Mike Israetel
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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All of those are true. It's not difficult to align your nutrition well. Eat mostly healthy foods. Some junk here and there is totally fine. Getting in enough protein. If you want to be real serious about optimizing your muscle gains, something like a gram per pound of protein per day. So if you weigh 150 pounds, 150 grams of relatively high quality protein.
If it's difficult for you to meet those goals, Amazon sells your bars already, don't they? I don't think they're on Amazon yet.
So get you a couple boxes of David bars and put them between meals. That takes care of protein. The other thing is muscle size is philosophically concordant with being bigger. I know that sounds crazy, but muscle's made of stuff. So when someone wants to be 165 pounds jacked at 150 pounds, it's curious how they think that's ever going to happen. Some people just don't eat enough.
And what I would say is the biggest problem I've seen with what I assume is your target demographic for this podcast is intermittency, lack of consistency. I've had so many clients in the professional realm, older folks, folks that are practicing doctors, lawyers, so on and so forth, tell me, hey, listen, last couple of days, every three or four hours, I've been getting in high protein meals.
I've been getting good sleep. Dope. See him a week later. You go, hey, how was last weekend? They're like, the parts I remember were fun, I think. Then I was throwing up a lot in the toilet. You realize that they're quote unquote good. It's not beneficial to moralize these things, but they're on track for a few days here and there. And then they fall completely off the wagon for days at a time.
That is a surefire way to guarantee that you don't get very good gains, is if you lack consistency. So if you want to get as jacked as possible within the realm of several months' time, seek to eat enough food to get the scale to go up about half a pound per week. So if you're training hard for 12 weeks, you should gain maybe six pounds or so. Consistent six pounds.
And if you're eating a gram per pound per day of protein spread into roughly three to four evenly spaced meals, roughly, very roughly, a lot of wiggle room there, that really is all you need to know about nutrition for how to get jacked that covers probably 90% of the variance.
So I'll tell you this, if you describe to me a scenario where you were training for 12 weeks, you gained seven pounds, almost every day you hit a gram per pound per protein, almost every day it was three or four meals. and you're like, look, I know it's my nutrition that's the problem, I'd be like, it's probably not. It's probably something else.
That great thing about what we talked about earlier with Dorian Yates and how he could do so few sets and get so many results is that 80-20 type of rule applies to almost everything else in the human body, including nutrition. So if you're getting enough protein regularly and you're getting enough calories to gain body weight, if you don't get really the muscle gains that you were expecting,
There aren't a lot of knobs and levers for us to pull that are going to get these enormous results. That's kind of the situation for nutrition. But consistency is, I cannot say enough things about. Because you ask people, hey, how's your diet? Especially if you're a personal trainer or diet coach.
There's this kind of halo effect situation where they want to be seen as a good person and diligent and worthy of your time. So, well, yeah, you know, like breakfast, I'll have egg whites. And for lunch, I'll have a chicken sandwich. And for dinner, it's usually a piece of fish. And then I have a protein shake and go to sleep. Shut up, Bob. That's one day a week, you lying asshole.
And he's like, God damn it, you got me. Okay, that was Tuesday. But Wednesday, I don't think I ate anything until we closed that one business deal and I got really drunk with their CMO. It was a great time. I think we had chicken fingers, but honestly, I can't remember. Inconsistency, especially when you're older, especially when you have lots of stress from your professional endeavors.
Inconsistency is something that professional bodybuilders cannot afford. You for sure cannot afford it. Now, if you do everything right five or six days a week and one day is kind of meh, you'll do great. But if the good days are outnumbered by the, I sure hope my trainer doesn't find out about these days, you're not doing due diligence. So that's a big, big part of the equation.
And that kind of segue, if you'd like, into a conversation of sleep and stress management, all these other things that can also be the difference between lots of gains or no gains at all.
So anabolic androgenic steroids are all derivatives of the testosterone molecule manipulated in various ways to accentuate some characteristics and de-emphasize other characteristics. They're typically taken by athletes in the competitive sphere, bodybuilders, physique athletes, and gym people who want a super physiological level of muscle mass. And
Sometimes super physiologically low levels of body fat can come with that. And so they'll take anywhere between high end testosterone replacement therapy dose to 10 or 20 times that amount per week.
for physiologic replacement is 40 milligrams twice a week or 80 milligrams a week so are you saying that there are people out there that would routinely take 800 to 1600 milligrams of testosterone in a week oh yeah sometimes that's not all testosterone it's other steroids and combination usually people take at least that replacement level of testosterone often more because testosterone does some really good things for health and general function and
tends to aromatize into estrogen quite readily, which is good because estrogen's cardioprotective, neuroprotective, increases your strength, helps your mood, tons. Sex drive, it actually increases your anabolism in the presence of androgenic steroids and testosterone. So estrogen by itself, not very anabolic.
Estrogen in the presence of testosterone is more anabolic than if you had all the testosterone in the world but were unable to aromatize to estrogen. And baseline low testosterone is often taken at somewhere between 250 milligrams a week and all the way up to a thousand milligrams a week, depending on how you're handling the side effects of that excess estrogen production at the higher levels.
And that's usually taken as cipionate? Enanthate, cipionate. Some people prefer propionate if they inject every day. Enanthate and cipionate are by far the most commonly used, seemingly. Oftentimes, people inject differentially, but once daily injections seem to provide the smoothest curve.
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