 what is going on guys it's the next day it's Tuesday it's about 8.15 in the morning and I've just been rudely awoken by my boss saying that I need to get into work an hour and a half early unbeknown to me so that's not the ideal start to the day is it but we get over it last night the footage that you saw was post back session so I hit some back we did I went over to the squat rack put put some weight on the bar and just went ham on some rack pulls so at the gym that I went to yesterday they actually don't have a specific like deadlift platform so it's a lot easier to do rack pulls and you know it's a lot better on the back as well but I I sort of switched between rack pulls and deadlifts deadlifts is one of my favorite exercises for intensity and you know if I'm in that mood that I just want to move some fucking weight deadlifts is what I really enjoy but we did rack pulls last night so probably about 10 sets total I'm working up to 200 kg for sets of eight and I did 180 for sets of you know 12 to 15 so there's probably about four or five working sets and three three sets three warm-up sets to get up to my working weight and then another couple of warm down sets to just finish off the pyramid so either way last night I had a bit of a bit of a binge quite a good feed not too bad but we're going to see what I weigh this morning so this is going to be the the starting weight let's see so that is 92.7 kilograms and I reckon that's around about 205 pounds so that is the starting point guys 92.7 the lightest I've ever been was 80 I think I got I dipped under 87 kgs once in my prep last year for my show so that you know if I if I get down to 87 and I'm a little bit leaner than I was before that means I've put on a little bit of muscle and that's all you can hope for in natural bodybuilding you know it's a it's a marathon not a sprint and you know nothing's going to come easy you only get out what you put in and you've got to put in a lot of work in natural bodybuilding to make to make gains unless you're genetically blessed like that 250 pound monster that I talked about yesterday which I'm certainly not so yeah 92.7 kgs that's the first weigh-in now today I'm going to make it really really simple I've got a 12 hour shift at work and I and I've got to get in there early like I said so I'm just going to fast today I've done it before you know I had my last meal at probably two o'clock in the morning and it's quarter past eight now so I'm just going to fast throughout the whole day I finish work at nine o'clock and then I'm going to come home see how I feel I'm probably going to feel quite depleted and stuff but you know it's all good it's it's the first day of dieting so I'm not going to lose any muscle that's for sure and when I get home I'll have a good hit of carbs and protein and then I'll probably go and work out so check in with you guys throughout the day see how we're going but this is day one day one of my road to redemption as far as my body's concerned it's not too bad at the moment but I do want to get in some really really good shape because you know my some of my financial goals actually depend on it I need to I need to have the look that's necessary to be successful in the fitness industry so that's one of my other goals too but we've also got one other cool thing happening today which involves money and I will I can't forget it actually I've got to write it down better write it down in my hand but either way I'll see you guys later on and I will check in with you guys tell I'll tell you what I'm doing and I'm tired right now I need to get some caffeine I don't know about you guys but I like my drinks cold especially here in Alice Springs I think it's going to be 40 degrees today so we need plenty of motherfucking ice or else that shit is going to go warm straight away actually work is about 20 minutes out of Alice but it's still no well it's not any closer to anywhere else Alice Springs is pretty fucking remote if you if you ever watch the Australian weather the the number that you see right in the middle of Australia is Alice Springs so it is on the map there's about 30 000 people that live here but it's certainly it's not a city it's a town so but it's my second home and you know I love the place to be honest the scenery is beautiful and I'm sure I'll show you more of that in future episodes but basically a couple of things in my mind I'm I'm just actually driving into town to go to a second client's house so I did a few hours at my normal place now I'm going into town to work at this other place that we work at so I just thought I'd take this opportunity to run you through a couple of plans that I had today um which need to be done so basically what I've actually decided to do is to keep my credit card at bay just pay the pay the minimum amount and use that cash that I've got on my other account as a deposit on an investment property because the way I see it man I'm not 100 happy in my job if I decide to leave the banks are going to look at me you know negatively until I've got another a good you know a good base wherever I decide to go whatever job I decide to do it's going to be at least six to twelve months before the banks will even look at me again um to to lend me some more money to buy an investment property so what I've decided to do is just to get in on the market as soon as I can I've got my first place now I'm looking at an investment property um my offer has actually been accepted which is fantastic but what that means is that this is real now this is real shit and today I've actually got to put the first thousand dollars deposit down in a trust account then what I've got to do is get a building and pest inspection in the next 14 days once those conditions are met I pay the remainder of $10,000 so I'll pay another nine and that that holds the property and says that I'm happy with everything and the property the deal goes unconditional so at that point I've my 10 grand is locked in and I have another the 21 days following that to then get all my finance ready and on the 21st day following that I will um I'll be doing the settlement money will be transferred the um the title will be in my name and the rental income will start coming in my name too so what I'm hoping is that with with my first loan I didn't actually have to pay any mortgage payments for the first month so I'm hoping that will happen on this one and I'm also going to inquire about just doing interest only as well because um you know just to decrease costs like first up until I until I really know my financial situation how I'm going paying off two places you know I'd like to just pay interest on this investment property so it's really exciting you know as I as I mentioned before this is the first step in my ultimate dream to become you know a successful property investor and to not have to work a normal nine to five job anymore this is this is the first the first step so the first house I bought was worth 360,000 this house I got for 291 so that is you know total debt of 651,000 which is it's scary but at the same time I know what I need to do and these numbers don't really scare me to be fair so my total debt to be 651 actually not won't it'll