im in new panty & stocking! also back workout

im in new panty & stocking! also back workout

Hi everyone, it’s me, John. Uh, today we’re doing back. We’re doing weighted pull-ups at the gym. I did that last time, I believe, and they were really not great, but I feel like I’ve improved a lot, which is good. My back has gotten a lot stronger. It’s only been 4 days. No, it’s been it’s been like a week, but the last time I went for it, uh, I was doing a lot better. So, that is what we’re going to do today. Also, I’m in Panny and Stocking on Amazon, which is out now. Uh, at least the first episode is at the time of recording this video. And my character, I can’t say for a couple of weeks, but I can tell you it’s going to be very cool. It’s going to be a nice surprise, and I can’t wait to share more about it. This is one I’ve been working on for a while and it has been so much fun. I think it’s the most fun I’ve ever had recording an anime, which is awesome, dude. These directions over the video kind of crazy, but it’s fine. Um, yeah. I don’t know. Today I wanted to I was I was looking at a thing today that a lot of there was a lot of buzz online about a couple things about the casting of the new Superman. Uh David Corinwatet I think is his name. And it turns out that Mr. gun cast him because he watched a movie Pearl and he saw his character in in that movie and it was such a small role like it was a tiny tiny tiny role. I don’t even think the character was officially named but he saw him looked at his IMDb and then brought him into audition for Superman cuz he was like, “Oh, that could be Superman.” which a lot of people were like, “Wow, that’s crazy.” Happens a lot more than you’d think. And I think it kind of goes to show that even if you’re doing something really small or seemingly small to put your best foot forward because you don’t know who’s watching. It could literally be anybody. I mean, the reason I booked Penny and Stalking is because the casting director was someone who directed me in Singles Inferno on that like the dub of a Korean dating show. And I was cast later on because we like that’s how we met each other because he knew who I was from doing that. It’s because I said yes to doing that. Um, and that’s just one example of many. Uh, I have met most of the people who are in charge of my income and the art that I’m allowed to make through the smallest, most menial sounding roles. And uh, truly, you just never know who’s watching in anything you do. I think that goes beyond voice acting, you know. I think you should just always try to do your best cuz it’s more fun that way. I mean, just going off this channel, working out recently has been a lot more fun for me because I’ve actually been putting a lot more effort into getting stronger, into doing better. Well, I when I go to the gym, I’m so motivated to hit a PR or to get one more rep. Uh, I just I want to absolutely fry the muscle that I’m working on. Uh, and I’m I’m seeing results and it feels good. Like it feels good to be intentional. Same thing with voice acting. Sometimes you get a really small role that’s like additional voices, right? Um, like in the Simpsons, I had a really, really tiny role, but when I was there, I came in with the mentality of like, let’s make this tiny, minuscule role the best work I’ve ever done. And uh, it made it way more fun to get that involved. another like with dubs as well. I see a lot of criticism online and a lot of um you know like a lot of people aren’t fond of dubs which valid there’s a lot of valid reasons for that but I come into the booth with a mentality of I’m going to do everything that I can in my power to make dos as good as they can be. And I think that mentality is has carried me all like it’s it’s given me everything. All the opportunities I have now. Sorry, I’m a little distracted because driving in LA is crazy. It’s actually insane. I I do see a car crash every single day. No hint of exaggeration. Literally every single day I see a car crash on the way to work because I’m usually leaving at around 9. No, I get to work at 9:00 a.m. So rush hour is just it’s bonkers. It’s absolutely crazy. But there’s that. And then I talked about this a little bit in the last video, but the actor for Lex Luthther in Superman as well uh auditioned for Superman and during his callback or I guess screen test or something, they were like, “Oh, you’re not Superman in this. You are Lex Luthther.” And I was talking about this last time, so it’s very validating. Uh my my last video I was talking about how I auditioned for the hero, like the lead recently and I got cast as the villain and that was one of my favorite roles I’ve ever done in my life. So that was really cool. I uh it’s