Mike Israetel

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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth · 2595: Mike Israetel Unplugged (Explicit Content) · 12 May 2025 podcast

I'm not in, I'm not in love with it. So like, for example, now the love handles are gone. I look way better, but I also like genetically just have like a bigger gut. And like, I don't know if you guys have seen, like I can do this thing where I like relax and my gut looks huge. And then I can do a real legit vacuum pose in the next second. It looks kind of wild. Like, I don't love having a gut.

I've had a gut my whole life. Am I like infatuated with that? No, I think it looks fucking awful. I think it looks objectively awful. There's no one that's like, no, actually it looks great. Like that's bullshit. So at the same time, I have like ridiculous pecs. Like my pecs are like straight up obnoxious looking. I have humongous triceps. My quads, I haven't trained in a year.

because they got outlandish and threw off the rest of my physique and to be honest they barely shrunk but the fuck okay fine so i'm just gonna like start training my legs again and full send the shit who cares so like there's parts of my body that are fucking awesome and i love and there's parts of my body that i don't love it's like a marriage you don't love everything about your wife or in some of your case fellow's husband i know y'all from california that's how you do and so just a guy you know at the bar who cares um and

you know, it's a, it's a mixed bag. So do I have demons about the shit? Yeah. But they're like, you don't like that for real demons. I'm not like waking up in the middle of the night, screaming, looking for my abs. No, you know, for my cock. Absolutely. And it's usually the nightmare that's real. Cause I can't find it.

No, no, no, no.

Yeah, that's a great question. So, uh, this past summer I had planned to do four shows. I did the first show as a tune-up show. I didn't look that great. And, um, Then right after that show, I realized that with the amount of steroids that I was taking,

and the amount of really huge degree of focus that you have to have to do prep, especially multiple shows in a row, I was going to be passing up a lot of opportunities in like the YouTube Insta famous land. And that's when I was like blowing up fucking like crazy. And I was having like all these invitations to go on these crazy ass, like diary of a CEO type of podcast, like a gazillion views.

And I'm like, well, fuck. either I continue to compete right now or I put the shit aside for now and focus on the YouTube shit. Cause like glory's dope, but like money, I, it comes around, these opportunities come around.

They may not come around after like, you know, um, man, it's, it's like, there's like movies every now and again in which like this person is like trying to become a singer songwriter and they, they go through these trials and tribulations and they finally have their crazy audition. And like, you know, typically like the, the people signing them to the record label are kind of cocksuckers.

They won't let them do it. They somehow get the audition. They blow it out of the water and the record label is like, do you want a deal? And they're like, nah, I'm good. It was just to prove that I could do it.

off my jewish ass i'm like motherfucker are you out of your mind it's a 50 million dollar record deal are you crazy where are you going someone bring that bitch back to sign that fucking contract you must be out of your mind so when this whole youtube bullshit happened i was like oh fuck i'm like junior league famous or whatever i was like i'm gonna milk this shit out for everything it's worth so i had to i had to take a step back

take way less gear, focus on more like balancing my physique instead of just training everything for size. And so that was a big deal. And then in addition to that, like, you know, being on trend and shit, not exactly good for my relationship with my wife. And so I was like, okay, that, that ship has sailed. Now I'm coming back into my physique phase, but it turns out,

I came basically back to TRT and I functionally lost almost no muscle and I was fucking blown away. I was like, oh my God, I've been taking way too much gear for so goddamn long. And so that was like, I would have never figured that out had I not backed off. So now I'm going to be coming back in the competition and I'm basically going to take no more than like 500 megs of total gear.

And I know for a fact, I can put a physique on stage. It's like 210 pounds fucking shredded, like the shredded thing. We'll see if it works out. That's aspirational, but like muscularity wise, no problem, no problem. And so I'm going to do that. So luckily the trade-offs aren't as big, but next time.

So then 2026, when I hope to come back to bodybuilding competitively, I'm going to have to carve out a lot of time from my day away from work, um,

um and to really do the thing right because like there's a reason they call it professional bodybuilding there's actually two reasons one is you have a pro card from whatever federation you're competing in that's reason number one reason number two is you are professional athlete which means that's what you do you fucking don't you have some you know commitments to your sponsors you post some fucking tiktoks for them every now and again you wear their t-shirt to the gym but that's it you play playstation

You bang your toxic Latina girlfriend, and you just fucking train, and you fucking go to sleep, and that's what you do, and you eat your meals. That is a reason. It's not that the guys are lazy. It's that you need everything possible to recover as much as you can. That requires tradeoffs. I was kind of trying to do it all at the same time.

I get pretty decent results at everything, and then decent isn't good enough. And so for me, next time I come through competition, I'm going to have to lessen the shit for a little while and then come back into it. But as far as will I ever want to back up and focus on other stuff? Like I could, I could tell you yes, but.

What I want to look like and what I look like now are far enough apart that until and unless my health just throws the middle finger and is like, nah, you're done, I'm going to try to improve my look. I want significantly bigger arms and shoulders. I want a wider back. I want bigger upper pecs. And my legs are good now, but they'll probably get bigger anyway just because this is what they do.

And so I can improve my physique. For me, the most important part of working on my physique is the art. It's the science and the art of actually doing it. I don't give a fuck. Like, competing is whatever. I'm not a big fan of competing. I have won my class in shows before. It was no more fun than losing my class. You stand around. You look at everyone's cock. You're like 30, 40 minutes later.

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