WHAT WENT DOWN IN DUBAI Ft. Mike Thurston

What is going on everyone? Welcome to today's video. Now this week We are in Dubai. I'm with an awesome crew and we are creating content for a new fitness company called Recharge DXB that basically brings people out to Dubai, trains them, feeds them, and just shows them a good week in general. So that's exactly what we're doing. We're trialing it out and no better people to do it. So we got some amazing activities lined up. So I cannot wait to give you guys an awesome vlog. And if you're enjoying it, leave it a thumbs up. Sit back and relax.

Judging by everything here, it's all aesthetics, right?

Oh yeah.

So that's what I'll be assessing first. Obviously, I don't just treat the symptom. We'll have to look at the main source of the problem, and then from there we can take it further. The techniques I use are manual therapy, active release, cupping. Have you done cupping before?

Yeah, yeah, the red marks on your back. Yeah, I've never actually done it before. It might ruin my tan, but you know, I'm open to it.

What that does is it works the total opposite of deep tissue. So deep tissue, I'm compressing, moving, cupping, decompress, and I move it along. So basically I'm stretching your fascia. So the pump you're going to get from your workout is going to be fucking awesome.

Right, I'll go first then.

Yeah, baby!

Maybe I'll just do this the whole time.

Like, oh my God.

Okay, so—

You just set a personal record there, big guy. Nice. Monumental moment for Mike. That's how you get a big chest. Yeah, yeah, at the bar. Tops off. Right, we are today going to do some bicep curls. Every day is bicep day.

Good night.

We're filming. Yeah, films in 120 frames per second.

Really?

Yeah, yeah.

You put that on YouTube? 4K.

Yeah, I always vlog with This. I was swimming in Bali and I saw a snake just in the sand.

Yeah, ready to see what the desert has for us. Speed!

You can see how he throws his stuff.

We're trying to catch his breath.

Hear the wind? You feel me?

That sick bag was just about to be put to use. Like, oh my God, it's crazy. Yeah, day 1 out here in Dubai. We just got finished up with our desert safari and now we got dinner in an amazing location. Like, you want to see this now? Yeah, but yeah, it's so— in the middle of nowhere, so peaceful.

I can't hear anything.

Gonna enjoy every calorie. But yeah, so we did—

what did we do?

We did the kind of the jeeps, the SUVs. That was like a roller coaster. Then we went in the camels, which is really relaxing. And then now we've got dinner. So yeah, awesome day.

The falcon show as well.

Oh, the falcon show.

I can't forget about Marty the falcon. Yeah, yeah. Yo, what's going on everyone?

Welcome.

Mike, this is what he's just been so hands-on the whole trip.

Like, not my hands to myself.

Yeah, come on. Come on, man, seriously, we've got to be serious with the video. So today we're doing some strongman training, right? And have you done this before?

No, I never do any strongman training.

Yeah, it's all, it's all looks here, really.

Our max bench is 60 kilos.

Yes, combined. So anyways, you know I always say to try out new things, you know, be it MMA, strongman, whatever it is. So that's what we're all about. We're two open-minded guys. So the crew, we're doing this strongman training. So have a look over here. So we got logs with roath on them. Because you got to look like a badass pirate sometimes. Then we got these bad boys here, farmer walks, everything. Going to get coached today. It's going to be very intense and we're going to give it our best. All right, let's get into it.

Functional strength movements. All right, so day-to-day tasks. Most of you have seen the farmer's walk, the log, the stones. These are all tasks that we'll do day to day, but we're going to do it to an abnormal level. All right, these all look very happy to be here. For sure.

Yeah.

Has anyone done strongman before? I want you to separate off, boys and girls. Girls down the bottom, lads here. What I want to start, we just warm up. 5, jump it up. There we go, get through it.

Better, better, better. Good work.

I'm going to eat such a big dinner tonight. Like, I'm already pink invaded. Double rice.

All right, don't worry, we will get it washed off. Tacky is going to give you grip and the stones will move 10 times faster.

Okay, throw me in it.

Yeah.

Oh God, so strange. Yeah, this is like not bodybuilding anymore.

This is definitely something when you have like a lollipop or an ice cream and then bits of it dribbles on onto your hands. Yeah, and then it's stuck on your hands for the rest of the day until you wash it.

That's like Mike's just like life motivation right there. Yeah, and everything's sticky. What's it called?

Tacky.

Tacky gets everywhere.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, is that the salt?

Yeah.

So what we're going to do is going to give them the—

our UFC gym experience. Uh, this is our turf area. This is where we're going to take them through a little warm-up, uh, stretch, just to get their body feeling pretty good. After that, we're going to take them to the bag room. After that, we're going to follow them in into our BJJ room for grappling, and then we have the dummies over there set up. Have some fun, learn how to pick them up, how to slam them, how to ground and pound them. Just a full, full UFC experience. I got to show with you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Come on, roll out on top of me. Nice. Now watch you about to sit. So that's basically what I'm doing. And after that, I come around and I grab you off your back.

There we go.

Very nice.

There we go.

3 punches, 6, 8, and 10.

10!

8-6-4-2— go on! Ted no! Strong halfway half way... literally I am on top of somebody, sitting on their chest and there face down here so that can wail away. Whoosh whoo shh woopshhh wooohhhh whish.

Yeah, harder than you think.

So we really got put through our paces there and sweated everything out and left it all in the ring. But, uh, so yeah, it's a nice way to start the day. And we started in there at like Was it like half 10, 11? So now we're going to go to the beach now, chill out, and, uh, upgrade this tan. Two burgers.

Two!

I've got the sauce.

Yeah!

All right, so another beautiful day out here in Dubai. So it started off right, we got our skydive cancelled because too much winds and, you know, I've got too much gains, so they're like, this is a deadly combination. So we're on, uh, you know, a bit of a bummer with that, but then we came to the beach and we had such a blast. You know, I didn't think it would be so much fun going on the inflatable thing. You're never too old for aquapark, right? And it actually, like, you know, it's how you get the best tan is when you're active in the sun because you spend hours without noticing it. Also did some exfoliation too, so that really lifted our moods and it was a lot of fun. And now we're still going up in the air, right? It's not skydiving, but it's close. We're doing some paragliding, so we're going to see some amazing views of the whole city and it's going to be such a nice way to finish off a beautiful day.

So let's get to it!

It's like you're landing in the water anyway.

I mean, what you want to be afraid of is coming off when you—

My name is Karen and I'll be your hostess. So before we leave, I just have a few reminders. Ready?

Alright, let's go!

Good thing I looked around.

Alright people, so that is the end of the week with RechargeDXB. And I have to say, I'm going home with a smile on my face. And just the crew we had, the organizers, everything was all just spot on. And oftentimes when you go on holidays to a country, right, you know, well, it's just so typical to stay in your hotel, sit by the pool, you know, you're not active, you don't actually see any of the sights, and you don't experience a new place. And I was in Dubai a couple of months ago, and that's exactly what I did. So going with a company like Recharge, you know, honestly It just makes you so much more productive and it actually gives you some memories to go home with. And so if you are looking for something, a true Dubai experience, then I definitely hit it up. But all in all, it was an amazing week and I had an absolute blast.