it’s just cool to see that discourse almost immediately after talking about it because it is so important. Um everything you do has a ripple effect. Um, and I think it’s important to be as intentional and present as possible. I did a little AMA for voice acting on stream today because I got so many there were maybe um I know for a fact more than 300 message requests uh asking for like how do you get into voice acting? Um, etc., etc. And I was like, okay, I’m just going to settle the score once and for all. But I really couldn’t fit everything into an AMA because I’m still learning myself. The last video I recorded on this channel was like me going to a call back and how anxious I was for that. Like I was shaking and you could you could hear it in my voice. I was like so visibly nervous going to that. But I learned a lot by doing that. I still don’t know if I booked the role. Apparently, I know they picked somebody, but they haven’t told anyone who they picked, including the person they picked. So, I could still get it. I don’t know. But I suspect that even if I don’t get it, they’re going to put me as somebody else based on that audition. So, another lesson learned. Anyway, today we’re heading back. I am very excited. I want to see if I can push 35 lbs for 10 reps just once. I think I did 35 lbs for eight reps last time I worked back. So, I want to see if I can push the threshold a little bit. I have not eaten many carbs today, which kind of an L. I’ve been really into no carb tortillas lately. I ate a lot of those, but obviously they don’t have much carbs, hence the name. I need to do a grocery shopping video and just show you what I’ve been eating to try to get chunkier. Um, well, I guess I’ve been eating pretty clean despite that. I’m a big My body responds really well to like low carb dieting to the point where I feel like I’m getting bigger. And I know this is impossible, but I feel like it looks like I’m getting bigger and leaner at the same time when I do lower carb diets. I don’t really know why that is. I don’t have any factual, you know, but I feel like I do look and feel better when I do that. So, that’s what I stick to. But I’ve been eating like lots of ground turkey, lots of ground beef, lots of cheese, and low carb tortillas and oatmeal. Uh my friend was sponsored by a protein brand, and she gave me like bucket loads of protein, so I’ve been taking that, some supplements, creatine, and just like vitamins and stuff. I think diet is maybe the most difficult part of getting into the gym because it really is just like you can be in the gym and you can be 100% and you can push boundaries and you can set records and do all this stuff, but if you’re diet isn’t on point, then a lot of it just doesn’t, you know, it just kind of gets flushed, which a lot of the gym is just in the this road is so bumpy. My goodness, camera’s shaking like it’s an earthquake. I love LA. But yes, it is. Um, it’s it’s a lot. I mean, if your sleep isn’t on point, if your diet’s not on point, then a lot of like your workout is just kind of moot. Well, not completely. It’s not It’s not, you know, but it’s so important to get like I know it’s like a tired thing like get your sleep. uh make sure you’re eating right. But it’s it’s so true. Like it’s kind of cliche for a reason. And it’s also like setting yourself up for the next workout. You cannot work out as hard unless you’ve had a good night’s sleep and you’ve had um a good meal. And in the kind of gym community, like broader like workout, you know, sphere, it’s kind of glorified to not have a good night’s sleep. It’s kind It’s a weird like flex. Like you know those kids in school who were like, I don’t think it’s cold outside and they’re wearing shorts and it’s absolutely freezing. That’s kind of like how people talk about sleep. like I’m supposed to clap and and be in absolute awe of somebody who doesn’t sleep uh you know at least 6 hours a night but you do need it. I genuinely think if you’re not getting 8 hours you’re not recovering properly. I don’t I don’t care if you think you’re built different. But yeah, today we’re going to hit back. That’s my little babble. That’s me. That’s my That’s my ramble. I’m gonna see if I can even get into this gym. It’s not uh completely [Music] We’re not 100% sure we’re going to get in today. This is my friend’s private gym and there is a security guard. And if he’s not on standby, then I don’t always know if I can get in or not. So, Okay, I did one set with 45 lbs, which I couldn’t do before. It was only for eight reps, but I said I wanted to do 45 for 10 reps. So, now that maybe we can count that as a warm-up and then I can hit that. But I don’t want to be sloppy because I really, really, really, really