 So we just got up to Iwaki no Friday night and we're gonna go for a quick swim Before the Sun goes down and I'm gonna take my fishing rods No, because taking us we'll have a quick swim and a quick fish and then dad's got the barbecue going up. Yeah So come back and have barbecue. Oh fish for dinner Didn't even get a bite. But anyway, it was nice down here. Nice and peaceful Got some grounding in it had a good swim And slowly watching the Sun go down So it wasn't all bad You know, I'm gonna hit back up and apparently dad's got some states. So we'll have to have a barbecue I think too exciting to report about everything's really coming along nicely to get these potatoes here There's over here going crazy, so Press because it's starting to come up. These ones not under the cover Taking a bit of a beating so I just come out every now and then these ones under the netting They're doing a lot better. What's the tomatoes coming through here? Zucchini. Look at these guys go. We're getting about probably one Coming through so that's really cool pumpkins. We've got a little baby a few little butternut squash coming along there, which is cool and Yeah, more tomatoes over here. There's a corn Coming up. We're going away for about a week A little bit dry, so I'm hoping the rain comes and we don't come back to a to a trash or to everything dried up But anyway, that's that's the gardening so it's lunchtime and Today I have It's pretty plain, but My go-to meal went home It's a what I've got today is meat Salt and some organic cheese. That's it. It's just get something in me Usually I'd add some veggies, but we are nothing in the fridge at the moment super super lazy meal, but enough about food this week's book You can farm By Joel Salatin of Hollyface Farms So I've read a few of his books Folks this ain't normal. I love that book like loved it. I've literally just started this, you know, like Two chapters in so I can't really comment too much about it, but yeah I mean, I'm enjoying it playing here in New Zealand is to get some land so we can Do a little bit of farming, you know the self-sufficient lifestyle off-grid. See me off grid See me self-reliant. I had the chokes have maybe one or two kettle. I like your reading books Better But I'm hoping any day now we get a section and if you do have any book record vindations for me Check it out sometime. So talk to you later on so training time a time of the week just had my pre-workout Little bit that keto pre-workout some merminos and some bacon soda Gonna bust out a few few sets of deadlifts here. Just doing a warm-up here with one One forties We'll work up. I don't know. Maybe around that 200 mark again maybe a few chin-ups and then maybe a floor press have done that for a while and If I've got time I might do some front squats This is all the weight that I have. I got a five and two fires here. So another ten ten Same on that side 200 plus a bar 20 so 220, you know So this is a lot of weight for someone who hasn't really been there lifting for a while doing any strength programming So if I get it up, then at least you know You can get strong without following advanced programs or doing five times a week training I don't get it up then you can turn around and laugh at me and say well That's what happens when you don't train properly. Let's go and see how it before called for a Not too bad one of the fifth, but tell us the last one was a shake material So I figured I'll just call it there, but I don't know if you noticed But I had a little cheerleading squad coming at the end Which is a bit of a laugh, but yeah, that was good, huh? So 220 kilos four reps haven't deadlifted in Five weeks, maybe haven't done any strength programming for a long time. That's all the weight I have so I can't go up but uh Go me All right, little presses are done Looked up to the one set at a hundred kilos and five reps at a hundred full pause at the bottom, you know proper straight floor presses Drops it down to 80 did six or there and drops it down to 60 And I did a 12 there 13 there, so it's me got a good chest pump on That's all I'm doing for chess and now I'm gonna pack up and do a few chin ups Wait a shins same thing drops it down. Rebecca's already sitting. It's nearly ready. So no front squats today Actually that'll be it for the year crazy. So, you know, let's finish this off I'm done I'm pooped That was actually really hot Just had no strength to me. So it was as heavy deadlifts, but Anyway, that's a wrap for me another training session done for the week Short and sweet, huh? Hey, so I mentioned that I'm about to go away for a few weeks of Christmas and New Year's and I ordered a bunch of supplements from My supplement shop. I have um and thankfully it arrived. I thought it would be a good video to Show you what I got specifically for But traveling first thing in here. I don't recall ordering these Maybe it was a freebie that could actually come in and Handy wrap up some leftover ham and some salads. What else we got PQQ Life extension, which is good anti-oxidant. I'll be taking one of those maybe two of those a day calcium D. Glucrate Rebecca wanted this for her skin as we get ready for the wedding raw thyroid Extract that's not necessarily for the holidays, but just something I haven't on hand likewise with a selenium Stress B the thorn product This is um, this is a good one to have when you're traveling or you know having some alcohol or Now getting sun under stress. Not that will be under stress, but you know this holiday time So thorn products really good Some organic maple syrup a curcumin anti-inflammatory Again as we use when we get some sign and just what when we're traveling we bought a vitamin C here because I was getting low Diviment extract because they make some mint slice zinc Because I was getting low and I haven't had oysters for a while kelp noodles for Salads and stuff some extra magnesium the slate Mary sauce organic So that's handy to have instead of soy sauce. I actually want to make some brisket smoke some brisket And I just realized those men's get out of the freezer today. I'm gonna have to go do that now That's my new supplements gonna go get that brisket. It's a little bit too big to put in the barbecue so I'm gonna Try throw it out Christmas came a few days early for me I tried myself to a few new toys for my my gym set up here So I just turned up Friday afternoon before the holidays, so a perfect timing. Otherwise, I would have been waiting a couple weeks So I got a bunch of kettle bells in here to complete the set. We've got a inversion table here So that'll be fun looking forward to hanging around on that another mat Complete my my flaws here One more weight plate and a few handles in here, too So I can do rows it's really hard to do like super slow rows with the barbell And I don't really have any dumbbells and kiddwells. I don't really like rowing with them. So I got these and I'll use them with my bands And then I'll be able to do slow sort of row movements with that and I'm sure I'll be able to Do some pull downs and whatnot and more toys for the gym Excited exciting my Christmas present. So Yeah, the inversion table will be fun I've been like looking forward to having one of them for a long time Just you know, I just have some lower back injuries and sometimes it's nice just Hanging right like even even hanging this way like sometimes That just helps at the end of the day. I don't have time to unpack all this stuff I forgot like two hours before Rebecca gets home and I promised her I'll switch off. We go out for dinner Have a few drinks enjoy. It's her last day at work. So enjoy the end of the year celebrate You know the good wins I've had this year work wise And um, and then we're gonna wait first thing tomorrow morning So I've literally got like two hours to finish about 50 things on my two-year list But these toys will have to wait, but I'm excited