Mike Israetel
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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Wenn ihr schon mehr gejagt habt, wenn ihr größere Muskeln habt, kommen sie zurück zu ihrer alten Größe. Wenn es dauerte, wenn ihr für acht Monate geübt habt, habt ihr einen größeren Bicep und habt für drei Monate geübt. Und es sieht ungefähr so aus, als wenn ihr begonnen hättet. Wenn du wirklich vorsichtig bist, wird es ein bisschen größer, aber wirklich ist es nur zurück zu square one.
Die meisten Leute denken, oh mein Gott. Noch acht Monate, um wieder da zu sein, wo ich angefangen habe. Vergiss das Gym. Die Wahrheit ist, dass nach ungefähr einem Monat, vielleicht so wenig wie drei Wochen, du die gleiche Größe Biceps hast, die du in deinem Peak hattest.
Weil der Grad, zu dem dein Tissue wächst, wenn es schon eine bestimmte Größe war, besonders wenn es deutlich größer war als normal, und du hattest das für ein paar Monate und ein paar Jahre, es kommt zurück. in einer Art und Weise, die so schnell ist, wenn du es selbst erfährst, ist es so, dass du nicht glaubst, dass es dir passiert.
Oh yeah, all the time. Retraining studies, detraining, retraining. Oh yeah, they've done studies where they purposefully lift for a while and they stop lifting for a long time and they see how long it takes to get back.
There's one study I'm familiar with offhand that there's a group of people that trained consistently for multiple weeks and there's another group of people that trained consistently for a few weeks and then took two weeks completely off in the middle and then just started retraining again for a few weeks later. Both groups had identically sized differences in muscle at the end of the study.
And so we were like, okay, so that group that trained consistently never took two weeks off. Could we say that they purposefully dunked two weeks of their time away for nothing? Uh-huh. Yeah, your body goes right back into regaining old lost muscle so rapidly that this is such great news. Because look, let's say you lifted consistently most of the year. Holiday season comes up, winter holidays.
You're not going to the gym as much, maybe not at all. Three weeks later of no gym, you look at yourself, you look a little smaller, kind of deflated, and you're like, oh my God, I'm going to have to restart all this from scratch. Nope. Two weeks later, you're in the best shape of your life again.
If you left the gym for six months, one or two months later, you're in the best shape of your life again. That's how rapidly it comes back. So it's really good news for anyone who hasn't been in the gym and is feeling guilty about it. Go back, get consistent again. You're just going to skyrocket.
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth · 2595: Mike Israetel Unplugged (Explicit Content) · 12 May 2025
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Thanks for having me, guys. Sorry I couldn't make it in person.
Great question. It's actually difficult to understate muscle. sorry, it's difficult to overstate the effect of muscle memory. It is an incredibly powerful effect. So if you have trained, especially the longer you've trained, the more of a thing this is.
But if you've trained for years, especially, and you've gotten to a certain level of muscularity, and you've been at that level for a while, when you don't train for however long and you lose however much muscle, what ends up happening is when you got much bigger and you increase the size of all of your muscle cells.
But if you get much bigger than a moderate amount, you end up during the course of your gain in size, incorporating satellite cells into your muscle cells. These satellite cells are basically just cell nuclei that kind of like come into the regular cell and they help grow muscle, maintain muscle and control all the functions of a muscle cell. It's kind of like,
If New York City, if Manhattan only had one fire department and one police station and one hospital for all five boroughs, it would be ridiculous and all the boroughs would burn down and everyone would die and the police would never get there because it's just one nucleus for a huge area. Your cells work in much the same way.
And so just like if a town or a city grows, it gets multiple precincts and multiple hospitals and multiple fire departments. As your muscle cells grow, the satellite cells incorporate into them and give them these multiple nuclei. The thing is, once you have a lot of nuclei in a muscle cell, once that cell shrinks down, the nuclei don't delete out. They just stay there.
And so when you start training again, you have multiples the power to manufacture muscle protein because the nucleus is what does a huge degree of the manufacturing and all the ultra structures around it. And so now you essentially have the equivalent of like ridiculous genetics when you're coming back. And so when you're coming back to regain that muscle, It happens unbelievably quickly.
And if you've ever experienced this yourself, you're like kind of in awe. You're like, what the hell? So I honestly anticipate that worst case scenario, after about six weeks of training again from taking six weeks off, I expect to be about as muscular as I've ever been. And it's probably pessimistic because probably after about four weeks, I should be very close to my best ever.
That's how fast it comes back. And it's such good news for people that have to take time off because I think there is this very understandable misunderstanding that many people have, which is they think, okay, I train and I'm big because I train. And I've been training for 10 years and I've gotten quite jacked.
And if I detrain for, let's say, a year, then I lose kind of a lot of muscle, which is like very true. And then however much muscle I lose, let's say I was pretty jacked, 200 pounds, pretty lean. And after a year of not training, whatever, motorcycle accident, whatever, I'm 170. What they do is they look back to when they were first 170 and Fucking six years ago. And they go, oh, my God.
Oh, my God. It took me five years to get from 170 to 200. It's going to take me five years again to put this muscle back on. But it really takes like five months. And so that is incredibly good news for anyone that's detrained. And it's news that's used in a really good way. Here's a good way to use this news.
Don't you dare get upset or down on yourself or disappointed when you have to have a layoff of training because it will come back so goddamn fast. And also because you're not pounding your joints into oblivion all the time and you're not pushing yourself through crazy hard workouts, both your joints and your mental aspects are going to be super, super refreshed.
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