want a strong back. Like, I want my back to be like the strongest muscle in my body. So, now that I’ve had ample time to recover, I’m going to try to get those for 10. Let’s see. Got something in my pocket. All right. Let’s see. This bar is pretty nice. Nice and grippy. So, let’s see what I can do. Okay. Not the cleanest final rep, but my grip was a little weird. I find that angle slightly annoying. It’s a little bit of cope, but at least we came close. That really did push me to my limit on that one. So, I think we’ll drop down to maybe like 25s. I don’t know. It’s 25 to uh dropping like 20 lbs. Well, I think that sounds about right. I think if I try to do 35s, I’m just going to hit around the same rep range. And I what I really should be trying is to I mean hit around the 12 to 15 rep range. I think would get me the results I want, which is size. So, I think I should try that. Give that a go. Oh man, there’s just something about my back. It just won’t I mean, if you could see the first shot when I was doing it without a shirt on cuz I really wanted to see if my lats were being engaged cuz when you do workouts shirtless or whatever, when you can see the muscle, it really does help you see what you’re engaging, like what you’re actually working. And my back is just very narrow kind of. It’s not very thick. I don’t really know uh why that is. Maybe I thought my I actually thought my genetics were the best in my back cuz when I grew up swimming, that’s where um I did butterfly and that’s like all back. Well, not all back, but uses a lot more of your back than other things. And I think over time I’ve sort of uh gotten so used to having good back genetics that I’ve been kind of fumbling my back. Um because I just was like, “Oh, I barely need to put in put in any work. It already is naturally big. So now I need to make up for some lost time.” That is tough. I’m going to go for a more narrow grip, I think, on these. Um, might rest for just like 10 more seconds. I think a more narrow grip would be nice, though. Try to switch it up a little. And narrow grip is also easier in my experience. could be wrong, but I know like um when you’re doing muscle-ups, you get up by having a narrower grip. It’s very difficult or impossible to do that on a wide grip. Feel like with narrow, I can kind of I don’t know, just seems like I have better leverage. There’s also hair in my mouth. Yuck. Okay, man. a lot stronger than last time I did this, which is really encouraging. Honestly, I was not able to move 25 lbs like that where I’ve been a little more explosive. Like that last one I was really feeling at the bottom. I could really pump it up, which is good. And that I feel like is going to help me thicken my back a good amount. But it’s exciting. I mean, if you go back and watch my I believe it was my last video, pretty sure it was. You can see that like I was struggling a lot more with that weight. So, I might try another bit uh bout of the 25s. Might also be worth it to just drop down to 10 and just try to get a 15. Get 15 reps. That might actually be good because I haven’t been really hitting too many high reps. I can’t remember. I don’t even think I was doing many 15 rep sets unweighted. So maybe I’ll hit that as well. Shove the 25. Might go back to the 25 again in a bit. in the comments though. For some reason, I couldn’t find much on this, but if you could let me know, am I still getting a good lat workout if my grip is narrower? I don’t think it matters too much. I’m going to grab some water really fast. You’ll still hear me, though. I just I promise I’m not peeing. I’m just grabbing water. I need to remember to stay hydrated because there’s so many uh because I take creatine. Um it reallocates a lot of the water to your muscles and I need to drink as much water as I can to stay hydrated. Gets to the point where if you’re not hydrating, like I’m also on a medication that dehydrates me. Gets to the point where my lips start getting chapped, which is pretty crazy. So, you need to stay on top of that. Hydration is very important. But 12 reps with 25 lbs after doing a set of 10 with 45 and a set of eight with 45 while dehydrated. Not too shabby. I’m proud of myself. Okay, almost ready for the set of 10. Gosh, it it is nice seeing results though. And I will say I will say one of the biggest thing if it helps encourage you, I do think you can see results pretty fast if you’re eating. I’ve been eating a lot and I’ve been trying to focus on eating as much protein as possible, which shout out to my friend Sofh Zooies because she gave me a lot of protein supplements. So, if I’m uh running out of um like, you know, it’s like 1:00 a.m. and I haven’t eaten everything in a day or I haven’t hit my