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Mini Cut Vlog Day 3

what is up everyone and welcome to the mini cut Vlog day three the last day of the job of the Hut angle CU I did actually order a uh a phone mount for my car um so the the double chain I got to hide it here with uh with my hood uh well not the hood the the jacket kind of I guess turtleneck thing but uh yeah I woke up at 21.8 this morning it is January 3rd so obviously the lowest of the cut so far uh which is what 3 and2 lbs down from what I started at maybe you know 3 lb 4 lb give or take but obviously you know that's that's just water weight right it's not it's not fat it's not muscle when you start a cut you know obviously your carbs oh can I can I go I think this guy's coming but I got to go quick um yeah obviously when you start a cut your carbs are going to significantly decrease so when you eat less carbs um you're going to lose a lot of water why because carbs are basically like sponges they're little sponges in your body they attach to water molecules so when you you consume less of them you're obviously going to have less water in your body more of that water is going to get flushed out because they've got nothing to attach to right those carbs are gone so you know you're not losing muscle you're not losing fat it's just because you're eating less calories because you're eating less carbs you're going to lose weight so obviously that water in your body has a weight right it is you know a substance in your body so I mean it piles up and it has weight so when you lose water you lose weight so that's what's happening at the start of my cut I I expect to lose maybe seven or eight pounds um in the first week so I'm I'm I'm losing like literally a pound a day and I'm still eating like 25 200 calories I'll probably do like a full day of eating um at some point during this kind of Vlog series is my is my hood covering the double chin I got to make sure but um yeah uh so the water weight is obviously uh an important factor in weight loss but it's you know you're not losing fat you're not losing muscle it's not like I've lost 3 lbs of fat you know doing that 3 days is physically impossible so um yeah uh although losing water is obviously a good thing because you know uh Waterway is obviously uh makes you look a little chunky oh we're actually we're behind a school bus now I forgot actually that kids are still in school it's crazy isn't it but uh yeah so today is a poll day uh and it's actually my favorite workout of the training cycle out of all six of my workouts pull a is my favorite it's a short workout I believe there's only five exercises so it's a relatively short workout but um two of my favorite exercises the preacher curl and the tar row are both in today's session which is a good thing uh because those are actually goated machines yeah we've got that today uh I actually have my pre-workout that I totally forgot about that I actually need to start drinking it's the orange Paradise we're just going to stick with with that for the mini cut uh the rocket pop I'm not really a huge fan of and the only other flavor I have is orange Paradise so we're going to stick with that I'm going to keep this intro uh nice and short today because uh yesterday's leg session ended up being you know 26 minutes long that video is actually posted right now it's 2:38 p.m. as I'm heading to the gym uh a quick workout today maybe only an hour 20 an hour and a half uh for those five exercises so um yeah we'll we'll we'll sip on this pre-workout we'll finish it and uh I'll see you in the gym also for those of you who are curious this is the uh the car setup that we've got going on here uh yeah this is the Spider-Man car mount the infamous Spider-Man car mount that's an absolute piece of junk it just Wiggles around everywhere but do not worry folks it is getting replaced um but yeah we are we are at the gym that that is not the gym that is the uh grass but uh yeah let's let's get in the gym so we are back with another voice over and uh judging from the comments on my previous two videos now uh my leg day and my push day I think I'm going to keep these voiceovers even when I get a mic uh and I'll probably just use the mic to uh you know I guess show my grunting uh instead of actually explaining what I'm doing in the gym uh just because I think uh the fitness industry is a little bit oversaturated with that style of video obviously you know Sam suck owns the the kind of Vlog Style videos with him working out plus you know I do pretty much the same workouts you know on rotation every 8 days so me kind of explaining that you know every single time I think is kind of unnecessary so what I'm going to do is during these voiceover sections um I want you guys to comment uh what you want me to answer so like you know some Fitness topics some questions that you have um and some stuff that you want me to talk about in these voiceover sections so that I can you know make these videos uh educational as well as you know entertaining showing my sets instead of just you know you saying all right here's what I do you know this is my workout and you know I can actually answer some questions and make these a little bit more educational so I've picked out two questions that I got on my last two videos and you know I'm going to talk about them uh in the next I guess 6 minutes maybe 7 minutes so first question we've got is from Bombi he says is it necessary to do warm-up sets before almost every exercise I usually just warm up in the beginning love your content by the way thank you bombie for that uh that kind message and yes uh it is obviously necessary to warm up but during uh every exercise it kind of depends right everyone knows that when you warm up obviously your goal is to elevate your body temperature so that you can get some blood flow into the muscle so you're not just going in raw into your workout right obviously you don't want to deadlift 4005 lbs the second you walk into the gym because that's where injuries occur you know your your muscles aren't loose your muscles