 Right, everybody what is going on? Holy shit man. Definitely got a bit of fullness back in the face after coming back from Thailand. This last week eating has not been an issue I'll tell you that much. I've just finished a night shift that's pretty much the only type of shift I've been doing since I got back. I had one day shift on the Friday and then I've done four night shifts since then and we're back at Friday the next week. So it's been exactly a week pretty much since I got back from Thailand and I'm just gonna drive home right now. I'm gonna have a coffee. I'm gonna sit down and tell you guys exactly how things been going. Sit down on the stairs at mine and tell you guys how things been going as far as training, nutrition. Really happy to say that everything is back on track. My weight is climbing once again and we're making gains. So that's the main thing. I'll see you guys back at home in a little bit to tell you a bit more in depth on how things have been going. Alright guys we are back. We're back at home and I'm just gonna try and focus this shit up. Not sure how the lighting is looking but last time I made a video on these very stairs the lighting was absolutely terrible. So I'm hoping, I'm hoping it's a little better this morning I think it is. Right so today's date it's Friday the 5th of May. Not sure if you can see that or not but it's about 8 o'clock in the morning Friday the 5th of May. Got back to Alice Springs a week and a day ago. So last Thursday I got back with about 36 hours no sleep so I'd been up for 36 hours. I'd managed to catch probably one or two hours sleep on a couple of the flights that we had to catch back from Thailand and I managed to get back to Alice Springs at about five at night on Thursday five o'clock at night with two hours sleep under my belt and you know just this feeling that I just had to get back in the gym. So you know I try and sometimes I try and brush it off and say that the gym's not that important to me. You know if I'm looking at it as a hobby as a thing it's probably not that important in the grand scheme things but for me personally on a day-to-day basis for me to be as positive as possible just for me for me personally mentally it really helps me just be content I think. I got straight back in the gym that night I hit some arms I think the next day I must hit some back then hit some chest then I did legs on the Sunday then Monday what do we do I think maybe some arms again and then I did shoulders and then I did back and then yesterday I did legs so yeah I've definitely I've really got back into it guys there's no you know there's no there's no easy way to say it I sit on Snapchat when I first got back on that Thursday night when I was just about to hit the gym after I was so tired you know I said to everyone the only way to get back on if you've fallen off the bandwagon you know it's not the end of the world okay the only the only way to get back on it is to get back on it the only way to get back in the gym and start you know making gains again is to get back in the gym you've got to put one foot in front of the other and actually step foot in the gym start lifting yes it's not going to be easy and I'll tell you what the first few workouts weren't easy but like I knew once I've hit each muscle group you know once or twice I'll get that fullness back once I've started eating again which I have done I'll get that you know a bit of fullness back the weight will start rising again and my my motivation will be sky high once again so I'm happy to report that yes I've hit each muscle group at least once I've hit legs twice I've hit chest twice I've hit arms twice um and uh you know I'm feeling I've hit back twice so I pretty much hit everything twice to be honest um really really cracked back into it I I felt like I could do that with you know minimal need for rest because I'd had two weeks off the gym uh so if anything guys you know I'm not I'm definitely not kicking myself for having two weeks off I was well I was prepared to do that I probably wasn't prepared to drink as much as I did but you know whatever that's in the past my liver luckily your liver is the most capable organ in the body of reproducing itself so I'm hoping that 10 days out of 365 will not if I can kill my liver but anyways definitely felt like it for a couple of days there so as far as strength goes yes my strength has been down but for example you know I tried I tried training back uh after being back for a couple of days my top sets on the bent over row had to max out at 100 kg I was putting 105 or 110 kg on there for the bent over row before I left uh two days ago when I was training back for the second time um I made sure that I I hit bent over row first that was the mistake in the first workout I hit the lap pull down first I went pretty hard on that obviously some of my strength has been fatigued and I'm not going to be able to hit the usual weight I can on the bent over row so hit the bent over row first happy to report I got eight clean reps at 110 kg which is pretty much you know bang on where I was before I left keeping in mind guys that I did cut for three weeks um before I went to Thailand and then cut another two kilos whilst I was away so in total I went from 105 down to 98 at my lightest now the the state I was in at 98 kg coming back from holiday was a very deflated flat state um I was very depleted um so you know all it took was a couple of days of eating normally again getting that fluid back in because that's the thing about Thailand is so humid it's fucking hard to stay hydrated so your weight is thrown off because of that so you know get my fluids back in get my meals back in and my weight has you know shot right back up to 100 kg um just like that so currently I am weighing about 100 kg I'm going to do a weigh-in for you guys first thing in the morning it's probably about that in the gym you know it's about 102 which makes me feel good you know getting that weight back and getting that size back the only thing I want to watch is obviously my stomach now I did shape up pretty well before I went away I did have you know some resemblance of abs coming through at the moment because I've blasted my my body with all this food and stuff and water I'm feeling quite bloated and I'm definitely not going to do a physique update but I do know that I'm putting the I'm putting the weight back on I'm getting that you know fullness back and as a natural um that's really important you know uh when you start getting flat when you start reducing your carbs and cutting into things it's extremely hard to get a pump in the gym and yeah you do feel flat I mean even when I'm fucking but anyways that's that's all part of it so with that being said yeah training's going really well um I could I could give you guys a few numbers you know squats I'm still hitting three plates for seven to nine reps my top sets I did an incline hammer strength machine on one of my chest days I put three plates on there did nine reps um what am I doing uh arms I was doing 26 kg hammer curls which is pretty good for me um I was doing easily uh 40 kg straight bar curls um and what do we got triceps yeah I was doing sets of 12 to 15 body weight dips everything's going pretty good nutrition I would honestly have to say that my my calories have been up around 4 000 a day since being back you know I'm not fucking around uh I feel like I've got you know feel like we've got my appetite back which I'm really happy about you guys know that when I first started this series and I started eating well again it didn't take long for me to sort of fill out and I get my best results when I'm eating a lot especially around the times I train I'm not counting anything at the moment I'm not trapping macros I really should be because it's such a great tool it's such a great piece of data to have in front of you um your diet and macros to justify whatever results you're getting fast at the moment I don't feel that's necessary I know I'm in a caloric surplus I know I'm training hard and those are the two major keys when it comes to building muscle so that's about it I'm going to leave you guys now um I don't know what I'm going to do right now I've got another night shift tonight so that should be interesting um but not really I do like my night shifts night shifts are quite easy as opposed to a day shift you know 12 hours at night when you don't really have to worry about too much is a lot less stressful than 12 hours in a day where your client is just at you all day every day so night shifts have been a nice easy introduction back into work after the two weeks off but I'm sure it's gonna get stressful from here at times but hey touch wood it might not so anyways guys that is it's the first week back of bulking I'm feeling really good about how things are going I'm excited to to make it to day 365 guys that is the plan it started off as one year of gains this this series and someone called me out after about 30 days because I changed it to making gains because I never thought that I would actually get to one year of of making gains or one year of making these videos so this series has definitely kept me motivated it's kept me accountable and I can thank you guys for that thanks for watching look out for the next couple of episodes I will be trying to change up the content I'm going to go down to the rugby field and get some cardio in so that should be cool and you know I really need to watch a few tutorials about how to actually use this camera because it's a fucking nice camera and I don't even know how to use it properly so that's what I'm going to do you guys have a fantastic day thanks for watching once again eat well train hard and I'll see you guys in the next one peace