Summer In Marbella Has Started // My Diet To Stay Lean

Rob Lipsett documents a beach photoshoot for Alphalete in Marbella, then walks through his push-day routine: cutting caffeine by 10-12 am to protect sleep, eating chicken with rice and a protein shake, and training. He also shows his nearly-finished villa and celebrates his podcast hitting 100,000 downloads.
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What's going on guys, welcome to today's video. I'm in a rush so let's get the day started. We gotta run off down to the beach to do a big old Alphalete shoot. I'm trying to open up packages. We got board shorts, perfect timing for the beach. Holy shit, oh my God, we got some tank tops, some AirTag stuff, some mesh shorts. Let's rock and roll, let's rock and roll, it's time be the gym version of Derek Zoolander. Let's go. All right, we're dressed, ready to go. We got our morning electrolytes. Let's run. All right guys, so we are starting the day off at one of our favorite restaurants. It's called Aua Playa. I don't know how to pronounce it. It's spelled A-U-A. I'm like, oh, A-U-A Playa. Either way, and we're with John, which is easily one of the best photographers and videographers in Marbella. Whenever I need something done, it's my go-to guy right here. So what is your setup there as well? Uh, today I bring my, actually my old gimbal, but it's the RS3 Pro. And then we have A7S III and then some photos here at the Fuji. Boom! That's an OG thing right there. So we're just having a little morning coffee, a little skinny cappuccino. This is the first outfit that we're shooting. And then the best part about it, right? You wake up, you go down, you get some coffee, and this is work. Check this. What the hell? Like, I don't know if there's anywhere else like this. You know, it's like Malibu but in Europe. It's absolutely crazy. So let's have a good day. All right guys, so shoot is done. Well, it's done on the beach anyways. Finished off by, of course, jumps into the sea, and I got the new Alphalete board shorts. They are bringing out a huge collection. This is my favorite pair. I shot them first, the light blue, the Aztec stripes there as well. And then I also had to rock the green just to make me feel more patriotic. We're finished up here at the beach. John absolutely smashed it. Now let's go lift some weights in the gym. By the way, the shoot location that we went to today, okay, it's actually a restaurant called Ela Playa. I think it was actually in one of my vlogs last summer. Basically, the beach is just like the perfect spot for shooting. You can kind of like, you know, camp out here, have a coffee, set up. They're super chill, and the food is of course amazing for lunch and dinner. We went like last summer at night, we got this like massive steak, this huge tomahawk steak, like, you know, one of those big things on a chopping board, all chopped up. One of the best steaks I've had in Marbella. So, aho playa, go check this place out. All right, round 2, we just got to Elements. By the sound of things, it's a little bit busy, but we're gonna go upstairs, see what we can do. Let's go! All right guys, so that is a wrap for today. We're both getting pretty hungry. I think the hunger kicked in, so We're gonna finish things up now. You will see that reel on Instagram. So that was vertical content, but next time we gotta shoot some YouTube. So, oh my God, so shoot done and I did not want to train. Like, I was starting to get really hungry, you know, tired, weak, and I was in the gym. So I was like, do I go home? Do I eat? You know, what do I do? Do I come back? I'm just like, Rob, you know, you're in the gym right now. Just take a little breather, have an energy drink, banana, protein bar. That's all you need, you know. It's not like I'm running a marathon. Just gonna do a little push day for an hour or so. This the first kind of bit of food today. Put the macros up on the screen. And, uh, so it is about— it's coming up to midday. And, uh, so as you saw, I had like 2 coffees this morning. Coffee doesn't really hit me very hard. I'll have like 1 energy drink. But for me, the most important thing— like, I can drink a lot of caffeine, but it's about cutting it off as early as possible. So usually 10, 11, 12 at the latest is when I have my last bit of caffeine. And this is the benefit of this, quite obvious: it doesn't mess with your sleep. The half-life of caffeine is about 12 hours, so you want to cut it off as early as possible. So this is it, this is pre-workout. Oh, and go. Like, I really do not have caffeine after I work out, you know? So I kind of like expend the caffeine during my workout. So this is going to get me through this session. These are great bars. Love a good banana. Let's go, baby! So that's 200 calories. This is going to be like just over 100 calories. So it's like just perfect for training. Yeah, I'm not hungry anymore. I'll go in, get it done. We still haven't blown out all our calories for the rest of the day. What I love to do, some of my favorite parts all day, is I'll just train and then I'll get home, I'll stick on a podcast, just have playing in the background, and I'll just cook up like just a beautiful meal that I've been looking forward to. And that's like, if I can do that every single day in the sun, then that's it. Like, I don't, I don't, I would take that. Like, it doesn't matter if I won like a billion euro in the lottery or whatever it is, I would still do that every single day. And I'm sure that you'll find, like, if you want to be happy in life, just as soon as you start appreciating the little small things and you stop thinking that you