Mike Israetel
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1,094 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Mike Israetel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth · 2595: Mike Israetel Unplugged (Explicit Content) · 12 May 2025
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How the fuck are you doing this? They just have different brain chemistry. And there's no reason to think that all of us can't have that brain chemistry times 10 in the future.
if you think that taking a pill to be ecstatic and happy and optimistic and hardworking is bad, I would love to hear why maybe there are some good points, but at the same time, a lot of people are going to want to take that pill. So we're, we have pills for our body coming up. That seems straightforward.
There are going to be pills for the brain coming up that deal with a lot of existential angst and all this other bullshit that might just go away after you start taking a pill. And is that really like, yeah, but you should be suffering. Like, I don't know. Should you be, maybe, maybe there's a compelling argument against that, but I,
Oh, that's like people's concept of hell from hyper capitalist abundance. Like, you know, having like, you know, known people who went to Russian prison, I'm telling you, hell's a lot worse than fucking winning a bunch of rounds of fucking models. That's just potential angst. Like, have you ever been beaten by five prison guards daily for 20 years? Like, no, I guess there's levels to this.
Well, I'm just going to go back to fucking the strippers. I'm just going to learn.
Joy is also chemically mediated. Maybe. So if you attack the right chemical pathways, you can just have joy all the time. Deep, meaningful joy, just straight up. How do I know that? Ecstasy exists. If you're on ecstasy, you love everyone you see as much as you've loved your mother. You really do feel that. Do you have kids? No, fuck no, man.
They don't let a person like me with these crazy views come.
No, you've been great, Mike. It's just a dog.
Yeah, man. Well, you guys are in the Bay area, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck no. I'm never coming out. I'm not trying to step on heroin needles covered in shit.
We're in San Jose. I like the mumbling. It's a little safer here. Don't worry. Thank you so much. Yeah, good talking to you, Mike.
Peace out.
You weren't here for F1? No. Loud noises scare me, so I would stay away from that sort of thing. I'm kidding. It sounds awesome. I've never actually been to a Formula race in real life, and my videographer and business partner on YouTube, huge Formula One fan. He has the app and everything, live streams all the races and stuff. Are you big into that sort of thing?
That's really cool. Yeah. I make a lot of race car analogies when it comes to athletics and stuff. So if I make them here, you can correct me and say, I'm using them wrong.
Where'd you grow up? Moscow, Russia before that. And I do have memories of it and all that stuff. And then the metropolitan Detroit area after that all the way until college. So a place called Oak Park, Michigan, which you can find on a map and that's about it.
Were you into grappling at the time? I had wrestled in high school and then I just wasn't very good at it. And I just absolutely was not dedicated to it for a few reasons, which are sort of boring. But I got into lifting hardcore towards the middle and end of high school. And then by the time I was in college, I was gearing up to start competing in powerlifting.
And so I actually started the Michigan Powerlifting Club. We started kind of a team and we went to meets and all that stuff. So I was a competitive power lifter in my undergraduate years.
So squat plus bench plus deadlift equals total. And the person with the biggest total for their weight class or absolute or by formula wins the whole thing.
Got a master's. In the exercise science field, going straight from undergraduate to a PhD is very rare. Usually you need a lot more preparatory work because the undergraduate curriculum typically just doesn't teach you a whole lot of applied super specialized exercise science. I learned anatomy and physiology very well.
But much more general curriculum, especially at an R01 school like Michigan, they didn't super hyper-specialize. I learned almost nothing about sports whatsoever. I must have had like two bullet points of how to resistance train in any one of my classes in Michigan. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Resistance training wasn't even the big focus there. It was...
chronic disease management, health, stuff like that, clinical application. And so right after that, I went to get my master's degree at Appalachian State University under Dr. Travis Triplett and Dr. Jeff McBride. And that was a swell time. That was a subspecialty of exercise science. It was actually strength and conditioning. So much closer to what I was super passionate about.
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