be less the 40 grand or 40 or 50 grand equity that I'll have so I'll have around about 600,000 dollars worth of worth of debt but I will have 380 dollars a week coming in from my investment property I will have 200 a week coming in from my flatmate at my place so you know that's 580 dollars a week that's helping me pay my mortgages and and with my income you know I do have disposable income I don't have any kids I don't have a partner I've got a few bills but I still do have the disposable income to use to cashflow these properties for at least the first two years um and then we'll see what happens after that but yeah so all right what two things I have to do today I've got to go to the bank pay the minimum payment or my credit cards they can get off my back and then I have to go and make this thousand dollar deposit into the trust account to hold this place for me so I'm really excited I um yeah this is the first of many I hope so like I was saying yesterday the people in my circles people around my age they just don't they just um well I don't know if it's that if it's the fact that they don't have the income um you know I just fell into this job I'm a disability support worker and after a year's worth of that I got promoted to shift supervisor now I would never have thought that I'd be a supervisor um but once you get to know your job and you get to know what people are meant to do and when they're meant to do it you can be a supervisor and Alice brings us an awesome place in that you can get opportunities to move up the ladder in whatever field you're going to be in so I chose care work now I'm a supervisor I've got that income and I'm in a position where I can buy an investment property and I can't fucking wait because it's on the Gold Coast and it's mean and honestly at the end of the day I think I'll probably live there at some point like it's it's a really sweet place um in a awesome complex similar to what I've got now like in a complex sort of setting but much much bigger cheaper and that's yeah it's an awesome deal. Kumara is the place that I've decided to buy for various reasons which I'll I'll go into in a future episode um but yeah for now all you guys need to know is that I'm buying my second property and the deal will be going unconditional in two weeks and that is when shit gets really serious and that's when I need to have my finance sorted which I will be doing over the next few days so that's it guys just a little bit of an update I've got lots of things that I need to do lots of things that are going through my head at the moment but I'm hoping that in you know in that 45 days time or however long it's going to be I will have the second property I'll be in New Zealand on holiday because that's coming up which is going to be awesome and you know life will be will be rolling let's see how we go I'll check in with you guys later on still fasting it's about one o'clock in the afternoon I'm feeling okay feeling a little hungry so you know I may cut it a little bit short but we'll see guys just a quick word on the investment property now first thing I'm going to say is that not every property is going to be a good investment um you really have to do your research it's not a matter of just going out and buying one property and expecting it to go up in value I mean that doesn't happen you might get lucky but it's probably a bad thing if you get lucky on your first one because then you'll go and try it again and really fuck up so um you know there's a few there's a few things that I looked for which was obviously a a low um vacancy rate uh I don't want any dramas with trying to get tenants in my place obviously want a a um up and coming area so places with infrastructure with with plans in place to to uh you know increase population increase jobs and therefore increase prices and um the place that I've decided is a place called kumara or upper kumara and that is about 20 minutes um north west of the gold coast going inland towards brisbane um and you know it's been on my it's been on my mind for a while now that place in particular and um and it just so happens that at the end of last year there was after 10 to 15 years of talks finally a massive kumara town center has been signed off and it will start and it will be being built um they've even had to they've they've had to put 70 million dollars into the highway to um to accommodate for all the new traffic new people that are going to be coming around that area and not only that but the common wealth games are being held in the gold coast in two years in 2018 so that is another huge draw card and um I'm happy with my purchase and I'll go through the details in the future but um 291,000 decent deal and I'm guaranteed to make money on that one day I'll take that and that's the main thing so I'll talk to you guys later I gotta get back to work all right body a couple of things are done I paid the credit card so that's good and I have paid the first thousand dollars of the deposit to the real estate agent so there's no turning back now one thing that is worrying me is the fact that I actually only got approved for 250,000 so this place the offer that got accepted was 291,000 now I have effectively bitten off a little bit more than I can chew but I have a plan and it's going to work out and if I want something I'm going to get it and I'm going to make it happen so I didn't want to miss out on this place I'd been researching a lot a lot of different places um for a while around the kumara area every single one that I was going for was gone like that it was gone they don't even stay on the market at least uh more than a week these um three bed two bathroom townhouses so I finally got myself one it's an awesome one I'm really happy with don't have to put any work into it um the tendency is just going to roll over so it's fantastic I'm fucking stoked and I can't wait to actually go and see it to be honest but um until then I am fucking starving it's about five o'clock still fasting and we're about to go back into town so I'm actually going to get something to eat because I just cannot wait I can't last I'm too fucking hungry so uh yeah but the abs are there so all we have to do is sculpt it a little bit more and we'll be back back in uh fine form so I'm fucking hungry I can't even think I gotta get some food all right I could not wait first thing in the menu one honey sandwich guys so I just finished work and you know I'm feeling I'm feeling all right not too exhausted I was feeling pretty fucking shit before um but I had that monster and that sort of picked me up a bit and um I had another sandwich so I am full of carbs but no protein and that is not ideal so first thing I'm going to do when I get home is have a good amount of protein um I've got some chicken there I got some Greek yogurt and um and some tuna so I'll decide you know whatever I want to have it's all good um because at the moment I'm trying to hit about 200 grams of protein a day uh I've tried to hit that every day for the last three or four years and it's it's worked pretty well for me so um yeah I'll tell you what I am fucking hungry right now so this tastes like the shit that shit tastes like that shit not shit