Back Together Again | Episode 3

Here we go again. What's up, man? What's up? I flew in the top experts, the best coaches in the world to help me kill this prep. Now it begins. All right, people, so episode 3, we are back with the dream team. So last time, me and Ben, we did like a kind of epic series together. It was way back in Ibiza and And funnily enough, Mariah was there, of course. So I hope you're getting all types of OG feels right now. Actually, Ben, you know what? You know what, play some little Ibiza footage to remind them who you are. Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah. Let's go! All right, so I hope you enjoyed that. Now it's back to reality, back to prep life, and we're gonna go hit the gym. Doing a push day today, um, so yeah, let's get into it. Fuck. So we're looking at some throwbacks, first time Ben and Mariah.

That is some OG stuff, man.

You look like a pimp in your pimp coat. All right, people, so we are at One London down in Fulham. So this is a gym that I go to quite a bit. I do have like 3 different memberships, and that Flex. I do have 3 different memberships just to kind of keep things interesting, and there's so many gyms in London, so it's great. I've actually found that really helpful on this prep. It breaks up the monotony, the routine. Anyways, we're about to hit a big push session. It is International Chest Monday, so let's get it.

Hey, we came to fight, we came to win. We lost before, but never again. Back on our grind, you know what it is. Yeah, yeah, this is our year. Knock us down once, we got up again. Put in the work so I know we going to win. This is for real, we never pretend. We got to win, win, win.

Alright, so this is our last set on incline press and we're gonna go to failure here and also throwing a drop set. Reason why you don't want to do this at the beginning of your set is because that's gonna weaken you for your workout. So what I recommend doing is your first couple sets, leave some reps in the tank, and then on your last sets you can push it and go to failure as that's not gonna affect your first set. So yeah, best set last set, last set best set.

This is why I'm here.

Yeah, it is. I brought him all the way to Amsterdam just to push me on this set of inclines. It's all right, let's go. Big set, big set.

Easy work. Let's go.

3 more. 2 more. 1 more, 1 more. You got it. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Push it. Go, go! Do more, do more! Few more weeks, huh? Hopefully I have a chest by then.

I haven't seen this guy in a while, but like how he looks already—

you still got how many weeks left? Oh man, 9 weeks. Yeah, easily going to make it. Yeah, yeah. That G4P OnlyFans coming soon.

You know, I actually flew out here, um, and I paid to train with this guy for some G4P in real life.

That's it.

He just pulled out a stringer and do some sets.

He wants to just get a close-up, actually. Yeah, I just want to get it actually. I just want to see if it's If it's actually—

it's even better in real life. I promise you guys. I promise.

This is day 22 coming into week 3, or just finished week 3 coming into week 4. And I'll of course be doing weekly physique updates. Post-workout with a pump, as that's what I'm gonna look like on stage. Gonna pump up beforehand and also have some tan on as well. So this is where we're currently at. Calories are at 2,400. Next week I'll probably be dropping them down to 2,200 depending on how they go. All right, people, so workout done. Now we're off to YouTube Space London. They invited us for a tour today to try to teach us how to be less shit at YouTube. YouTube. So it should be fun and interesting. So yeah, fun day today, let's go! All right, so we're just having a few car chats here, and recently Marianne took a week off social media, like a digital detox, went to Dubai. Question for you, something I'd be interested to hear is what was it like as someone who, like me and you, are constantly online, constantly on our phones? So what was it like taking a week off your phone?

The beginning was just really strange. You kind of, you like, the crazy thing is you even feel awkward just sometimes not being on your phone. Yeah, you know, when you're waiting in the grocery store, you're standing in the line.

Yeah, you're not allowed to look You're not on your phone, you're just looking around.

You feel kind of weird.

Well, that's completely normal. Yeah, it's back in the day, like, it should be normal.

Back in the day, you don't have phone, so you start realizing, you start looking around you as well. Everybody's on their phone, man. Yeah, you know, even people like in restaurants and like just everywhere, people are on their phones all the time. Yeah, I said it was refreshing, man. It's just like you start to freaking appreciate little things and yeah, just kind of live in the moment.

Like, yeah, and like, you'd be present to the moment. Exactly. And so when you finished it, like, did you feel good? And like, one thing as well.

If you're a content creator, what we do is very much not a 9 to 5, and we do this because we love it. And like, there's not necessarily structure and exact routine where you're doing, etc. Get into still this kind of like routine, maybe like, yeah, I have to upload, or this or that.

Yeah, Joey D did it.

It becomes kind of normal. So like, like taking that time off really made me think again and be creative and yeah, like excited to come back and to create something rather than, oh, I have to do it because like my followers need a new video.

Yeah, yeah, that's so true. We're about, uh, about 20, 30 minutes away from YouTube, so definitely won't be doing a digital detox here. But yeah, it's interesting. So if I disappear off social media for a week, don't be worried, I'm just chilling. You know things are serious when you got a name tag.

Welcome to the YouTube Space London.

Nice!

An area where creators can come, mingle, jam, think of ideas, use the free coffee, get a free drink.

Oh, do you like a drink? I'd actually love one. Anyone knows me, I'm so flat out on the Lil Zero. Oh, what is that? Bro, try it, it's so good. Literally, you can't get this in Ireland, and like, I'm on like competition prep right now for a show, so I'm smashing these. This video is not sponsored by Lil. But if you have a Lilz connection, you just hit us up with it. Oh, look at this! That's hilarious! Oh shit, he knows!

