Mike Israetel

But the way the science of resistance training works is for almost all of the health benefits and the longevity benefits and the quality of life benefits, the amount of time you need to be training per week is measured in the one to three hour range with three being like, you're really full sending it one to three hours per week.

If you went on chat GPT and did like a time use question, I mean like, can you list all of the things that typical American does for X number hours a week? Read down the list, top 100 time use cases. You may find that one to three hours a week is somewhere in like the 50 or 60 rank and There's so many things people do that are way more than that.

If you went on chat GPT and did like a time use question, I mean like, can you list all of the things that typical American does for X number hours a week? Read down the list, top 100 time use cases. You may find that one to three hours a week is somewhere in like the 50 or 60 rank and There's so many things people do that are way more than that.

Social media consumption, television watching, and the list goes on. There are dozens of things you do that take way more time. And so if you really fully invest yourself, like I'm relatively fully invested into getting as jacked as possible, it's going to take some time. It could take eight hours a week, which is still like, well, it's not forever.

Social media consumption, television watching, and the list goes on. There are dozens of things you do that take way more time. And so if you really fully invest yourself, like I'm relatively fully invested into getting as jacked as possible, it's going to take some time. It could take eight hours a week, which is still like, well, it's not forever.

People will jog for 40 minutes every morning and think nothing of it. And then when you present to them the idea of resistance training, they're like, well, now that's going to take some time. Well, yes, actually it does not take nearly as much time because the intensity of the effort is so grotesquely high and the recovery demands are so high that you have to be very pulsatile with it.

People will jog for 40 minutes every morning and think nothing of it. And then when you present to them the idea of resistance training, they're like, well, now that's going to take some time. Well, yes, actually it does not take nearly as much time because the intensity of the effort is so grotesquely high and the recovery demands are so high that you have to be very pulsatile with it.

It's not even something you have to do every day. As a matter of fact, people get incredible benefits. Probably the biggest return on investment the average person can make is to train for roughly half an hour, two times a week, Monday and Thursday. If you do it properly, it can comport an unbelievable amount of benefits just across the board.

It's not even something you have to do every day. As a matter of fact, people get incredible benefits. Probably the biggest return on investment the average person can make is to train for roughly half an hour, two times a week, Monday and Thursday. If you do it properly, it can comport an unbelievable amount of benefits just across the board.

And so for most people, the consideration that they can begin to do this excessively, it's just not something realistic until and unless they're really into it like a huge hobby. If you are watching Formula One for 30 minutes a day every other day on your phone, you're realistic considerations of this is taking up too much of your time kind of out the window.

And so for most people, the consideration that they can begin to do this excessively, it's just not something realistic until and unless they're really into it like a huge hobby. If you are watching Formula One for 30 minutes a day every other day on your phone, you're realistic considerations of this is taking up too much of your time kind of out the window.

Now, if you start canceling podcast guests because you're following the circuit around the world and staying in five-star hotels and booking the hyper rich guy suite for all the races, someone could say, well, you're really into this. You're like, no nonsense. It's only costing me 3 million a year.

Now, if you start canceling podcast guests because you're following the circuit around the world and staying in five-star hotels and booking the hyper rich guy suite for all the races, someone could say, well, you're really into this. You're like, no nonsense. It's only costing me 3 million a year.

So then yes, but it's obvious when you're going to be so involved, you don't just walk into that sort of thing.

So then yes, but it's obvious when you're going to be so involved, you don't just walk into that sort of thing.

I like to use the term resistance training. It's the general term for going into the gym and applying things to your muscles.

I like to use the term resistance training. It's the general term for going into the gym and applying things to your muscles.

Yes. So you can get some benefits from very submaximal efforts. But resistance training is based on applying high forces and high levels of fatigue as its primary modality of how it makes you better. And so it's kind of when you get into that world, that's what's going to happen. If you're trying to be a special operator, eventually a Navy SEAL type of person, the sound of gunfire freaks you out.

Yes. So you can get some benefits from very submaximal efforts. But resistance training is based on applying high forces and high levels of fatigue as its primary modality of how it makes you better. And so it's kind of when you get into that world, that's what's going to happen. If you're trying to be a special operator, eventually a Navy SEAL type of person, the sound of gunfire freaks you out.

You're kind of in the wrong place. We get almost all the benefits from pushing either very heavy loads or lighter loads, but very close to muscular failure, which people have described as unpleasant. A burn in the muscle, a lot of pain, the weights slow down, so it takes a lot of psychological effort to keep going.