In this January 2016 vlog, Rob Lipsett returns home after the holidays and shares a day in his life focused on fitness, nutrition, and upcoming projects. He introduces the newly opened Raw Gym, showcases his morning smoothie and a quick burrito‑bowl meal prep, and walks through a brief grocery haul. Rob discusses the influx of beginner questions he receives in January, reflecting on his own early‑career misconceptions about protein and recovery. He then announces a two‑week stay at a YouTube creator house in Los Angeles for the Fit Expo, highlighting planned collaborations with several UK and US fitness YouTubers and training sessions at Barbell Brigade. The vlog ends with a call for viewer suggestions on collaboration ideas and a promise of more content before his LA trip.
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What is going on everyone? So I'm back, I'm back home. It's the first week of 2016. It's my first recording of 2016 and I'm just feeling, I'm feeling good. You know, I had a lovely holiday there, I entered 2016 well and you know, comparing this time to this time last year, I'm just in a good position to just make this a good year. You know, I'm excited. I hope you're feeling the positivity too. So the plan for today is there's a new Raw Gym open. You all know the gym I train in, and they opened up a new one, which is great. I love to see businesses doing well. Raw Gym, they are very, you know, they're good pals of mine. There's a ton of YouTubers who they get like kicked out of their gym for filming. Raw are totally cool with it. So, you know, I'm pals with everyone there, so that's great. So I'm gonna get this vlog underway, show you what I'm getting up to today. Full day of training, eating, whatever, tell you what's going on. And, uh, so let's do it. This morning's smoothie: frozen spinach, frozen banana— getting that potassium in— protein milk, Impact Whey Isolate, and some organic cacao powder. Love this stuff. Also can't forget the D-Ball. That's crazy. All right, here we go. Alright, so just got home, workout done. Sarah actually surprised me, showed up at the gym halfway. Super smashed it, had a really good one. And on my way home, I realized there was shit-all food in the gaff, so I hit up my favorite place in the whole wide world. You know what it is. So let me show you what I got anyways, 'cause you like that, you know? People like seeing the groceries for some reason. But anyways, alright, I'll go through this really quickly. Not a big shop. So I got a salad bowl, some light grated cheese, courgette, coffee, oats, salsa dip, cottage cheese, mixed vegetables, some microwavable rice, pears, bananas, poverty soda, kidney beans, mixed beans, sweet corn, and some tuna. And that is a wrap. That is all I got, and this came to 21.59. You can screenshot that if you want. Yeah, I could think you can see that pretty clearly. All right, so burrito bowl coming up. Burrito bowl, stir-fry, whatever. So it is just all going in the pan. It's gonna be 200 grams of lean diced beef, a pack of long grain rice, and season it with some of this Gymshark lemon herb. And then I'm gonna add in some sweet corn, mixed beans, and then on the to top it, some light cheese and salsa. I'm so excited for this. Let's— it's like, it's the easiest recipe ever. Like, stir fries like this, just so easy. Just put everything in the pan. Check this out. Oh! On with the cheese. Check it out, the burrito bowl, burrito plate in all its glory. Yo, so back in my, my happy place. Um, I'm just like glued to the laptop these days because I've got a lot of beginners, you know, signing up. It's January and they've got like 100 questions, rightfully so. Like, when I started out, I wish I had someone to just tell me what's bullshit and what isn't. Like, I remember Back in the day, I used to sleep with a protein shake beside my bed. I'm not even joking. I thought if I, like, didn't have that there whey protein the second I woke up, like, my biceps would fall off. Thought I'd go all kinds of catabolic. Anyways, so, announcement. You probably noticed, you know, I said that I was going to LA, and you're probably like, Why is he going for 2 weeks? You know, the LA Fit Expo is 2 days. Well, the answer to that is for those 2 weeks I will be staying in the YouTube house. That is just basically a house full of YouTubers. I'll actually link all their channels below. It's like Chelsea Lifts, Jasmine Garcia, Brian Turner, who's organizing the whole thing, to name a few. But yeah, all of them are linked below. So that is like huge for me, you know, like finally I got to collab with some American YouTubers. I'm gonna be the only person kinda coming from a long way away. You know, Vitruvian Physique is there. He's from Canada, but you know, America and Canada are attached. So I'm gonna be a bit of an outsider, so cannot wait for that. And another super cool thing is we are gonna be training in Barbell Brigade, so you're gonna be seeing a lot of familiar faces. So comment down below, you know, what do you think of this? Who do you wanna, you know, see me link up with and stuff like that? But I'm like super excited. The only reason I like had to, you know, keep it under wraps was because we just had to wait until everything was finalized. So that's gonna wrap up this vlog. I'm gonna do some stuff on my laptop now. Hope you enjoyed. Gonna try to come out with a video just before I head off to LA. But yeah, things about to get interesting. So catch you in the next video. Keep it real. I'm outta here.
