My Marbella Villa Update: I Made Some Mistakes...

What is going on everyone, welcome back to the channel. The renovation has now officially resumed. It's safe to say I'm addicted to improving the lips at this stage. Okay, so about a year ago we completely finished the actual house itself. It is literally a dream to live in. It's our dream home. We never want to sell it. We absolutely love it. It is my command center, my office, the kitchen, the pool, the living room. The bedrooms are even optimized. The beds are all amazing. I'm at my best when I'm living here, but we never touched the outdoor. So we had our budget, I went over that in a previous video, it was $90,000. We stuck to the budget, we made the dream home, but we actually never even touched the outdoors. As you can see, these are the original tiles from 1959. When you actually think about it, the outdoor is like bigger than the actual house, it's so much space. So this is going to be a game changer. If you want me to break down the cost of everything indoor, outdoor, furniture, drop a comment below. But right now, this is how the place is looking. So check this out. So we are doing a full wall here. We're going to try get rid of these random stones that the previous owner cemented onto the ground. If we can't get rid of them, we might put some decking over it. But either way, we want to be able to like sit and chill in that space, cuz a lot of sun goes into that area. We already got rid of like random tiles, piles of rocks, plants, because I'm an optimizer, capitalize on everything. I'm trying to make as much space as possible to increase the value of the property even more. The value of property has— it's hard to say it, but it's actually doubled. Like, we don't, we don't believe— like, it's crazy. So we want to just keep the value going and, uh, keep making it better. The front garden is absolutely huge, so we want to take advantage of that. But we are also doing up the back garden, which I'll show you now. There's like a lot of like plants and stuff here that we're getting rid of, you know. We were kind of like trying to tell ourselves they were nice and vintage, they're just kind of dirty. So back here is a huge space as well, and we're actually going to fill in around the tree. So again, it was just kind of like rubble and dirt and nothing. We're utilizing every single corner. That's actually a good way to put it, like we're streamlining the whole place. All the edges, the corners, we're making them really neat and tidy. As you can see here, the micro cement we did put in around the pool, that was a big mistake. So micro cement, amazing on the inside. The whole inside the villa is micro cement and it's perfect, but in tough weather conditions you want to go for some really strong long tiles. And as you can see, there was like a big difference between here and then the old tiles. So we're gonna make it all the same so it just looks really seamless. This will all be filled in, and the kind of cement, the, you know, platform will go all the way out to the wall. That wooden wall, which was completely temporary— bad idea. If you want to build something, just build it right. Or what's the saying go like? If you buy cheap, if you buy cheap, you buy twice. That's it. That thing is falling down, it's rotting. Uh, we got that done up last year just for like privacy. It was just like temporary. We always knew it'd be temporary. So we're putting a really nice stone wall and we'll be connecting the stone wall in the laundry room there. So it'll kind of, kind of begin— you see they've already started knocking into it. It'll begin there and go all the way to the right. And now last, last area. So as you can see here Like, again, this space is just absolutely massive. Tried to have a little grassy garden area here. Wasn't a good idea. Okay, the sun like comes down right there, so it just fries up the grass even if you water it. It's so hard to keep it alive. And so we're just paving over all that, putting in like a little wall, you know what I mean? We're tiling over all this. We're tiling over that, and we're putting in a little small wall at the bottom to neaten things up a little bit. And then we're also going to put in this area here, probably going to put a seating area, outdoor lounge here, maybe outdoor dining, and then a little mini home gym here. So that'll be done over time, but going to be absolutely epic. And then that's the garage over there. We're yet to touch that. Maybe that'll be the next project. But yeah, as you guys see, it is never ending. I'm actually loving it. I love like coming home from the gym every day, seeing the daily updates. And yeah, it's a dream home and we keep on building. Today anyways, we're going to head off to the gym now. It's going to be cool. Marbella vlog today. And weather's meant to be beautiful. All right, so we got a fresh delivery from the one and only Ghost. Now, big news, I'm not sure if I've spoken about this on YouTube, but Ghost have started doing EU shipping again, and it is amazing. So my main demographic is actually Ireland number one, and then, you know, Europe, UK, USA, rest of the world. But for a long time, my Irish fam and the EU fam have not been able to get Ghost, and I'm using it like every single video, so I'm that was very frustrating, but now the EU shipping is back. They've sorted their fulfillment center. I'm pretty sure it comes from Antwerp. It is super fast delivery, like I get my orders in literally 2 days. It's absolutely crazy and it's just like so refreshing and I'm just like, oh, it's been like, it's been so long. I think it's been over a year. So let me just quickly run through some bits that I picked up in my last order. Vegan chocolate cereal milk. I'm not a fan of vegan diet, but just this is good if you can't digest dairy well or just if you're kind of just sick of constantly consuming whey, the texture of this is absolutely delicious. It's really good for baking. So it's just nice to kind of change things up a little bit. Then we got some classic milk chocolate whey. Again, that's something that I would use a lot. This again is amazing for baking. And of course, for actually making like cocoa mix, it's delicious. You put it in boiling water, really good for cravings. And there's little bits of marshmallow in that as well. We got vegan pancake batter. Again, just really good for cooking. I've been using whey like constantly for the last couple of months. So simply just changing things up. Burn Black Sour Cherry. So this is the stim version. I pretty much just use this as pre-workout. You know, it's marketed as a fat burner. Of course, the fat burning is going to come down to your training and nutrition, but some pre-workouts that are like a bit heavy on your stomach, like there's a big scoop— these, like, they're