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And you know that can lead to bad things...

Overall, 3 workouts this week, all of them upperbody. Yeah, there was bench, but I'd rather not talk about it. I was able to incorporate the one armed dumbell curl on the Scott bench into my workout for the first time in years. It's not exactly a preacher curl, nor a concentration curl, but this used to be my favorite moves ever. I used a 53, 57 and 61,5 lbs for this one, ten reps per set per arm. It's ugly, probably not all that safe, but it soothes my ego soooo good. I do have some sense though and started way more reasonable than a few years ago, easing back into it. Heavy hammer curls are also back and boy, did I miss those. The dumbell rack has really turned back the time into the mid- to late 2010's for me, and that could be fun. However, I'm starting to lose patience over the fact that the gym is still a work in progress and this week, there was not that much progress aside from what we were able to do by ourselves. You can really tell it's not any kind of priority for anyone else but the 3-4 people who consistently use it. I plan to rest a lot and eat everything in sight over the weekend and start next week with the trapbar due to skipping it this week.

Could happen. All those defences have to be squeezing Orange dry.

And All-Atlantic title is defended just (or almost) as frequently as the TNT-title but is seemingly easy to hold on to. Or at least OC makes it look, well for the lack of a better term, effortless. And as far as the actual Dynamite goes, holy hell what an episode, once again! Several different kinds of splendid matches, everyone interesting for different reasons. Next week seems like a bit of a cool down, but Rush vs Dragon? Alright. And we may just be in for a shocking tag title change, maybe.

Fortunately, the pre-order for Revolution just now showed up on FITE. I was worried that it wouldn't be available due to the DAZN deal. I have enough credits to get it for free, if I decide to use them on this one. Then again, maybe I'll save them for getting an early era PPV and pre-order this for the 4 extra credits. Decisions, decisions...

Thanks for this one! Good stuff, as usual! The photo in the beginning of the interview seems to be from when they were promoting a match between Buddy Rogers and Buddy Landell in another one of the "Battle of the Nature Boys", but sadly Rogers died before the match could actually take place, according to Landell

So yeah, yesterday I found out that all of my bench records and sets and reps have been off by some 6,6 lbs for years now, as the bar we have been using has been 17kg (37,5lbs) instead of 20kg (44 lbs). Ok, now we do have a 44 lb bar, but I'm thinking of quitting this bullshit altogether. Who the fuck sells weightlifting bars that weigh under 20 kg, unless very clearly specified?!? It never even crossed my mind! Fuck this shit!

I enjoy a good shitting from a great height every now and again! On Bill Watts? Maybe not.

Wow, a 30 day delay on Dynamite and Rampage, starting March 1st in Finland on FITE. Probably means that FITE won't be offering the AEW PPV's, either. 2023 is definitely not off to the greatest of starts for the 'Nado, here. At least there's still a good bunch of early AEW that I haven't seen, but this is still quite the punch in the dick, Tony! After all the money I threw at you last year, no less!

I see Emi forgot the sunscreen! Big mistake!

Hangman vs Wheeler is exactly the kind of sorta dream match I love to see. Page is a top guy but still young, not a real veteran and Wheeler has credibility from BCC. These two going all out was wonderful! The trios match was super entertaining. Quite the week for Jay Lethal. Jarrett was being very entertaining as well! C'mon, It's getting very hard to dispute! Hobbs already 3-0? Must have missed Darks and/or Elevations where two of those happened. Mudd reminded me of my nephew's dad, in the same way Bobby Fish does. He couldn't hang with the Powerhouse. I think someone needs to get a hold of that book and see what they need to avoid, if it's already written in there! Yeah, the main event was crazy! AEW really has something great in Hayter. When Statlander, Hirsch and Rosa are ready to return, the Women's roster will be insane.

I see Finland on that list. What does that mean for my FITE AEW+ subscription? I already paid for the year! Edit. Oh, and Action Andretti vs Iron Bear Bronson and the Dorada main event from Dark were off the hook! There was other good stuff, too!

Yeah, Thursday was resistance band city, indeed. Today, however, was one of the craziest trapbar workouts in quite a while. Starting with the platforms, as last week, but placing another lower platform between them so the elevation was just an inch or so. A couple of 5's with 196, then 5x290, 5x385, 4x480, 3x491 all without Versas. Then with Versas 1x575 and removing the middle platform, 3x619, 1x630, 3x575, 5x524 and 10x480 and then shrugs with 385, 290 and 196 after which was some ab work. This has been one hell of a week. I have eaten way more than usual and sleep has been surprisingly good for once. I shall keep eating huge amounts of stuff to hopefully recover enough to keep this going.

That's how I understood it from commentary, anyway.

