30,000 Calorie Challenge | Bodybuilders VS Food | Epic Cheat Day

In this vlog, Rob Lipsett teams up with fellow fitness YouTuber Matt Does Fitness for an extreme "30,000 calorie challenge" in Dublin. The video opens with Rob explaining his appetite, love of the gym, and the idea of a massive cheat day. They outline the challenge’s self‑imposed rules – roughly three 5,000‑calorie meals – and set out to consume as many calories as possible while still fitting in a workout. The duo embarks on a food tour, starting at Pogue Dublin for oversized pancakes, then ordering a calorie‑dense "bodybuilder smoothie" loaded with white chocolate, Snickers, Oreo, Nutella, and coco cream. They head to a petrol station for full‑calorie Coke and a kilo of Haribo jelly beans, boasting about swallowing 500 calories per minute. After a brief gym session featuring Rob’s signature pre‑workout and pump supplement, they storm a McDonald’s in Carrickmines, placing an enormous order that includes multiple Big Macs, twisty fries, specialty burgers, milkshakes, apple pies, and a slew of sauces. The pair then visit a 24‑hour Tesco and later a Pizza Hut, adding more pizza and ice‑cream to the tally. Throughout, they banter, joke about the absurdity of the order, and encourage viewers to like the video. They also share brief nutritional commentary—suggesting more frequent, smaller meals might be sustainable, using distraction (watching a documentary) to cope with the food load, and noting the difficulty of tracking macros for certain items. The vlog ends with them reflecting on the challenge, estimating they’ve surpassed 30,000 calories, and signing off with a call‑to‑action for likes and subscriptions.
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Alright people, so look, as you know, I've got a very big appetite and I also like to go to gym and do fitness stuff. So I was like, you know, who in Dublin can I like hang out with that's kind of like into the same things as me? So I got the one and only, the man himself, Matt Does Fitness. Aww, what an affectionate hug. We're OGs in the game, so no intro there. I'd say let's go. What was the first body power? 4 or 5 years ago, roughly that. And ever since then we've just been bonding over food and lifting. So today we're gonna do— like, we didn't even want to have a cheat day, but the people wanted some cheat day. So now, now we do want to have the cheat day. We actually just realized, we're like, yeah, we need to do this. So either way, like the video, give it a thumbs up, sit down, relax. We're gonna eat some beautiful food today. We're gonna go on a food tour of Dublin. I'm gonna lift some weights too. Get hungry! We were just saying that Neither of us are really too hungry in the morning, so we're really gonna go the other way.
Like, I'm not— I'm not only am I not hungry, I actually feel a bit sick in the morning. Like, it's not ideal as far as eating loads of food goes, right?
So we have arrived where I bring all my YouTube dates, and that is Pogue Dublin, because the pancakes are off the chain. It's a good menu too. Now I'm feeling a 30,000 calorie challenge today, right? Just, it's simple when you think about this, okay? 3 5,000 calorie meals, 5,000 each, true meals.
I'm leaning towards more frequent meals and less quantity. I think that's more sustainable, personally. We'll see, we'll see how it unfolds. I'm happy to wing it and see what happens.
More sustainable.
I think breakfast is gonna be the issue. I think 5,000 calories for breakfast could be an issue, but we'll see.
Okay, so look, Bill Johnford pancakes, but you get the skinny bitch because that's how you're behaving today.
So can I just have like just the avocado and bacon?
Do you want rocket?
Yeah, why not? Stick it in there. Rocket is very high in calories, isn't it? Like one of the most calorific things. Nutella, we go Snickers, we go marshmallows.
Uh, we're gonna go for the bodybuilder smoothie. White chocolate, yep. Snickers, yep. Oreo, yep. Keep going, keep going. Nutella, yeah.
I ticked like every single one.
Let's go premium, let's go premium. Gonna go coco cream then. Look at that freaking spread. Okay, and look, get in the angles. That is dedication to the game.
Work. Okay, drinking game on.
All done. Time leaving is— and like, Matt was in the bathroom, I went to the bathroom, yeah, yeah, exactly, brush your teeth, you know, chill out for a little bit. And so now it is 11:55, so that's pretty good going.