just— it's really easy to digest and you feel really sharp. Also gets you sweating a lot as well. So I picked up one of them and yeah, I would just use that as pre-workout. I got the non-stim version, so all the same ingredients as this but just caffeine-free, so I can have it in the evenings. But there's non-stim version if that's what you're after. Lastly, we got some aminos. Again, I drink these around the clock, mainly for cravings. If your protein intake is all right, you should be good to go. Ghost Gamer. So this is a nootropic that I take before a podcast. Got a lot of stuff in it that is going to boost your brain's capabilities. We got one more amino, one more Gamer. So we have tons of Legend still left over, so I picked up a few bits that I wouldn't usually get and that I've run out of. Again, code Lipsett for 20% off the entire website. That's including clothes as well if you need to pick up some socks. But yeah, now available in the EU again, super fast delivery, no customs, just left at your doorstep. You don't have to sign for anything, super easy. So go check them out. I'm probably going to do some of the Ghost Burn for pre-workout today, so let's get it, let's head to the gym. We are here in Elements Gym Marbella and I have some something I've not told you about. I picked up a little chest injury not too long ago, about a month ago in Dubai. I hit an all-time PR in the process, 140 kg, 3 plates for 3 reps. Went up pretty easy, but afterwards I felt like this weird electric shock in my left back, and it just felt like really weak, really strange. So I think like it could have been a pec tear if I kept on going. I just felt like really weird for a few weeks afterwards. Feels pretty good now. I've just been going in doing like some light rep work every so often. Not doing like full big brutal chest sessions. It's like I'll just do like, you know, some incline or really high reps on dumbbells, usually like 30 to 40 reps. Hey, I can still go hard and everything else. We're gonna do a big pull day and yeah, it's going to be a good one. But that's a little update on my training. I'm sure it'll be 100% fully healed in like 2 weeks. Come on, Rob! Woo! Oh my God, if that doesn't make you want to do some bicep curls, I don't know what will. Perfect way to finish off session. Now we're going to go home, have a little bit of breakfast, chill out for a little bit, do some work, some editing, work on some game plan stuff. Summer, always a big time for it. And then we're going to go get ready for MC Beach. All right, so workout done, just finishing elements, and there was actually a package there for me because I used to get some packages shipped there when we were like moving in today, so some still turn up. But we have another Ghost delivery: bomber jacket, cream baseball hat, Ghost hoodie, and Ghost crewneck. So, so let's try on the bomber jacket. Okay, all right, so let's do a little fashion show. This is the bomber jacket in large. Guys, how fresh is that? So again, code Lipsett works for everything on the Ghost website. I'm probably never going to get to wear this because summer is just about to begin, but definitely have this for a long time as quality is awesome. But delighted with that. We're going to go home, eat. We're getting hangry. We're getting hangry. So we're going to go home, have like some eggs or something and check on how the building is going. Leanest breakfast known to man. We are doing the usual turkey and egg white breakfast. A little bit of hot sauce on this. Right now this meal is just pure protein. This is meal 1. It is about 11 AM. I always like, I'm not too strict on my like eating window. Always just focus on hitting daily totals and like I usually have my first meal after my session, so usually post-workout. Of course, if you want to optimize everything, it's a good time to have a meal. So I'm gonna have this now, put some hot sauce on it, eat it, and chill for a little bit. But I'll show you guys what we're up to soon. All right guys, so it is lunchtime now. It was a little bit windy, so we had to cancel our excursion for today. We're gonna go e-foiling, you know, the thing with the propeller on it, skim along. You kind of need like little to no waves to do hot, so we said, look, let's go out for lunch anyways because it's still really hot out. So we went to this place called Trocadero Estepona. I'll give you guys a little look around in a minute, but there's one on the Golden Mile. It's amazing, really nice, very known place, but we haven't been to this one and it's actually even nicer. So we're just having a nice lunch now. This is our starter, a little Caesar salad. And remember, it's like, this isn't all for me. Linda's gonna eat half. And then we just ordered a load of sushi, so I'll show you guys what it comes. And yeah, beautiful. Grateful to be alive. Views, the weather, the food, the company. Oh, we got the tropical, the trocadero, and the spicy tuna, tuna picante. So this just looks amazing. A lot of wasabi. I think your favorite one is the spicy tuna. Always, always. Insane, insane. Recommend. So this is Estepona, and if I didn't buy in Nueva Andalucía, kind of Puerto Banús area, Estepona would be my next pick. They're actually building a Pasha here, which is going to be insane. I'm sure we'll have a big night out there when it's built. But there's just a lot of new restaurants appearing and a lot of new clubs appearing in Estepona. So I say if you bought a property there like this year or last year, I think it would increase in value a lot over the next few years. So this is now a property channel. This is what I'm into. But speaking of property, let's go back and check on the renovation. So dinner time, we are just having a meat fest. Sounds kind of weird. Anyways, we're having a big barbecue, and excuse the non-aesthetic background. I was kind of like I was like, oh, do I even film this? Because like, there's like, it's a cement mixer in the back. Not the most aesthetic, but it is what it is. Check this out, right? Check the macros on these. Obviously there's more fat than just pure breast, but they're still quite lean. And then we've got 2 turkey breasts over on the side here, so I'll probably have a little bit of rice with that, some broccoli, veggies, and that is going to be dinner. But protein intake sorted right here. All right, so this is final meal of the day, dinner. Pretty big. There's also a few more drumsticks on the barbecue, but that just looks insane. And before anyone comes at me saying it's burnt, that is how I eat it. Charred. It's barbecue, so it tastes good. So we got brown rice, broccoli, some potatoes, peppers, courgette, 3 drumsticks, and a big turkey breast. So gonna enjoy this now, finish things up here. See you in the next one. Keep it real. I'm outta here. Peace.