My Pre Maldives Cutting Diet | 2,250 Calories

Good morning, YouTube! First vlog of 2023. Not the first video, but the first vlog, and we're starting it off with a sunrise swim. So we're gonna head down to Port Banús. I've done some nights on Port Banús and I'd be getting in at sunset, not going for a swim. We're having a sock party. So what we call it when we're drying our socks, we say we're having sock party. We're also packing up as we're going to the Maldives this weekend. I'll fill you in on all that later, but now we gotta jump in some freezing cold water. I've done a lot of sea swims in the summer, I've done them in the winter on a nice day, but I've never done them first thing in the morning when it's pretty much dark out and there's no sun. So this will definitely be the coldest swim I've ever done in Marbella. But y'all know I love cold water. I started taking cold showers once in Dublin, it was in about 2017. My heating broke and I just didn't bother fixing it for a month. And I called them up to try fix it, I was put on hold for like 40 minutes. I said, look, I'm just gonna leave it. That is when I fell in love with cold showers. I did 30 days of cold showers. I just kind of got used to it and I noticed that it gave me a lot more energy. It woke me up a little bit. Like, how can you not be woken up when you jump in a cold shower? And during that 30-day period when it was broken, Christian, the Alpha Elite crew were actually visiting and they came into my apartment and they're like, why is there no hot water? And I was like, I'm just built different. And I've also ordered an ice bath for the villa as well, so we'll make some cool videos around that in the coming weeks. But we should be there in about 2 minutes, so see you guys out on the beach. So we are down at the swim spot. Look how perfect that is. Sunrise is just coming up. It's very cold, not gonna lie. It's a bit windy as well, but One thing about vlogging is it makes me do stuff. It's like if I said to the camera, I've got to commit. It's going to be cold, it's going to be great, and then we're going to start today's video. So give it a thumbs up, subscribe, let's get into it. No, it's going to be so cold. Go, go, go! Let's get some coffee! So sea swim is done, and we got ourselves a nice little Starbucks afterwards. I went for a hot Skinny cappuccino. Usually I go for ice, but that was a pretty chilly swim, so I need to warm myself up. And Linda, what did you get? Iced latte, basic bitch latte. There we are, that looks phenomenal. Linda didn't go swimming, so she get the iced one. That just— that hit me in the soul. Unbelievable. Today's video is sponsored by HelloFresh, and I've been so excited to try them out. So you go onto their site, you choose the recipes you want to try out, and all your pre-measured ingredients arrive straight to your door. You choose your meals and you create your perfect box. 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I'm gonna go in, I've got a full workout scheduled, gonna do a lot of cardio and some abs as well. But first, it's time to get some energy into us. My usual pre-workout stack, which is Size, Pump, and then Legend. When I'm training in the evening, I just take these two because they're non-caffeinated, and then during my workout I have some hydrations. All right, Hulk juice, Hulk juice, whatever you want. Easy. Exciting times. It is a new gym in Marbella called Oxygen. Marbella, if you don't know, is the number one fitness destination in Europe at the moment. The selection of gyms, it's like never-ending. It's crazy. And they're all like proper, proper, like high-end bodybuilding gym. It's gym paradise. So this is why I bought a villa there. Honestly, it's one of the reasons. Like, people ask me, they're like, why'd you buy a villa in Marbella? And I'm like, because of gyms. And I start laughing. I'm like, no, seriously, I like to go to the gym. About to go in here now. Show you guys around when we get in there, but super sick spot. So this is the gym. It is 3 floors, but this is my favorite part. It's like outdoor on a balcony. Look at these views, crazy. It is huge as well. I'm not sure if you can see all the way down there, that's like the leg section. Then there's an inside in there. The place is absolutely huge. The owners are lovely as well, fond of the YouTube, fond of recording. They're all good with it, so that means a lot to me. Insane. So we're gonna hit a pull day now, so let's get into it. What's going on, guys? Welcome to today's pull day. We started off with some deadlifts, which, let's be honest, is an exercise I need to do more of and get better at. There's actually no other movement that gives me doms in my traps and back like the classic deadlift. I started off with 3 plates, worked up to 4 plates, and did this for 3 sets of 6, which I don't think was too bad. Like the video if you want to see me test out my one rep max on the deadlift. Could make for an interesting vid. Now, while you're enjoying the rest of this amazing footage, I'm gonna give you my 3 best back training tips because I want us all to be walking around Marbella with massive turtle shell backs this summer. Number 1 is use a variety of grips. As the back is made up of so many different small muscles, so varying your grip can target all these different muscle fibers and improve your overall muscular development. Examples of this include a wide grip, narrow grip, neutral grip. Play around with the different attachments in the gym, and when rowing vertically, don't be afraid to lean back a little bit and try out a few different angles— high to low, low to high, all that good stuff. Number 2 is keep things simple. If you do a heavy barbell movement like a rack pull or deadlift, a horizontal row like a chest supported row or cable row, and a vertical row like a lat pulldown for example, or a weighted pull-up, you're pretty much covered for all the main movements. Feel free to play around with some fun and different exercises, but these 3 movement patterns should be your bread and butter. Number 3, my last tip, is to choose movements that are easy to track and apply progressive overload on. Any gym bro would be able to tell you exactly his max deadlift or his 5-rep max, but few can remember exactly what they do on a lat pulldown. Another great exercise to apply progressive overload on, on your back day, is the weighted pull-up. To continue making progress, you need to increase the weight or reps over time. That is the name of the game. So use movements that you can monitor and track easily. I hope you enjoyed the workout. Be sure to like this video if you want to see me attempt my 1-rep max on deadlift, as it has been a while.