He knows!

That's it, man. Cheers, bro. He knows the lifestyle, man. Mike's got a lifestyle for life. Oh my God. Did you see that? He actually enjoyed his life. With 7 points overall. He was so happy. Oh my God. That's nuts. That's amazing. Our crew! Oh my God, unbelievable, the green screen. So right, what we can do is we can do a 2020 how to do out your own macros. We'll do the green screen here and just take it to the next level. I don't know why we're whispering. Yeah, we're not supposed to do that in YouTube space, but it's his first time here so he doesn't know. Bro, absolutely, yeah, no way. Awesome, thank you so much, really appreciate it, man. Thank you, sweet, unreal. Thanks, guys.

I have our bigger— second biggest studio of both, but just a little bit bigger. Nice. The lighting rig is fully customizable, so you can bring it down, make it more intimate, bring it up to get more of an open plan.

They're all made to do big calorie challenges.

5.1 Dolby Atmos surround sound, a projection screen.

Oh my God, oh my God, this is This is heaven. She died and gone to heaven. What the hell? Oh my God.

We're doing like large-scale livestreams. This is where the team will be.

Wow. How's that compared to your Instagram Live, Rob? Slightly better. Darren, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you guys.

Darren is our audio engineer, so anytime we're doing an event, he is the one making sure it all goes swimmingly.

You can hear even the audio, like the walls are definitely—

Jeez, disturbing. What do you think? That's dope stuff, man.

It's pretty sick, right?

That's cool. Yeah.

So for dinner today, we are doing a Nando's. There are very few things that I can eat out and track through prep, and Nando's is one of them. I already know what I'm gonna order. It's gonna be goddamn butterfly chicken and a mix mixed herb salad. Fun! All right, people, so the absolute state of my Nando's compared to Marianne's and Ben's. I am jealous of bread, I'm jealous of rice, but it'll be worth it. Please like the video for my lack of carbs right now. Anyways, um, I'm gonna enjoy this. Anyways, hey, salad, chicken breast, and a bit of broccoli. So, all right, let's dig in, then we're gonna make our way home, chill after the evening. All right, so Basically, recently I was sent out a mattress, okay, that's specifically for people who, you know, are athletes, bodybuilders, whatever, and it's called Mammoth Sports Mattress, okay. I'll put the link in the description box. Yeah, these mattresses, they're pricey, and we were like, okay, you know, we'll check them out. Honestly, I'm gonna film Ben's reaction, okay. This is the best mattress I've ever got on, okay. Just, just, okay, flop down, go in the middle, okay. And then lie back. No, no, back. Okay, yeah. Then jump back. Oh my God, it hits different. I, I can't go on to an air mattress. Yeah, yeah, it's like, it's so good it doesn't need a bed, straight on the floor. I know, it came over, it's insane. This is it. Yeah, yeah, jump back. Yeah, jump back, back, jump. Oh shit, I know. Whoa, bro, it's crazy.

That is crazy.

It's so good. Oh, it's so good. It's a super cake. We're all gonna get into the bed now together and just test it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why you're here. Ryan's just bulking too much. He breaks the freaking couch. Are you joking me?

You don't have fuel.

You fall down like, oh, I'm just doing shit like, yeah. Ryan's probably just like, fuck yeah! All right, boys and girls, finishing the vlog with a very, very epic tournament, a championship about to go down. There's going to be the battle for the inflatable mattress, okay? Someone is going on the couch, which is a great couch, by the way. I call it the nook, okay? Because you got like this couch pushed up against it.

With your height, it's a great couch.

Yeah, I like fit in perfectly. For you, maybe not. All right, lads, get in the arena. Wrestling matches. Yeah, sumo wrestling. There's a lot of space for activities. Oh wait, are we doing best of 3 or one settles it all? Best of 3. Rock, paper, scissors. Rock, paper, scissors. Rock, paper, scissors. Rock, paper, scissors. Go home, come on. He's struggling. He's— yeah, I don't see it. Usually it's really good when it's not on camera. We're gonna go 75 grams of oats. Oh my God, I got that bang on. It doesn't make a difference if you have a gram of oats extra or not, but like it makes a difference to my OCD mind. We're gonna do some vegan protein, um, peanut butter cereal milk discount code, link in the description box. But the reason I'm going for this is sometimes it can digest better with me, and also really, really filling, really thick. And so I'm gonna have that as my last meal, and that's gonna kind of stop cravings and really fill me up before I go to sleep, before we settle down. So let's give it a lot. Just for all the morons out there who 5 years later still can't make protein oats, I can already talk though, it's not like I'm a genius. Rob makes protein oats and thinks he's like a Harvard graduate. Protein and oats, mix them up, boiling water, and you're done. If I can do it, so can you. That was very motivational, Rob Lipsett.

And that is why he's such a big inspiration.

Chase your dreams, never give up, make your protein with oats. If you believe it, you can achieve it. Alright, I'm out of here. I'm gonna add some more water to these. So that's episode 3. I hope you enjoyed it. We're shooting episode 4 tomorrow. Just gonna start banging them out.

And the more—

Ben, goddammit. The closer we get to show day, obviously the more vlogs we're gonna do. So for example, like 7 days out, probably gonna do 7 vlogs and so on and so forth. So anyways, give the video a thumbs up. Keep it real. I'll see you in the next one.

Peace.