Dueling Diary: CM Punk and Chris Jericho, Day 4

SOUND AND FURY, 11:40 a.m.
A treadmill hum and generic lobby music is infiltrated by muffled yet audible riffs of metal punk music. These sounds reverberate louder as WWE Champion CM Punk steps further into the hotel gym for a workout.

Hoodie and all, he gets rolling immediately on the elliptical while the sounds of This is Hell pound through his Beats headphones. It?s the morning before his match against Chris Jericho and Punk?s focus will not sway. The zipped up Straight Edge Superstar warms up and gets his heart rate moving for a more intensive training to follow.
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TIME TO BOUNCE, 12:12 p.m.
The gym starts to crowd up with some of CM Punk?s fellow Superstars by the time The Second City Savior has already worked up a sweat. The sweatshirt?s come off and the music has cycled into some Metallica ? specifically, ?For Whom the Bell Tolls,? shades of The Game?s WrestleMania entrance in Atlanta a year before.

Punk?s diet has varied over the past several months, including a three-month stint as a vegetarian, and his workout is equal in variety this morning. He moves quickly between chest presses and planks, incorporating a medicine ball workout in the set rotation. The WWE Champion takes the ball, holds it overhead and slam-bounces it to the floor with all his strength from a dozen to 16 times each. While serving as core training, Punk?s smile suggests he may also find a youth-like satisfaction at the ruckus of the 12-pound ball springing up to the ceiling to rattle the tiles. (WATCH)

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