macros, it’s easy to do that. How’s it going? Hey, how’s it going? Good. I can just move this. I’m just filming for him. Okay. There was uh I didn’t want to be disrespectful, so I told them I could move this. But it just seems like couple of dudes having a glass of wine enjoying the it. The view is beautiful. It’s really nice. Like this this gym is really cool. It’s like a rooftop gym in LA. It’s also weird though because when the wind comes, it starts shaking and it makes a really creepy noise. So when I’m alone at night, it feels like a haunted house. Feel like I’m in like Dracula’s castle or something. Okay, here we go. I don’t think they knew what I meant when I said I was just filming for them. They’re like, “Cool. You have fun with that, buddy.” Okay, let’s try to get 15. 13. That is tough, man. I even tried to switch up like my back position on that last one. So, I imagine my sneaking suspicion was that if I did another set with the 25s, I wouldn’t be able to have enough gas to get it out. So, I was correct. And I don’t know, I might move on to just some unweighted ones. Um, that was four sets though, right? So I went 45 8 45 10 25 12 then 10 for 13. Um I think that’s a good end. I mean the four set rule is pretty universal, right? Where you should just do four sets of a movement. But I’m a little bit limited here in what I can actually do for back. What I would really love is somewhere I can row, but I don’t think there’s anywhere I can do that. Um, this might be a row machine. Or maybe this this might actually have a rowing function. Let’s see. Uh, shoulder press, lat pull down, toe raise. I don’t think there’s there’s an upright row, but so what I’m going to have to do is use the Smith machine for bent over barbell rows cuz I think that’s the move. Might do some lat pull downs though. Really, really, really want to fry my latisimus dorsy. So, I’ll try that. All right, I’m going in for one more set of pull-ups. Let’s just see after getting kind of gassed how many I can do unweighted with wide grip. I think I’m gonna fry out pretty fast. We’ll see. Okay. about 15. That’s all I wanted. I just wanted to see if I could do 15. Oh goodness. We’re going to move on to bend over barbell rows. Maybe my least favorite exercise. Uh the Smith machine is just it’s just I have a lovehate relationship with it. The the bar is always really thick compared to barbell. And the Smith machine has a fixed range of motion which feels a little clunky to me sometimes, but I think I’ll learn to love it. You can just do so much on it. It’s safe. I actually don’t know if you can see the bottom. You can. Okay. So, bent over barbell rows pretty much to my knowledge engage the entire back. Sorry, someone just walked in. Okay, too socially awkward to keep talking when someone’s walking in. But you got to keep your back straight. I don’t have the best form in the world, but keep a more narrow grip. Pull up, elbows back, and you should really feel it in a lot of places, actually. Now, the problem with this Smith machine is this. I wish it went down a little lower. I feel like I’m not getting the full range of motion on this. I would ideally like to be around here and pull that up, but I can only go to here. So, that does feel a little bit awkward. I actually don’t know why this doesn’t go down lower. It is weird. Why is that? Can I change that? I don’t think so. But anyway, let’s go in for a set of god knows. Let’s try to get 10, but I don’t know. [Music] Oh, that’s awkward. This is awkward as hell. Okay, super awkward. This Smith machine doesn’t go very low for God knows why, but I think I can work around it. I do wish I had a better facility because besides pull-ups and lab pull downs, there’s really not much here for me. Um, I could try doing the, um, got, you know, single arm rows where you’re like, you bend over on the bench and you pull it back. But for some reason, those sent they send a shock up my spine from a diving accident I had way back when, sometimes if I move my spine a certain way, I get a electric shock react. It’s super weird. It’s only on one side. I think it’s my left side. So, those kind of suck. But I’m thinking I can get these to work. I need to keep my toes way below the bar because the range of motion of a Smith machine is diagonal. It’s not straight up and down. So, I’m actually pulling from away towards my body. So, when I start too far away, I find myself leaning forward too much. Okay, let’s do more of these. But I can’t re I can’t recommend bent over barbell rows enough because they really do hit the entire back. They are a crazy workout if you’re comfortable doing them. I’d prefer them on a machine that’s like dedicated, but don’t have that option in this gym. So, I do feel But though, okay, might even add a little weight just to be crazy. Might add 10 lbs, which would put me at I don’t know the base weight of a Smith machine. I believe it is heavier than 45 lbs, though. So, at least I’m pretty sure. Let’s see. 10. Okay. So, that’s just the plates alone are Oh my god. Math, John. Really? 