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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I'm trying to be lazy and scroll on Instagram between sets. But if I wanted to get the maximum results for the minimum amount of time, we're working all the time. And over time, you start with one or two paired sets like that. You get up to three or four paired sets like that on five to eight exercises per session. Holy crap.
That is a lot of work and it will train your entire body in one session and you will require one to three days of rest afterwards. Guess what? You rest for three days, you come back, you rest for three days, you come back. There's two workouts in a week. Each one takes about half an hour. And if you ever want the workouts to take less time, work faster and rest less.
And a lot of people want to hear like the hack for how to get really awesome results with very little time spent in the gym. But they don't want to hear how to get the hack actually going because they're like, whoa, hold on, hold on. What's going to hurt? Like, yeah, it's going to hurt. It's going to be miserable.
Unless you accept the fact that, you know, all the benefits of endorphins and everything like that. It's kind of like, you know, how do you become a millionaire? You're very, very good at something. You have very, very good people skills and you grind for years at starting your empire. Like, ah, man, I wanted like a win a lottery ticket or something. I didn't want all this.
Like everyone knows that's how you become a millionaire. I don't want that. So yeah, you can thumbnail and title this how you like, but it's cool to say, yeah, listen, one hour a week and you can have amazing benefits of health, quality of life.
But I'm here to tell you real talk because at RP, that company that I represent, we just have a policy of never lying to people ever because we're doing this to honestly help people. And business-wise, if you start lying to people, it's hard to unweave the rainbow after that. This is going to be tough.
But also, there is now more and more research accumulating that doing difficult things physically is good for your mental health. There's a lot of publicity lately to cold plunges, Huberman and all that stuff. And a cold plunge, because it's so annoying, makes you more grateful for the not pain you're engaging in the rest of the day and it's really good for you. I have one better.
You do a 30-minute session of back-to-back-to-back compound free motion or dumbbell or barbell or even machine work and sweat your balls off and huff and puff. The rest of the day seems like a breeze and the endorphin kick is massive. It's like surviving a traumatic episode.
So the cold plunge has some benefits, not entirely sold that they're enormous or extant whatsoever in many cases, but this kind of resistance exercise has benefits that if we just took one by one time to talk about on this podcast, we could talk about nothing else and do four podcasts in a row. That kind of massive benefit.
So very tough. Very tough because if you aren't an expert or a very knowledgeable person yourself, it's very difficult to figure out who is knowledgeable and an expert, who's doing a good job. Like if you're finding a good doctor, I don't know what that means. I have no idea how to measure a good doctor versus not a good doctor.
Most doctors are equally confident in telling you what they think is going on and very differentially accurate. So it's a tough question. I would say that if you have an opportunity to chat with them and ask them a few questions, you could find out some things that'll be helpful. These are all marginal pieces of advice. There's no absolute.
I'd say the thing that comes close to the absolute of having a high guarantee that they're good at what they do is if they're certified in the Menno Henselman's PT course. Menno is an expert in our field. He knows his stuff and his trainers that he certifies have a high probability of being able to deliver to you what it is that you want out of them.
There are other fine certifications out in the world, but a lot of certifications, you're just reasonably intelligent and you studied for an hour and voila, you're certified. So the certification doesn't go very far.
It helps if your trainer has an undergraduate in kinesiology or some related field that is not by itself ensuring you that they're going to be good, but it sloughs off a lot of back end, if you know what I mean, like you're going to get rid of a lot of not great trainers.
You can almost entirely ignore what they look like because the preponderance of the reason people look like they do is genetics. The other is diet. And the other is just how long have they been doing stupid or smart things to their body, but grinding away.
So if you look at a trainer that just looks kind of like a normal person, maybe a little muscular, a little bit leaner, you'll get another trainer in the same gym that's just like got six pack on his face, just ripped. Don't be like, well, that guy seems to know what he's doing. He's ripped. He can't give you his genetics and almost the biggest contribution to why he's ripped is genetics.
And so people get hung up on this all the time. They work with preposterously underqualified trainers who just look the part. There's not like a transitive property by which you can just like give someone your results. Yeah, I wish, right? You just touch their skin and you're like, I feel it. You wake up the next day super jacked. It was that easy.
You can ask them how they integrate science into their practice. Not a guarantee because you can be evidence-based and still have all sorts of poor practices. If they go mostly on personal experience and feel, you can be assured that they're probably not the greatest trainer for you.
If they have a lot of personal experience that they use in their training, but also they're very adept at understanding the scientific literature and especially just the broad strokes basics, you're probably in better hands than not. Someone that can explain to you the reasons for why you're doing certain things and you just voice note record them. and ask them, is it okay if I record your reason?
I just kind of want to think about it at home later. Wink. And then you just copy that and feed it into Claude 3.5 or GPT-4.0 and be like, give me a steel man and a red team for this. It'll do both based on the sort of texture of its responses. There's all these LLMs are designed to be insanely agreeable and very kind. But when you're wrong, wrong, they'll be like, that's a good point.
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