Yeah, that was quite quick.
Yeah, that was quick enough, and that was like taking our time. This is not a speed challenge.
We're gonna enjoy— I want to enjoy it.
I want to enjoy our day. Yeah, yeah, that's it. We want to enjoy our day in the best city in the world. We're pretty good at estimating, and we're thinking that is only 6,650 total so far. That's not good enough.
That's a hit. That's—
oh yeah, it's a little dead.
I was riding a high, and now I'm feeling—
you're feeling too good after that. We were like, that was easy, and we added up, and we're like, I forgot how difficult these challenges are. That means, uh, off to McDonald's. So change of plans, we're gonna do post-workout McDonald's, right? Because we gotta train. I love the tactics that go into this. It's so much fun.
We're not playing around.
Yeah, we literally had an intense conversation in the car just there. We're like, How the hell are we gonna do this? So what we're gonna do is, right, we're gonna go into the petrol station now, right? And we're gonna get some full calorie Coke, 'cause that is allowed. It's only for the 10K challenge that you're not allowed liquid drinks, okay? I think after that it's like— We're making the rules. Yeah, yeah, we're making our own rules. Yeah, this is a new food challenge. Grab your buddy and do the 30,000 calorie challenge. It's a new thing. So we're gonna get full calorie Coke and loads of Haribo, kilo Haribo. We're actually gonna make some fucking gains today, man.
Yeah, it's gonna be enormous, mate.
So, can them off there, can them off. Liquid calories, man.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Woman in there, yeah, I think she thought— I think she thinks you're some kind of pervert.
All right, so the reason we're going for these is you can literally just swallow them like a duck. Like, you can just swallow them back. How much calories in the bottle of Coca-Cola?
Let's be educational.
210. We get a dentist sponsorship after this, so that'd be really nice. Let's smash one bag of jellies.
Let me try a swallow and see how it goes.
Yeah, if they just listen to the audio, it sounds really bad.
Quite big.
I, I'm really good at like swallowing. Okay, right, that's how I did my 10K in the one hour. At the end I was like, a few minutes ago. Yeah, it works. Boom! That was our 500 calories in a minute.
Yeah, that's more than the Coca-Cola.
And with the Coca-Cola, we got— we're back on top!
The video's changed, it's gonna be 30,000 calories of cola bottles and Coca-Cola sponsorship. Hit us up!
All right, gym time.
I'm actually feeling—
I'm feeling good now. Like, that freaking pump, man, it looks like a tumor. What the hell? So gym time. So we're gonna do some C. Guzman. Signature pre-workout. Rob Lipsett Signature Series coming soon, stay tuned. So we're gonna do one scoop of this, and then we are also gonna do a scoop of Pump as well. During our workout, we're gonna be eating all these and drinking this, right? It's non-stop. Whatever it takes, goddamn it.
If you, if you feel like your training is going too well, a good way to ruin it is just to eat loads of jelly snakes mid-session. Like, it's absolutely disgusting.
Yeah, that's a surefire way to feel and train like shit. It's time for some McDonald's!
2 Big Macs, 4 large fries, an apple pie, 2 large Cokes. We can do 2 each, right? Give me some requests. What stuff do you like?
Uh, twisty fries. When I put twisty fries in my 20K challenge, everyone lost their shit. Honestly, everyone loved the twisty fries from McDonald's. You're in Ireland now, man.
Where? They're not there, mate.
They're on the secret menu. Just, I'm telling you, twisty fries. Have you never tried them? No. What, mate?
I didn't know they existed.
I mean, they're so high in calories as well.
No, no, I swear to God, you're gonna be like, come and look at these twisty fries in my basement, and then you're gonna lock the door. Feed me some more jelly snakes.
I'm telling you, right, look, twisty fries, they are— they're next level. They're like crispy, crispy.
Okay, you might— I reckon that must be like the Irish website.
It is, yeah. I don't know why Irish people love twisty fries, but they've been on the menu for like 10 years. All right, fill them in. Tell them what's about to go down.
What's about to go down is a shitload of McDonald's, like probably the biggest McDonald's order McDonald's have ever received.
