Mike Israetel

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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth · 2595: Mike Israetel Unplugged (Explicit Content) · 12 May 2025 podcast
I mean, after six weeks of not training, I'm going to basically be restarting my training career psychologically and joint wise. And that's such a good thing.
In the Eastern Bloc countries that were pretty good about formal periodization back in the day, a lot of times after a yearly cycle or especially after an Olympic cycle, many of the athletes for about one to three months after the conclusion of, let's say, the World Championships and whatever sport they were at, they literally just disappeared and did not engage in the process of sport training in any capacity.
They went on vacation – well, back in the Eastern Bloc days, you couldn't leave the country – you know, had whatever kind of leisure time you have in communism, all the kind of good stuff. And then after a few months, they would start this long process of getting in shape again.
And it was a long process simply because they didn't want to get hurt, but they could easily be back in good shape in two months. But they took their time. And then by the middle of the year, they were at regionals. They were at the equivalent of states and nationals breaking records again. They As soon as worlds were over, they would just take months off.
It's something that we in the free Western world, because we're engaged in training purely voluntarily in almost every case, it's not like none of us are getting paid to fucking do this. We do this because we love it. And because as far as I can speak for myself, a variety of psychosocial disorders about my body and so on and so forth, and a lot of rage to get out of these barbells. Fuck.
you dad you know shit like that um and then so because of that we never really take a lot of time off and because we're paranoid about it we think any time off is going to fuck us up but it really just reality is the very very opposite of that and i think that's just wonderful news
Yes, that's when he never trained ever before or used steroids during the experiment. And he managed to gain 89 pounds of muscle in three and a half days exclusively due to Nautilus equipment. Yes, yes.
It looks like a few sets per muscle group a few times a week is going to get you like a humongous fraction of gains. So like if you do three sets of work for your quads. Two times a week. And each one of those sets is pretty fucking hard, close to failure. You can do that for literally years and see continued radical improvements and just get really, really great results.
Are they going to be your best results? No, your best results would be doing 30 sets per week. But the difference between good results and best results is like maybe double. I mean, the degree to which there's a hyperbolic kind of asymptotic relationship of how much work you put into how much jackness you get is really impressive.
A little sad for those of us who want to be exotically big, because it's like, look, if you want to get 20% bigger, you have to do one and a half times the work. The fuck? That doesn't add up. You want to be twice as big. You have to do like four times the work. Like, oh, God damn it. But the opposite end of that is really good news.
But if you want to make an awesome body transformation and get incredible health, incredible strength, incredible mobility, finally get some fucking blood in your cock. And am I allowed to swear in here? Family podcast. How dare you? Um,
So if you want all those amazing benefits and you want to look like TRP dad or whatever, you really just have to do like two to four sets per muscle, two times a week, go pretty fucking hard. You're going to get incredible benefits. And that's such a big deal. I think for most people to realize, because there's this thing, which is getting very understandable is,
But people see pretty jacked people, pretty lean people, and they automatically assume that this is like a lifestyle, that this person doesn't do anything else. One of my friends, actually the COO of RP Strength, our company, He had already been working. He's been working since he was a teenager, like three jobs at the same time. He's a fucking workaholic, works all the time.
And he really got in really good shape at one point. He's done this a few times in his life, but like very noticeable, like lost a bunch of weight, gained a bunch of muscle. And he went over to a family function. And these are people, these are Azerbaijanis, right? Like Central Asian, Russian type folks and very old world culture. And they noticed he was in great shape.
And one of his uncles or whatever was like, oh, you look great. He's like, thanks. He's like, you know, I would do the same thing too, but I have a job. And Yasha's like, you think I don't have a job? Of course, he didn't say anything because it's all respect culture. Oh, yeah, you know, true. But it's like, oh, no, like, well, I can't. I get in shape.
I would need to, like, eight, you know, train eight hours a day. Another thing I get all the time is, you know, like, when I'm in my fairly jacked look, I, you know, travel a lot, talk to random people at airports. They just assume that it takes, like, hours a day. Like, you guys, I'm sure, get this question all the time. Like, how many times a week do you train? Or, like, how many hours a day?
And then they're looking for, like, I train 12 times a week. I train eight hours a day. I like training my training. I train my training as, like, a union job in the fucking 70s in Pittsburgh. Yeah. I fucking clock in. I fucking get in the iron mill. I fucking clock out. I fucking look at my family all wrong and eat the fucking Salisbury steak while looking at my wife all wrong.
He gets a fucking lifestyle. The thing is you can get a huge amount of gains doing fractions of that work. And I think a lot of people, two things, want to hear that because like, oh my God, like I didn't have these great gains and really only spend like three hours at the gym per week.
But also I think some people low key kind of subconsciously don't want to hear that because thinking that getting a better physique and getting much leaner and looking way younger is And it's going to require some effort. Thinking that it requires so much effort that you will never be able to do it is a great like cope mechanism excuse to keep in your back pocket.
Because when you look at that guy that's your age, but he's jacked and shredded and you're like, well, I have a family and I have kids. And then you see he has like triplets he's walking with, fuck.
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