are obviously you know stiff if you don't loosen them up so that is the the the ESS essence of a warming up before a workout however when it comes to warming up before every exercise it's kind of personal preference right so what I like to do is you know in the in the beginning of my workout uh in order to you know get some blood flow into the muscle I'll do some Dynamic stretching whether or not you want to you know step on a treadmill do some walking do anything that increases your heart rate the point of that is when you increase your your heart rate you know that's where blood flow is is increased right and that's where you know you loosen up the muscle so whether or not you spend 5 minutes on Dynamic stretching or 5 minutes on a stair master or something I mean that's totally up to you although I would recommend doing something just to get your muscles loose and then on your first exercise of the day that's probably when you're going to need the most warm-up sets just because you know your muscle hasn't been trained yet so on this exercise or on this uh session this pull session I did three back exercises as you will see the first exercise I did three warm-up sets so you know I kept kept it nice and short you know four reps maximum and you know the the Reps kind of slowly tapered down as my weight increased kind of like a pyramid set um and then my second exercise this lat pull down that you see I I only did one a warm-up set mainly just because you know my my back my lats my traps they were already warm from the first exercise that I didn't really necessarily need that uh you know those extra warm-up sets but in terms of how your warm-up sets should be structured I recommend doing no more than five reps uh you know you see a lot of people you know throw on tons of you know low you know low weight High Reps you know that's just that's just increasing fatigue right you don't want to you you don't want to increase fatigue and make your sets less productive you want to just loosen up the muscles and almost get used to that rate right it's almost a mindset thing you know obviously you know if you walk into the gym you know you know you're not going to be able to you know perform at your best you're not going to be able to use your heaviest weight right away so uh it's important to to use you know a lighter weight you know even if you're doing one warm-up set you want to use a lighter weight just just so that your mind can kind of get ready for that heaviest set instead of just going into your next set and you know doing your heaviest weight it's obviously you know it's not great for the muscle it can increase injury and also just as a mindset kind of thing that's why I do you know with this last exercise you know I I even did a warm-up set on my third back exercise although it's probably not super necessary but just just instead of you know walking over to that machine and just hitting my heaviest my top weight I want to do at least one warm-up set just to kind of get the feeling of the motion and uh kind of think of it like that way so although it's not necessary to do a warm-up set on you know before every exercise it kind of just depends on how many you know sets you did for that muscle group whether or not it's actually warm uh and you know whether or not you can kind of get used to that weight right away so if you know if I'm doing something really light like a chest fly and it's my last chest exercise of the day at that point you know my chest chest is already so warm that it's probably not necessary to do a warm-up set but you know if I'm full stacking a LP machine then I'm probably going to want at least one warm-up set just to kind of get my mind ready for that weight uh and to make sure that you know I'm I'm ready for that motion so yeah that's what I would say for warming up you know keep it keep it short only you know one minute of one minute of rest in between your warm-up sets is fine keep the Reps uh nice and low so that you're not in you know including a lot of fatigue that impacts your sets and uh yeah that's pretty much it for warming up next question we got from Tim L is it better to reduce the weight on each set rather than maintaining the same weight so when it comes to choosing a weight for each exercise obviously you want to choose a weight that will allow you to stay in your desired rep range for that day so let's say I I'm trying to do six to eight reps I pretty much stick with that rep range on every single exercise you know if I only get six reps on my first set well what's what what does that tell me it tells me that my second set I probably won't get six reps right because you know as you lift weight you know as you train a muscle that muscle obviously builds up fatigue and if you're training correctly your first set is always going to be better than your second set because that's when the muscle is the most fresh right if if I get six reps of of bicep curls on my first set and I keep the weight the same and I get eight reps on my second set what does that tell me Well it tells me that you know my first set probably wasn't that productive right if I was able to get two additional reps after my biceps were already trained you know to failure on the first rep then you know something is probably not right something is going wrong with that first set because your warm-up sets should be what you know obviously gets your muscle nice and fresh um and if you're if you're increasing your reps while keeping the weight the same then something something is wrong right um ideally when you train you want to uh you want to stay within your desired rep range so obviously if I'm getting six reps on the first set then it I probably in order to get you know stay within that rep rate R within that 68 rep range I'm probably going to need to reduce the weight either by 5 lb 10 lb just to make sure that I'm staying within that rep range I I've repeated that you know numerous times apologize for that but uh yeah obviously it it it kind of just depends on how many reps you get the first time and how