We're gonna set a personal record here at McDonald's Carrickmines. They know me here because this is where I go for all my calorie challenges.
Uh, I want to—
maybe I think they're excited. Probably like, who the fuck is this guy?
Yeah, yeah, I want to see it all laid out. I want to see it. There's gonna be a lot of food, a large quantity of food in one go. I'm excited. Okay, right, are you ready?
For the order because you're gonna have to pass on to me, then I'm gonna have to say to these. Or do you want to lean across and say it?
Yeah, but I need to get my little— I need to nail my little transit. Okay, okay. But the first thing, yeah, the specialty meals. You can order 2 large specialty meals, the burgers, right? Okay, okay.
You order that, nervous now.
Order that and I'll come in when I've got my transit going. Okay, where are we here?
Transition. No, he doesn't mean he tries to transition.
This channel is all about sexual innuendos. Yeah, take it seriously, Rob, come on. I don't want to talk about it.
What do you want to feed me? Hey there, so we would like to get, um, so the specialty burgers, uh, one Chicken Legend mayo, one Chicken Legend barbecue sauce, one Chicken Legend hot and spicy, and can we make them all a large meal?
What has just happened? What did you just order? Tell me again what you just ordered.
The chicken special.
You ordered 2, right?
3.
Okay, that's fine. All meals? Yeah, all meals.
Okay, 2 large Big Mac meals.
Get another one there. I need 2 Big Macs.
That's mine.
Oh, do you think the guy's gone? The guy's gone.
Oh no, man's just left us, man. Just like— and then can we get 2 twisty fries?
Large chocolate milkshake, marshmallow milkshake.
A large chocolate milkshake and a large vanilla milkshake.
Uh, up to apply.
2 apple pies. Yeah. What? Why is there a fillet of fish?
Why have you put it?
No, why did he—
oh, it's true.
No, no fillet of fish. What says on the screen? Fillet of fish.
A large barbecue meal, large hot spicy meal, 2 large Big Mac meals, only cheese and ketchup, 2 apple pies, 3 twisty fries, large vanilla chocolate shake, and large hot Yeah, and shitloads of condiments.
Oh, and then can we get 5 mayo dips, 5 barbecue dips, and then 5 sweet chili dips? Barbecue, mayo, sweet chili. Anything else? No, that's great. Thanks so much, really appreciate it. Sorry for the complicated order. We're such idiots.
Fillet-o-fish.
No, I did see fillet-o-fish on that screen. No, it came up and I was like—
What? 12 fillets?
Imagine we come up and they just give us all fillet of fish. Just a load of fillet of fish.
10,000 calories of fillet of fish.
No, no, no, it's cool. You got the jellies.
How much is this going to cost? £400.
Give me back.
I'll buy the test.
Yeah, you get the test. Hey, guys. What's up?
Do you want me to read that or are you happy enough with it?
Maybe we should check real quick.
Just do it again.
Yeah, yeah, that'd be great.
So I have a large chocolate shake, yeah, vanilla shake, 5 large Cokes, uh, Mayo Legend, Barbecue Legend, the Hot and Spicy Legend, 2 Big Macs with only cheese and ketchup, 2 apple pies, 5 large fries, 5 Mayos, 5 Barbecues, 5 sweet and sour, and 3 French fries.
That's sick. But all the fries, that's all their meals, aren't they? The fries and— yeah, yeah, sick. Yeah, nailed it. Top work.
Yeah, fair play to you.
Ask for a free fillet of fish.
Thank you.
Thank you. Cheers. Appreciate it. They deserve an award, McDonald's car mines. Okay, guys, it was a joke for sure. Yeah, he told us a joke. Yeah, he told we were gonna drive off, but it's like, nope, here we are, paying collect. They're the dangerous ones. Oh yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, yeah, okay, let's park in the bay. Okay, your man's bringing it out now. Catch up in a bit. We got all the food.
I mean, this is the most McDonald's I've ever seen in a Concentrated area.
They broke out like the special bag for this. It's like, this is like this special XL bag. Oh man, the chocolate milkshake looks so good.
Okay, home time. Oh my God, we got 3:55. That's good.