45 + 45 is 90. That’s 110. It’s I I flunked out of school. I can’t do this. Okay. So, it’s 110 plus whatever the bar is, which I believe is more than 45. So, we’re inching our way towards 200 lb for sets of 10, which is quite good. I just I wish I knew how much this weighed normally. Of course, I think a Smith machine might be cheating when talking about like pound for pound because you don’t have to stabilize it. But anyway, trying for 10. You know what? Do I want to I want to take off my shoes. I just These are hiking shoes. They’re super comfortable. I usually walk after the gym, so I wear them, but I feel like I can’t get it good. I feel like I’m not grounded. I feel like I’m I get very floaty. Okay, put these down. Oh, it’s so annoying. The bar keeps it’s so like it keeps rotating because the way it works is you flip it this way when you’re done, but it’s so loose. So, but it is I mean I do feel it. So, can’t complain too much. I might do a tricep workout after this as well, but I might not. I don’t know. Triceps is a really, really weak point for me, and I’ve been really trying to hit them like very hard, so I might actually hit them tomorrow off camera when I can just fully lock in and focus. Um, tomorrow I’m doing legs, legs, and tricep extensions. triceps. The the key with triceps I’ve learned is like you just you always have a little bit more than you think you do. The main workout I like to do is I grabbed these. This is the I was doing rope pull downs forever and I saw this absolutely jacked guy at my gym use this instead. And obviously you keep your elbows in, you pull down. This just got such a better stretch for me. And I just had to put everything into pull downs basically because I used to just do them until I was like, “Ooh, that’s good.” And then now I’ve just been hitting my absolute the absolute failure or what I feel like I perceive as failure. And then I’ve been telling myself to do two more reps. And then after those two more reps, I just think, okay, just one more rep. And to not think about other tricep workouts you’re going to do, not skull crushers or anything, but really focus on the pull downs. And you can really gas them. You can gas them to the point where every other tricep workout you do is going to be super low weight because you will barely be able to do anything after that, which means you got a good workout. So, I highly recommend trying that. I think it’s like a V bar. Those have helped a lot. But that’s just my that’s me making up for not filming triceps because I think triceps and back and triceps and back have been my biggest like breakthrough things recently where I’ve been getting a lot stronger a lot faster. Let’s go in for another set of these. Okay. That’s eight. Oh man. Taking off the tens now. Let’s see if I can squeeze out 10 more of these ones. Oh man, these make me so sweaty. My typical back workout is uh seated cable rows, weighted weighted uh pull-ups, lat pull downs, narrow grip. Like instead of going way out here, I’ve been pulling just straight down. That’s been great. Actually, I’m going to do a few of those here as well. And then I usually just burn myself out doing unweighted pull-ups. And when I can’t do a single pull-up is when I know the back workout is complete. So, I’ll probably do that today. At the very end, I might do a thing called rest pause. I believe that’s what it’s called. where you do like you do your reps, you wait exactly 30 seconds, you do your reps again, 30 seconds reps, and that usually fries me because it gets to a point where after 30 seconds, I literally can’t do anymore. And that’s how I know I’m done. So really, my back workout is exactly the same here, except I’m using this, which I kind of hate cuz I don’t like the Smith machine. But it is good to mix it up a little bit because I have to if I have to force myself to do bend over rows, it’s going to be on camera for accountability because I won’t do it otherwise. That’s been a big part of me doing these vlogs is like I wasn’t even going to work out today genuinely. But I saw that it said I posted a vlog four days ago and I said I would do them every 3 or 4 days and I felt guilty. So here I am. I got a lot though. I got auditions when I get home. Big projects. I did one right before filming. I got like three or four more. And then I have to edit this. And then I have to do my Korean homework because I have Korean school