many uh how much weight you're using so you know if I'm using uh 150 lbs on a bicep curl and I can only get six reps then you know maybe I'll use 140 lbs on my next and I'll you know either get six reps seven reps or you know whatever it is but uh judging from you know my first set that's you know kind of when I make the decision whether or not to drop the weight or increase the weight and when it comes to progressing you want to look at each set individually right so you know on the on the next workout I'll look at my first set okay what weight did I use how many reps did I do and that's you know kind of what I'll aim for for my next workout and then you know I'll look at my second set and I'll I'll I'll kind of Judge it from there um between workout to workout right you want to take one set at a time uh and look at it individually as opposed to just trying to progress you know let's you know let's say oh I want to progress my BP curls you know don't progress Everything at Once don't look at say like okay I did this for you know two sets uh so I need to progress on both no just look at one set at a time you know what did you do for your first set do that for your first set next workout what did you do for your second set do that for your next set second workout you know whether or not you increase reps kind of look at it like that uh and take it one step at a time nice and slow so yeah that is it for the the talking points of this video uh I hope you guys learned something and uh if there is anything that you want me to talk about uh feel free to leave a comment down below and I guess let's just admire the posing that is going down in this video some nice uh three quarterback pose uh just some back shots obviously well I not not back shots but uh yeah you know what I mean uh some front shot here of a lat spread and yeah uh man I'm out of breath it's it's hot in my room right now I I should have opened a window right here I've got too many lights on I'm actually boiling I am baking right now but uh yeah I hope you enjoy the voiceover all right and uh the cardio is done the workout is complete I just did 10 minutes of stair Master as per usual for my upper body days although today was a lot easier than the first time just cuz I kind of knew what to expect so um although stair Master is very difficult I did the uh five minutes not five minutes 10 minutes uh on five speed um which you know is pretty moderate Pace it's nothing it's probably like one step per second maybe even slower than that but that [ __ ] thing is hard especially when you don't grab onto the handles um but yeah got a rest day tomorrow I'm looking forward to that I'm absolutely gassed so I guess let's let's get home now the mic is coming in on tomorrow so by the time I record my next workout which is a push day uh I will have my mic which is good cuz I know a lot of you guys want to see the miked up workouts um so that should be good yeah let's head on out of here without hitting this car that um but yeah calories are roughly 2500 as I said although I don't actually track my calories I've never been one to track just cuz I eat pretty much the same thing every day so I mean if you know if you know what you're eating it doesn't really matter I mean the amount matters but it's like I mean if you're eating the same thing every day you know as long as you're losing weight right then it doesn't really matter but uh I should probably see how many roughly I have I think four meals per day maybe five meals roughly 500 calories each so that's kind of where I get that estimate but I should probably track him but yeah um I might talk about it in the voice over if not uh I should I should be training ABS on P days uh except uh with my low back I don't I kind of don't like that that crunching motion right now so I'm just playing it safe but um because my pull days are so short I I only do five exercises that I would usually throw an ab exercise in at the end like just a cable crunch kind of thing just to to make sure I'm getting my ab training in although you know with with with abs it's not like super necessary to train um you know every single day well I mean not that I would ever train it every day but it's like you don't even really need to train them at all especially on a bulk maybe you know if you're super lean and you want to see your abs maybe it's worth it to train if you really want to grow them I guess you know bulking you know would help with muscle growth just cuz abs are just like any other muscle but I feel like abs are so easy to maintain that it's like it's not even necessary to train them directly in my opinion um but what I what I usually do is just you know one set of cable crunches at the end of my pool day for two sets a week and that I would call that AB training but right now I'm not even doing anything for him I just I honestly couldn't care less so so yeah that's that's that's what my pull days are looking like just you know very simple back workout uh a rear delt movement and a bicep movement and that's it uh ever since I started training uh biceps with partials as you can see on that last set uh I don't do another bicep exercise so I only do one bicep exercise for the day it's pretty much always just creacher curls I don't even do like uh dumbbell curls anymore or hammer curls for that matter I don't even do those anymore it's just basically pracher curls just cuz I I love that machine but it might be worth it to start doing some Hammer crawls again because it is probably worth it for the brachialis uh however I'm just kind of I guess I'm just kind of a little bit lazy uh but it is what it is this is the longest light ever uh but anyway yeah that that's pretty much it for the workout um in the voiceover I'll probably you know answer some questions that you guys left on the previous video on the leg day video am I like is this light like a sensor that I'm not on or something this is actually the longest light ever but anyway uh yeah I hope you guys enjoyed the workout uh hope you guys are enjoying the Vlogs and uh yeah I'll see you