Oh, unreal. So okay, that's perfect then.
Yeah, that, that probably makes up for the deficit already. Yeah, close enough.
Oh my God. Oh my God, the amount of fries in there. Starting time, 6:25. Okay, so it is now nighttime. Uh, we have just spent the last couple of hours— what have we done? Edited, post on Instagram, we digest our food, we have contemplated life. For a little bit as well. So we're gonna head to Tesco 24 Hours probably, and just no game plan. We— pizza's probably gonna be involved. Yeah, pizza's gonna be involved. And no more jellies.
But I think like a— like, I think a mistake we made with the McDonald's is it was too much, too much fries.
Like, flicking from savory to sweet opens up a whole new, you know, whole new world. Okay, right, Tesco's, let's go. Okay, so here's the update. We're on the final stretch. We're in Tesco's 24 Hours We may as well be eating that like with our burger. What?
There's no calories.
I'd rather eat that.
How is that a thing?
I would rather eat that than jelly snakes again right now.
Cattism. There's no, there's no numbers in this at all. If you're a cat trying to track your macros, mate, you're screwed because they don't give you this. All they tell you is that it's 4% beef jelly. What friggin' use is that?
Keep you updated on what we go for. We're thinking something pizza and a lot of ice cream. We haven't thought any further than that. We shall see how it goes. Live in the moment.
You can do a mouthful and it's like 500 calories.
They're always there for me, Lucky Charms. Would like just a large margherita pizza, please. Large margherita pizza, no problem.
Yep.
Would you like anything else? Uh, yeah, some serviettes and maybe some dip with that as well. Yeah, okay, no problem. That'll be $14.95 and that will take around 10 minutes. Okay, perfect. Thank you very much. Thank you. Have a nice evening. See you soon.
He actually said, he actually said, "Soviets." Oh, we're nearly done!
Right, let's do this! Pizza Hut! Okay, so this is it, this is the end bit. How you feeling? Emotional, very emotional.
Absolutely starving hungry as well.
Like the video, please! Just please like it, it takes 2 seconds and we are entertaining you! For a whole evening, just please. All right, okay, pizza, let's go. Hello.
Okay, that smells good, you know.
Yeah, man, that's giving me life. Okay, let's go home, finish up this bro day and, um, this documentary. Like, how much of a bro date is that? Like, eating so much calories watching a powerlifting documentary.
We weren't filming this, this would be suspicious.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, look at that food.
Yes! What even is it? Tin? Nah, like, why did I get this?
It would look better if we get it out.
How do you get it out?
Get like a little plate, I think, and put it on a plate. Oh no, I can't.
Okay.
Oh yes.
1,000, 2,000, 3, 4, 5, 5, 8, 6, 4, 7, 9, 2. Then you're a lunatic and you've brought an unnecessary What was this, like 16, 15? So that's like 10.7. Okay, 10.7K.
Right, boom, let's go!
So first things first, Rob is getting— was it called again?
Uh, was it the strength?
Something—
Born Strong.
Born Strong. Eddie Hall documentary, been watching it. Yeah, watch the first half of it. We're now gonna finish it.
It's like eating motivation because he eats so much.
That's a good food challenge tip, right, is to distract yourself. Like when you, when you're thinking about the food, like the second I start thinking about it It stresses me out. So if you just get distracted, watch something, it's way better. All of this together is like 10.7, did we say? Yeah, I think it's 10.7 cows, 10.7K cows. If we eat all of this, we are over the 30K mark. We are officially the greatest people in the world. Yeah, facts.
Okay, we just do this, right, man? Stand arch. Yeah. Okay, high five, high five.
Okay, I'll catch up with you in a sec.
We're done. That's over 30K. We ate more than we needed to on the cheesecake. That's actually filled. We're ending the video here. That's my yearly calorie challenge done. That's the biannual calorie challenge done. I think I've actually done 3 this year, so that's the triannual. I hope everyone liked the video. Smash the thumbs up button. All right, seriously, if you've made this far and we've provided you some entertainment and the least you can do is take 2 seconds to smash that thumbs up button. Thank you so much. Make sure you subscribe to the channel. I'll see you in the next one. Keep it real.
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