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Rob Lipsett's day includes a surprise visit from Dutch friend Merijn, unboxing grooming products, a push-day gym session with pause-rep techniques, and pizza at Zizi's in Dundrum. He shares macro tips, bulking versus cutting advice, and everyday fashion picks throughout.
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What's up? Voice ain't sound too fresh. What's going on everyone, welcome to today's video. So a lot going on today, busy vlog. I am literally doing packages inside. Let me just show you what my office currently looks like. So office would be nice and clean apart from this drawers full of clothes and then order— today's orders that are going out, they are currently being sorted. And like I said, I also have a collab going on today, so I'm going to meet said person away. Don't tell you it is, give bit of a surprise. A few people guessed on his Instagram already. But first, I got a package from Regal Gentlemen. So it is hair product and then shampoo and conditioner. They like specialize in kind of like blokes grooming. So they sent me the clay. I'm gonna try this out right now, give it a review for you guys. Sick this here. You guys are also always asking like, you know, what hair products I use, like how do I do my hair and everything. So today it's going to be London grooming clay. No matter what it is, I always use clay. Yeah, I know this is already going to be good by the texture and the look of it. Never use too much, or that kind of just like makes you look like a bit of a like 12-year-old with the fringe up. And that's literally how long it takes me to do my hair. Everyone's always like, oh, Rob Lipsett, you're such a pretty boy, I bet you put so much effort into your look. That's literally how long it takes. So shout out to the dudes from Regal Gentlemen, Josh and Liam. They even sent me a nice personal note. I was talking to them even on WhatsApp, so they're super cool guys. Appreciate it. So now we're ready for the day. Let's head on out and meet today's, uh, special guest on the channel. It's a good hair day, it's a good hair day. All right, it's gonna be a good day. Link in the description box with discount code. Also, some of the comments on my last video, the yoga challenge, were too funny. Like, you guys are a bunch of creeps, but in in a nice way. Hey Rob, next time do the yoga challenge with no clothes on. Not suitable for YouTube, maybe another video streaming website, but, but not, not YouTube. It would probably go down better on YouTube. Oh yeah, man, see me. So nice to meet you guys. I feel like I've met you 100 times before. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Already know you. So strange, guys. Um, if you already guessed this, who it was gonna be, it was— am I saying this right? Marianne. Yeah, this is brilliant. No! Merijn in Dutch. I hope I'm getting that. Merijn is solid. Okay, perfect. So yeah, he's over in Ireland for like a couple of days, and so we're just gonna chill, work out, film some Q&As, hang out, catch up, and just be two basic lads in general. Exactly. Have you eaten or do you need to eat? No, not yet, man, no. Okay, right, we'll get something to eat and then we'll go hit the gym or something. All right, so Merijn just asked me have I ever been to Amsterdam. You know, that's where he's from, and I think I was about 16, could have been 15 at the time, but like me and my friends, we booked a couple of flights to Amsterdam for about like a long weekend. I think it was like 5 days. My parents would not have let me go to Amsterdam at that stage, so I just told them I was going camping for the weekend. And you know, we went there, we did the full Amsterdam experience, had a great time, stayed in some like terrible hostels in the Red Light District. Like the hostels were so bad, they were good. And like when I came back from Amsterdam, like arrived back in Dublin, you know, got the Aircoach home, walked in the door, like literally in bits. And my parents were just like, hey, so did you have a good time camping? And I was literally like, camping? The fuck you guys talking about? And they were like, you went camping for the weekend, right? And I was like, oh yeah, yeah, camping. So till this day they don't really know, but yeah, I've been to Amsterdam before. All right, so I'll give you a little walkthrough the meal here. So best tip when you're like eating out at a restaurant is just ask for the sauce on the side because sauce generally has a bad nutrition profile, so that's kind of what mess up your macros. But anyway, so we got some carbs here, we've got steamed jasmine rice, then we got a chicken cashew, so we've got the protein, got the essential fats in there, then we got the micronutrients going on over here. So we've got some steamed veggies and then the sauce on the side so you can like decide how much you want to flavor it. We're all really hungry, we're going to dig in. Let's go, bro! This is, this is quality. Yeah, this is so good. All right, so we got a really solid meal into us, kind of caught up over dinner or lunch, whatever that was, and now we're gonna hit— thank God it's a push day, right? Because I was like, yeah, I was like, I'm gonna get some cool shots, please be a push day. Today just happened to fall on a chest, shoulders, triceps, so we're going off to Royal James Sandiford. Yeah, uh, yeah, okay, Royal James Sandiford, let's go. All right, so we got here and it's so annoying, late in the day it gets dark in Ireland at like 4 PM, so then these like really artificial lights come on. I'm actually trying to get them changed, like, because me and the owner, Rob, we're friends. And but so we're not going to do like a fancy edit. The reason why is like the last video I did, there was like a big fancy gym edit in it as well. And it's like, I don't want every video to be like super over-edited. I still want that kind of like YouTube vlogging feel to it. So we're just gonna do like a raw workout footage here. Uh, two