Artistic element of it. The problem is the ones who don't give us the artistic element, we just don't really work with anymore because it's just, you know, we get 100 million views of video now. And so, uh, yeah, if they don't give us that freedom, get people where they're immersed in the late at night. It is— what time is it?

I've put this together a little bit better than usual. Usually I just slap it on the plate. I've tried to make this somewhat presentable, but this is one of my favorite kind of low-carb meals. If I want to save some of my daily carb intake for another meal, going out or anything for dinner, this is the classic turkey sausages, egg whites and one whole egg, and then half an avocado in there as well. And we got these lovely new pink plates that I'm quite fond of as well. We're going to add in some zero sugar Heinz, quite hard to get here in Marbella, it's a rare one. Um, we're going to sit down and enjoy this now, but I honestly love this meal, okay? It's one of my favorite meals. I have it a lot. Alright, so next meal is overnight oats. And now usually we go for the standard hot protein oats with boiling water, but this is kind of nice as a dessert. It kind of, it's like gives you a cold and sweet hit. So it is about 80 grams of oats. You obviously put more in if you want more carbs. It is a scoop of Ghost Protein. I use chocolate chip cookie. Linda uses the milk chocolate. You can see the color there. Then for toppings, we went peanut butter, chia seeds, some almonds, and strawberries sprinkled on. And Linda did the same there as well. This is something that I think it's like 50 cents in total to make. Like, it's one of the cheapest meals you can do. It's very filling, high satiety. You can kind of change it if you're bulking, just put some honey on top, some more nut butter. If you're cutting, it's great as well. As I said, lots of fiber in it and very filling. So overnight oats I've been loving recently, these little oat bowls. And these little jars are really cool as well. So that's what we're about to have now. Alright guys, so I hope you enjoyed today's video. We're going to finish things up here. So a little update on the villa. We've been here maybe 2, 3 months now and it's pretty much perfect. A few things on the outside that we will fix closer to summer. Like, the pool's got a little leak in it. We gotta kind of clean the patio, and the pergola is getting installed. But we've kind of like booked and arranged it all, so we know the dates that the people are coming to fix all these things on. So probably like in May, we're gonna have a big party, get some of the gang here, and do like a really cool edit to finish it off 2 years later— year and a half. So as I was saying, there's still a lot to finished. This is one of the spare bedrooms. The bed is arriving next week, but right now it's like a storage packing room. We got Linda down here. Yes, I have my outfit and a lot of bikinis are coming with me. So we're going on our first adventure of the year, very excited. Somewhere that we haven't been in 4 years, and so we're starting the year off on a great note. Look at like my packing, like that's it compared to this. Bombsite over here, absolutely ridiculous. Alright guys, so next up we have what I call a powerhouse meal. This is one of those meals that I eat and I just feel amazing. So here we have a load of asparagus, carrots, and some pine nuts sprinkled in there as well. And then over here we have some pure fillet steak. So loads of protein, loads of nutrients. This is something that I eat on pretty much every day, or when I'm on a cut, getting my best shape. Steak and veggies, you can't go wrong. All right guys, so this is the last meal of the day. This is what it looks like, and I'm gonna leave you and love you guys there. So keep it real, and I will see you all in the Maldives.