How To Get Lean For Your Summer Holiday - #015

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi there. This week, I'm sitting down with Yusef to talk about how to get lean for your summer holiday. So as almost everybody will do, you've left it too late until you're going to go away on holiday to some hot summer destination. You've realized you're going to be in swimwear around a pool or on a beach, and you're not quite as lean as you want it to be. Now, all of us who've been training for a little while have made the same mistakes over and over and over again. You look okay for one day when you're out there, and then you turn into Mr. Blobby as soon as you touch a carb. What we want to try and do today is give you a protocol that you can follow over a short-ish period of time to get you in good condition so that you look good in your swimwear around the pool and try and mitigate the effects of a Corona on all of your hard-won gains. So here we go. Me and Yusef on how to get lean for your summer holiday. I can't remember, we were doing one once, and it came in at the end. And you were like, no. Yeah, and then I was like, no, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. So, hi. Hi, everybody. Hello. You may notice that there is about 105 kilos of missing Aryan perfection over the far side, just there. And if you're just listening, you will notice that there is not the sound of a massive arse moving around.

**Yusef** (1:44)
Just squeaking all over the leather sofa.

**Chris Williamson** (1:46)
That is because Johnny is away on holiday. So it's just me and Yusef today. And we are going to be talking about how to get lean for your summer holidays.

**Yusef** (1:56)
This is actually take two.

**Chris Williamson** (1:57)
This is technically take two. We had a technical problem, but this time it's in pure gold, pure how to get shredded for summer gold. So if this is not as good, then it's not our fault. We already gave up our best. So how to get lean for your summer holidays. I did a little Instagram post about this yesterday and had an awful lot of messages coming back, not least of all because it's due and a lot of people will have realised, shit, I'm going away on holiday within the next eight weeks and I'm maybe not as lean or as muscular as I want to be. I'm going to have to take my top off on the beach or I'm going to wear a bikini or whatever it might be. The point that I think struck a chord with a lot of people was what I said about the typical approach for getting lean for holidays. And if you have a look online, a lot of the resources that you will find about how to get lean will focus on potentially fitness competitions or long-term slow deficit fat loss approaches. The crucial difference between stepping on stage and going on holiday to a B-Throw Marbella is that when you step on stage, all that you're going to do is flex and tense.
When you go out to Marbella or a B-Throw, you're going to be drinking Corona and having baguette all day, every day.

**Yusef** (3:21)
Baguette.

**Chris Williamson** (3:21)
Baguette.

**Yusef** (3:23)
As in?

**Chris Williamson** (3:23)
One baguette. One huge fuck-off baguette. You know taking a baguette out with you on holiday. Just a long baguette.

**Yusef** (3:31)
I think this is where the alcohol reference goes. Is there some kind of drink called?

**Chris Williamson** (3:35)
Baguette, no.

**Yusef** (3:36)
No. You do mean baguette.

**Chris Williamson** (3:38)
Baguette.

**Yusef** (3:39)
La baguette.

**Chris Williamson** (3:40)
La baguette, yeah.

**Yusef** (3:41)
Is it le baguette? I don't know.

**Chris Williamson** (3:43)
I'm not sure. It's something. You're going to have a lot of carbs. What happens is people will drill their diet into the ground, reduce, drop carbs out completely. Everyone's got that ex bodybuilder, current bodybuilder friend in the gym. Yeah, mate. Well, what you need to do, yeah, is-

**Yusef** (4:01)
Two scoops, strawberry.

**Chris Williamson** (4:02)
Yeah.
And then fish and a rice kick at midday. And it's just like, all that you're doing is creating an environment in which your body will absorb Corona like a fucking sponge. And so many times I went away on a holiday, I drilled myself into the ground on like a 1500 calorie per day allowance, got out on holiday, looked peeled to bits for one day. The next morning looked even better because I was dehydrated to hell. And then as soon as I had that first breakfast in the hotel, I just balloon out. There's no shape left. And any size that I did have eight weeks ago has been lost due to this catastrophic deficit that I'm in. So what I wanted to do was try and put together a little bit of a structure and some principles that you can take away if you've got between four and ten weeks, something like that until your holiday. So are we right in saying that if you've got less than four weeks until you go on holiday, it's going to be very difficult to make a profound change?