of us are just gonna get in a session. Like, I'm sure you're a bit tired from traveling as well. Yeah, no, we'll still get in a good session though. But, uh, yeah, edit tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, go, go, go! Push, push, push! Doing pause reps on an incline bench. Um, like when people are always asking me for like tips on your chest, tips on your bench, pause reps, it literally like cleans up your form, more chest activation. Just try it out. So literally just unrack, shoulder blades pinned back, down to the chest. One, one. So about a 1-second hold. And also, a lot of people are all like, oh, I bench this, this, this, and they literally bouncing the bar off their chest, breaking the ribs. And it's like, do a pause rep, and then like their bench press goes down considerably. So, uh, pause reps towards the men from the boys. Same with pause squats too. Pause work is— Good. Look, look at the amount of gains he's making. He literally has like stretch marks everywhere. This was back for my dirty bulk though. This was like literally like the first 3 years of my lifting. I just bulked like completely, like turbo bulk. I was like, I've had my turbo bulk times, to be honest. Like right now I'm trying to stay lean while bulking, but back in the day I didn't give a fuck. Yeah, I got way too fat. I got like some stretch marks there. Yeah, yeah. I honestly think straight— yeah, bow scars. I honestly think they look cool. Swear to God. I have like a kind of like quota when I'm bulking. As long as I have like a bit of chest definition, like, you know, a bit of arm vein and, you know, bicep peak and stuff, it's not going too bad. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. But, um, like, it's so annoying when you're cutting, you look so much bigger because you have all the cuts, all the vascularity, the peaks, the chest separation, everything. So it's like, am I losing muscle? Even though you're gaining muscle. So that's like a total mindfuck with bulking. And like, I had to get past that a long time go. So if you're currently experiencing that, if you're kind of like missing seeing all your muscle size, just keep going. It'll pay off eventually. Yeah, it'll pay off next time you cut down. Just you wait, 2017, I'm coming in strong. It's an investment. Investment. All right, so we've done our compound. So what was it? It was flat press, then incline, and shoulder press. And that's our main compounds. So we're going to go into isolation work. So it's going to be lateral raises, chest flies, and then triceps. That's pretty much it. And then when I'm like doing a shoulder emphasis push day, I'll literally just do that kind of backwards. So I'll start off with shoulder press, then incline, then flat. But anyways, this is one of the exercises that I see most people doing wrong. They go way too heavy. Like honestly, I think if you're going over like 10 kg, you're not doing it properly. Most people treat this, this exercise as a compound. Yeah, yeah, they literally do clean and snatch with flies. Like this is really all about kind of like, you know, keeping it strict in my opinion. I'm gonna start off with 5s and see how they feel, especially as they're an isolation movement. Your shoulders are going to be fatigued after doing compound work. Pretty often I do these pauses as well. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I hold at the top as well. So look at those traps though, they are growing, man. That's from shrug every day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn, this lighting though. Alright, so we're just about to head out for pizza, heading on a night out. You know, night out for me is going for pizza. It's the only type of night out I'm interested in. So I have time for a bit of fashion with Nick. So pretty much everything I always wear, it's an Alphalete lifestyle vest, discount code down below. I picked up these jeans in Forever 21. Ripped jeans are summer, so I have to get a pair that is not ripped. I know, kind of rare to see on me. Movement watch, and then this top as well that I was wearing earlier. I got that on Forever 21. I also really, really like this. So, all right, time to go off out into the night. Also went for another round of this stuff. What up, though? You ready for some pizza? Oh yeah, let's go! Taking all those Christmas vibes. All right, so we're just getting warmed up for the main event with— I don't know, this is like garlic bread and mozzarella, and then we got some prawns going on here. We're just like all— "Smell, bro, smell!" We're all just gonna dig into this now. We went for the vegan, paleo, gluten-free, calorie-free, dairy-free pizza. Um, organic as well. It's also organic. Just pure 100% organic. But no, on a serious note, uh, We went to Zizi's. This is— I always give everyone that comes to Ireland, like you, Joe, whoever, the full Lipsett experience. It's a workout in Raw Sandyford, chill for a little bit, record some videos, and then come eat a pizza in Zizi's in Dundrum. It's where we are, by the way. So that is the full Lipsett experience. Maybe I should do a competition and it's like, hang out with me for a day, come train in Raw, and then eat pizza afterwards. Who would like— comment down below if you'd like that. At the end of the day, who the hell would actually want to hang out with me? But anyways, yeah, yeah, that's, that's a question. All right, let's dig in. All right, so lovely evening, lovely man day. Uh, we, we honestly had a really nice day, but I'm gonna finish up today's video with the best quote I've ever heard, right? We were just talking about like, talk about everything. Yeah, literally, we're just talking about everything, and it was, "The world is a crazy place and we must make use of it." That's what we're here, man. That was from the man himself. And yeah, so I love that quote, it's so true. But I'm gonna wrap things up here. See you in the next one. Keep it real. Peace out.
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