tomorrow. I’ve been taking Korean language classes. Huh? I like that. I talk like a baby still. Okay. I got distracted cuz the two guys outside came back in and there trying not to laugh cuz they heard me speaking um kindergarten level Korean, but whatever. Kill the part of you that cringes. I think they were drunk anyway. They won’t remember this. Okay. Another thing I’ve been trying to do, which I encourage everyone to do, is cardio, where off camerara I usually walk to the gym. But um so that’s usually my cardio is walking to and fro, but I’ve also been doing if I just drive and I don’t want to walk at night because sometimes it’s sketchy, I will do stair master for just 15 minutes at the end of a workout. But someone told me this where like I used to think okay I don’t have much time for cardio just have like 15 minutes so what’s the point but 15 minutes of cardio adds up to where by the end of the month how many hours of cardio is that you know like 15 minutes is more than nothing. And you’d be surprised with how sedentary we are unless you have a job that isn’t like that. Like you’re a waiter or like you work in construction or, you know, something. A lot of us have pretty sedentary schedules. So even walking, well, I’ll be honest, if you’re walking, I’d walk more than 15 minutes, but stairmaster, like some pretty tough stair master for 15 minutes goes a long way after a while. Um, it’s just really good for you. Cardio is just really good. There’s a lot of good reasons to do cardio. Even if you’re trying to bulk up or gain weight, if you do 15 minutes of stair master or you walk a lot, you’re going to be hungrier. So, you’re probably going to be more hungry and eat more than the calories you lost. Um, or conversely, if you don’t want to be gassed, like you don’t want to be super out of breath at the end of a hard set, cardio helps you with that. And then that immediately translates into, you know, you’re you’re doing better sets, more muscle. So, it’s it’s just good. Also, just take care of yourself, like your heart and everything. Like I mean is it not the leading cause of death? I pretty sure it is. Heart problems, heart issues. Like you really need to take care of yourself. There’s a plethora of things that happen if you don’t get your steps in, you know, and it really can just be walking. So I encourage everyone to do it. Don’t get too lost in the sauce. It’s you can be extremely strong and not fit at all. It’s It would be nice to be both. It’s also like sweating is good for you mentally, too. I I have days where I can’t sleep unless I do cardio or I’m really stressed and then I do 15 minutes of stair master listening to like like break core or something. It’ll fix you. It’s very good for you. Okay, let’s do this. Okay. Oh, I’m starting to feel like a turtle after some pretty hard sets. Sometimes you see you feel like your muscles get really tight on the sides. You feel like a turtle. Ouch. Okay, you know what? Before anyone points it out as well, I actually walk on my toes. I always have walked on my toes ever since I was a baby. Like my first steps were on my toes and I’ve actively tried to stop it for a long time. I used to be really self-conscious about it. Even now I’m compensating but not. But over time, I just kind of stopped caring. It’s uh some people think it’s autism, which wouldn’t necessarily surprise me, but by some people I mean chronically online people, but I uh something I’ve always had. I’ve met quite a few people who do the same thing. So, I don’t really know. The good trade-off, though, is that it keeps my calves in shape. So, that’s good. Also, I used to do boxing, and everybody always tells you to get up on your toes. They never had to tell me to do that. That came for free. I think I’m going to do some pull downs now. And then I’m going to do the rest pause pull-ups thing. and see if I can just absolutely fry myself. I’m actually going to keep it a stack. I don’t think me doing lat pull downs is going to be that interesting to watch. I don’t think it’s going to be any different the other ones. Um, not much anyway. So, I’m just not going to film that part, but I’ll see you guys soon. I just didn’t want the I don’t want the vlog to go on for too much longer cuz I’m already I’m already going to have to I’m I’ll be honest. I’m just lazy. I don’t want to export that much footage. it just takes too long and then I have to study and do auditions and so I will see you guys on the next one. Uh keep an eye out on Instagram because I’ll be able to announce my characters in panty and stocking which will be really cool and then hopefully some other stuff soon too. So I’ll see you guys later. Peace.

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