Bittersweet episode, but boy did we ever get some amazing stuff here! Action Andretti (and later Darby) solidified their stance as great wrestlers by hitting poison ranas. Opening tag got a LOT of time, but that's ok, it was exciting. I don't want to see Buddy Matthews losing, but I'll take him losing if that means that I get to see him, period! Great showing by both men, but looks like Samoa Joe is coming to collect. Well, it was good while it lasted, Darby! You made it count. The Family therapy went way better than I expected, but if The Gunns use this as a launching pad into an AEW tag title reign, it has been quite the rise into the contention for them. They beat FTR and talked their way into a title match from there. Quite a feat, that is, IF they actually win the titles. Toni Storm's heel make-up certainly worked. Looked very heelish. With all the talk about Toni's arsenal, all I've got to say about that is, that this is a very literal case of "working with what she's got". Huge win for Ruby, but I was yelling "don't fall for the hurt nose thing, it's a trap!" And it was. C'mon, Ruby. Ok, so Brian Cage couldn't do that much of the exciting flying big man stuff here, so it wasn't terribly exciting, but hey, good enough. He lost, so he tried to at least get the bounty. Thatcher should be great. They are really going balls out here, I couldn't have realistically picked more interesting (for me) opponents for Bryan, if I tried. Main event was emotional and great, with the bittersweet ending of Mark finally getting a win over Lethal with Jay's finisher (a beautiful one at that). The tribute video was heartbreaking, but really nice. Next week and Rampage should both be awesome! Edit: Fogot to say that JungleHook rules and Ethan and Hardy got some good character work in there. Also, DEAN is being quite the trooper providing that much text despite being in the hospital! Let's see others try that! Although, hopefully nobody needs to go to a local medical facility just in order to accomplish that!

Couple of weeks ago I realized that I have been slightly overestemating the weight of the squat-machine's bar. I figured it would be around 20 kg, but It's only sligthly over 10 kg. So, I was bummed out about this, so I today I just added more weight to off set that and didn't count the resistance bands at all. So I did 8 reps with 401 lbs and 7 with 423 lbs. Yesterday, I did bench, but the new bench felt quite different, so I didn't go too heavy. But I did get 5x267 (and 5's with 234, 258), but then I decided to drop down to 139 and see how many sets it would take to reach 100 reps. Well, it took 7. I got 32 on the first and then around 10-14 with each following set, with the last one being 13, ending up with 101 reps. Monday was arm massacre, both tricep and bicep plus forearms, I'll save the trapbar for Friday, but I need to figure out what could I possibly do, what I haven't already exhausted this week? I guess it's resistance band-city!

Friday I did an intense arm workout with an EZ Bar for behind the neck OHP 3 sets with 106 (20, 15, 15) then 3 more with 85 (20, 20, 12) and between each of these sets I did of pushdowns with a resistance bands a set of standing double bicep curls with the dumbells starting from a pair of 17,5's and finishing with 48,5's getting some 10-12 reps each. Then moving on to heavy hammer curls as promised starting with the pair of 88's and got 8 ugly partial reps each hand. Then the same with 84's, 79's, 75's getting a little bit better reps as the weight decreased. I'm not where I once was with these, but I'll get there or at least close to it, in due time. Weekend has been heavy eating and resting, so hopefully next week's workouts will be good.

Thanks, Tony! Brian Cage with two Willie Mack matches and both were exciting. JungleHook returns for a second time. If only Hook's entrance music wasn't so utterly lame! Anyway, the match with Ethan Page was ok. I said that Buddy Matthews vs Bryan Danielson wouldn't make any sense right now, but Buddy vs Darby actually does (as explained by Darby), so I will so gladly take that as a replacement! So, there's a sort of 3-way Women's feud developing with these six (well, seven, eight if you count Rebel) women! Hey, Shida could team with Rebel and make this a 4-way feud! Andretti with another win. Promo-wise, his character seems like a bit of a throwback to the Attiude Era. I'm not sure where they are going with that? Next week's show being already completely booked as far as matches go is good promoting.

Hey, they're not keeping him out of the ring (and not losing) for nothing. I'm sure they have plans for him, once they feel he's had enough training. Not really sure who is training with him right now, unless it's the guys he hangs around with on TV? Matt Jackson and Jamie Hayter should be teaching him about suplexing multiple people at once, though!

I've only heard them mentioned on Dynamite. Maybe it was when one of the wrestlers was featured on their episode, or something? But through AEW, I am familiar with the name.

Bound to happen one of these days! Not before 50-0, though!

It might be, unfortunately. Yup, comes up empty! Well, let's try this: Hey, Tony! Europe wants to watch ROH, too! Can you fix this?

Yeah, it's not my first choice, either, the TV Browser. The problem was that I couldn't find an App that I could download on my phone or tablet from in either Play or Galaxy Store. Getting that would be the first option!

I guess this goes in here, but: I've had this idea for a good while now, but I was thinking that if you still had like a really BIG tag team, physically, they should have their introduction go: "at a total combined weight of a proverbial metric shit-ton" (you could bleeb the s*it if necessary). Then, they could feud with another huge team, who could be heels and get heat by claiming to weigh "a literal shit-ton" which fans would obviously reject, because that's not possible. Anyway, that's all.

When Tazz showed up at Royal Rumble 2000 as a surprise opponent for Angle, I remember there being some talk that the opponent could be Shamrock instead. Now, I have no idea if it was based on anything other than wishful thinking, but I remember it being there.