 what is going on welcome welcome back welcome to another video and the first well the first day of the cut or the second mini cut of this series so we're at day 296 today of making games and it's 7.30 in the morning and I've just finished a night shift and I've got today and tomorrow off work and yesterday I made the video that we would have seen last just talking about what was coming in the future and what I had planned and how I was going to structure things so my opinions haven't changed they normally do each morning it's fucking something different but my mind is set right now so basically from here today's dates Monday the 5th of June and I am basically going to stick to 2500 calories per day my macros I will let you know what they are when I know I don't know exactly how it's going to turn out but some basically what I'm planning on doing is at the end of each week of the cuts I will have some data obviously to show you guys I'm going to track absolutely everything on my fitness pal and yeah at the end of each week I will just make a quick video running through what my macros were running through what my weight's done what my body is doing how my training is going and things like that I've cut weight I've cut body fat many times in the past I know what I know it needs to be done I've got a few tools on my sleeve as far as cardio as far as intermittent fasting I like to utilize intermittent fasting when I'm trying to cut some body fat basically for the fact the simple fact that I get hungry at night and if I go to bed feeling hungry it's it's not a good time for me so if I can save my calories to the end of the day or save some of them so that I get a good meal before I go to bed that makes me a lot happier in the long run so with that said this morning I haven't had anything yesterday was my final cheat meal which was KFC and definitely got that out of the system so that's good this morning like I said seven thirty in the morning I've I've had a bit of sleep so I'm feeling good I'm gonna go downstairs I'm gonna make up a pre-workout drink and then we're gonna head to the gym and smash some weights so I'm doing CrossFit I'm doing both bodybuilding and CrossFit for example this morning you know I've got I've got most of the day off had a night shift last night but that doesn't matter so what I'm gonna do is do weights in the morning and then eat throughout the day fuel up again and then go and do a CrossFit workout at night so on my days off that's pretty much how I'm gonna structure it I do have a couple of friends who do CrossFit with me and if they are gonna hit a class and I've got time off I'll go and do a class with them obviously ideally I'd like to hit classes with my mates but obviously CrossFit is a brand new group of mates so you know I'm gonna be friends with everyone there eventually anyway so I really shouldn't shouldn't be thinking like that but today it's it's fucking cold outside I don't want to go to CrossFit right now I want to go later on this afternoon so we're gonna go to the gym do some weights and we're gonna do some arms today so arm stay is always good you know I think my arms are probably one of my weaker I actually you know what it might do some chest yeah I'm thinking we do some bench and my thrones and close grip bench to do some triceps as well so I'll let you know when I know I'll see you guys back here after the workout I won't take the camera down I'm just gonna smash it out concentrate on what I need to do which is get the most out of this workout I haven't eaten anything yet so I'm assuming the pump will be average at best but it's progressively overloading that's the key so if I can lift as heavy as I lifted last time that's a success and going forward obviously being in a caloric deficit if I can just continue the strength that I'm at at the moment I don't want to I'm not gonna try and push for any PB's well I mean I could but it's it's probably not gonna be realistic the last the last couple of weeks I have actually you know gotten my strength up to a point where I am hitting a few PB's here and there so I am probably as strong as I've ever been which is a fantastic point to start cutting and that's exactly what we're gonna do so I will see you guys back here for meal number one which will be my post workout meal and until then have a great morning guys see you later alright so just before I do go guys I'll just run through a couple of sups that I am currently taking and I will be continuing to take so recently I've probably had like one of my first sort of niggly injuries probably the last couple of weeks and it's in my elbow and I couldn't say exactly what it is but basically it just feels the joint just feels compromised sometimes feels a little bit weak like the lubrication just isn't there and yeah I wouldn't say it's anything to have tendon I I really don't know at this point but what I am doing is supplementing with a powerful anti-inflammatory which is glucosamine and I've had this in my cupboard for you know months and months probably a year or so and I've never really had any reason to use it but right now you know when you do start feeling something going wrong or what you assume is going wrong you do start looking for supplements that will help and this is definitely something that will help it's it's made for people with arthritis and what you know with serious debilitating you know joint issues mine's not that bad but you know I don't want it to become bad so we're supplementing with four tablets per day which is six grams of glucosamine as well as that I've got vitamin C now usually you know I'll have one of these around the house whether I take it or not is another another question I have been leaving it on the bench so I will probably take four to six four to six tablets per day which is two to three grams of vitamin C per day so we're on the glucosamine we're on vitamin C and as well as that we've got creatine creatine is you know one of the most important supplements for performance as far as a natural lifter goes and it's something that I have struggled with you know once again just just forgetting to take and you know if you take it for three days out of the week every week it's not going to be effective so you really need to take it every day I have been recently but you know once again some days I forget so we've got the three supplements here glucosamine vitamin C and creatine and if I'm going to take them I will literally just that's five here we go so we've got five of these they're actually quite fucking big man there's no way I'd be doing two of these at once so one at a time that's that and then we've got creatine now creatine I used to think I had to mix with a drink to take it but the reality is is that you don't because it tastes like like nothing so I probably got about ten grams there don't know if you can see it but honestly it's just like this that's the creatine and last but not least let's have a couple of these two there in the mouth I just like to suck on them like lollies cuz I actually like the taste and that's it guys that's it for sucks right now pre-workout pre-workout drink today I've got choices actually got a lot of choice so first choice would be amino energy one of my classic favorites and choice number two would be one of these so yeah pretty good choices I'm gonna stick with this one this morning what we'll do each scoop has about 50 milligrams of caffeine and with that said I'll probably want three scoops I think we're finally ready to go let's go train some chest