7a

Thankfully, it wasn't cobble stone throughout, but certainly enough for me! Traffic everywhere in Italy was scary af, especially considering there were comparatively little walking lanes (and zero biking lanes that I saw) over there.

It was pretty unique. The mat was soft (as in padded) but had very little give, so the thud was very real. And as I said in the Fitness Thread, before the last two sessions, I practically warmed up and stretched the whole damn morning before the practice. So I was about as limber, flexible and warmed up as I was going to get. Therefore, I was able to escape without injuries, although I may have banged up my right heel in one (very loud bump that shook the ring so much that my water bottle fell from the apron to the floor). It's still sore, but since I didn't feel anything wrong with until several days later, so it may also could have come from running on cobble stones in Rome? Anyway, I was so hopped on adrenaline during the thing that while I definitely felt everything, I wasn't sore until the next morning. Thanks for watching and commenting. And I'll tell Hanger and King you said Hi...I mean what are you talking about?

Since we're here, @Technico Support this time around I was able to provide you with some of the bumps you wanted to see me try in the music video version of my wrestling training. How did you feel about them?

Not so many years removed from a toddler for real, since Netflix has apparently changed the age suggestion to WWE programming from 10+ to 7+, which is probably one of the reasons why Bron's bleeding eye was blurred in the cage match. In comparison to the delightful bloodbath between Ospreay and Swerve in the Owen Finals, that move is definitely not where I wish things were going over there.

I remember a quote from Apter mags from the mid 90's that implied that the New Generation era made '87 WWF look like Japan in comparison. We may very well be approaching a moment in time where the goddamned New Generation-era looks like Japan in comparison to what is going on today. Not quite yet, but it will be possible soon if shit don't improve!

Glad to hear I'm not the only one!

No. Ordinary, love.

I'm sure Naraku can be pretty easily moved back into contention after the title eventually changes hands. I could totally see Montana becoming the champ and feuding with Naraku and Rook among others, once D'Angelo is main roster bound (whenever that is). And yeah, making those videos was really cool. We had the 1 hour + training session and then used the remaining time in the end for filming some material for my videos. The last session was maybe 45 minutes of general training and 45 minutes of coming up with stuff for the final match. Trainer wanted to "protect my finish" so I "got so hyped up after hitting the choke slam that I forgot to cover him quickly and only got two". The guys were pretty impressed with my kip ups and handsprings, so I obviously wanted to work those in as much as I could, too!

Yeah, there was a mention of Meta-four when Lash and her partner were the Meta-Girls. I wondered what that was about, but now I know!

Tell me isn't so! I wish there was this thing called sarcasm, but alas...

I'm sure you don't mean broken NECK unicorn! Right? RIGHT?!??

Yeah, I have no clue where this is going 🙄

How does @DreamBroken feel about Mike Santana becoming Montana Cruz in NXT? (Also, what did you think of my wrestling video, since you were among those who checked it out?)

I've kept up with my home workout regimen during my summer vacation with spamming push ups, calf raises and resistance band stuff throughout the day most of the time. I have had maybe one day completely off during these four weeks. During the Italian trip before the wrestling lessons, I did a workout, a whole bunch of bodyweight squats, stretching and walked 5 kilometers to the school, so those particular days were very active. I bought two small(ish) containers of creatine and a bigger one of Essential Amino Acids during my stay and I'm going through them at an increased pace, trying to load up on creatine before work starts up again. Weight has gone up to 185 lbs and during the last 7 days I have started to look softer than I would like to, but I won't give a shit about that for a few days yet!