need all this, like all the stuff that you see online— yachts, jets, billions, all this— once you're just happy with your health and your routine, I'm telling you, you're good to go. By the way, this is the upstairs part of the gym, a little chill-out zone. I don't show it enough. Oh, tired, but we got to get it done. Barefoot through the next 2 reps and you're wrong. Exactly. Let's go. Come on. Press, press, press. Not bad, not Fine, I'll take it. All right guys, so just back from the gym. I am ravenous, right? This is my first proper meal today. I know we had the bar and banana, but I'm very hungry. So, so what we're cooking up, some guisantos muy tiernos. So we got 2 chicken breasts. I'm gonna have one now, one later. And then we got brown rice peas, and sweet corn as well to bulk things up a little bit, give it some more flavor. That actually looks quality. I'm super excited for that. So I put some hot sauce on this, stir it all up together. It's going to be a good time. All right. So first proper meal of the day, chicken, rice, sweet corn, gitanos muy tiernos, peas, and then put some sriracha sauce on that as well. So that looks absolutely bomb. Again, worst presentation ever. Just mix it all together and serve to myself like a dog. Gonna enjoy this now, then we got a little errand to run. Gonna bring you guys along with me. 70 grams of oats. One scoop of Ghost Whey. Current favorite flavor, marshmallow cereal milk. It has little bits of crunchy marshmallows in them. A little shake, mix them all in together. So looking like that, about 100 grams of water, 100 ml, whatever. Usually does the job. You don't want too runny, soupy oats. And that's it, boys and girls. That's your base. And then I'm going to add in 2 squares of dark chocolate for my sanity and a little tablespoon of Greek yogurt. Add some more protein to it, fills the bowl up a little bit more. It kind of adds a nice creamy texture to it as well. So— Alright guys, for this evening's sweet treat, we're going to do a little bit of crêpe action. Now, the thing about crêpes is they're actually just the exact same as pancakes, but you just spread them out all over pan and they become a fancy crepe. So just used good old Fuel Cakes mix and I just added a good bit more milk, like 200ml more, just to make it more flowy so it spreads out onto the pan. And I'm looking around for some toppings in the kitchen, there's not that many. Like, I would like maybe some banana in there or something. All I have is this absolutely ruthless stuff, it's like Mercadona Nutella with white chocolate. Per 100g, 550 calories. I guess I'll put on like 10, 20 grams, wrap it up. Either way, it's going to be delicious and I'm excited. I always need something sweet in the evening. Okay, it actually, it actually covers like nearly the whole crap, so that's fine. Like, we'll get like a hit of chocolatey goodness throughout the crap. All right, so there we go. I think this is the first time I've ever in 10 years cooked a crap on this channel. Yo, what's going on guys? So I just finished up a little run around the block there and I always come back, it's about like 9 PM, sunset, and I come back usually after like a walk or a run and I turn on all the outdoor lights and I just kind of trip balls for a while. Like I'm just like, like I just, I just can't believe it. Like, I'm like, I just think back the last couple of years and I'm just like, you know, this like house and life or whatever, it's not like about like, oh, the actual pile of bricks, or like, oh, like, look at it, look at this. It's just about like what I had to do to get to a place where like I'm proper happy. And I'm just like, yeah, just walking, just a man in his garden walking around. I'm just like, I can't believe it. Especially looks all like mythical with the lights on. There's a look at our new wall as well. Looks way cleaner. Definitely need some plants though. The last piece that needs to get all polished up around here is a little tent thing, little tent thing that the builders put up. But look, we're nearly done. We just got these lights put on this wall as well. I don't know if you can see that. Yeah, we've got some lights put on this wall as well. Decking going in, but all the tiles, 90% done. And then we're gonna do the big grand villa tour probably this weekend when it's all clean and looking good for all the guests coming to the Marbella event. So that's the main focus this week. And just really like prepare, make sure everything goes like really smoothly, and just make sure everyone's excited and has like the best time ever. But like, this is like the start of summer. The house is already like— I know we moved in like a year ago, but like now it's like the outdoors just made such a difference. And oh my God, I just, I just can't, can't believe it. So I don't know, I was just like kind of finishing my day with like just, just saying thanks to the universe, thanks to God, and just being grateful really. So So thank you and I'll see you guys in the next video. So thank you guys so much for the support over the last couple of years. And like, even today the podcast just hit 100,000 downloads. I'm like, I don't even know what downloads are. I'm like, are they views or are they downloads? I'm like, is people saving it to their phone? I don't know. But either way, you know, we're still going. We're still keeping on. And I'm just so grateful for everything. And I plan on doing this for the next 10 years at least. So let's finish this villa build strong. Let's have an amazing event. Life's good. Let's have an amazing summer as well.
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