Mind Pump Host (likely Sal, Adam or Justin)

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

You just found the most downloaded fitness, health, and entertainment podcast. This is Mind Pump. All right. This episode is one of my favorites ever. We finally got Dr. Mike Israel on the podcast. You know who he is. By the way, warning, this episode has lots of colorful language and topics. We haven't laughed this hard in a long time, but also good stuff.

Talk about fitness and muscle building, the science behind it. So it's a very entertaining but also educational episode. Again, this is not parental advice here. This is a colorful, colorful episode. But we know you're going to love this episode, especially if you're a fan of his. By the way, you can find him on Instagram at Dr. Mike Israel. It's I-S-R-A-E-T-E-L.

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We also have a sale this month. MAPS 15 performance and the RGB bundle are both half off. If you're interested, go to mapsfitnessproducts.com and then use the code MAY50 for the discount. All right, here comes the show. Mike, welcome to the show, man.

Yeah, no problem. In fact, we just off-air learned that you just had some surgery. You have to take six weeks off of training, which you're probably going to lose all your gains.

Of course. That's how it works. That's the fear.

You know, this actually leads me to a good question or a good topic because you're obviously heavily muscled. You've been training for a long time. I think you said off-air was the longest you'd ever really taken off of training was like a week and a half. So you're very consistent. Six weeks off doing nothing because of surgery.

Of course, you're going to lose some muscle, but you got muscle memory. Talk about that. How powerful of an effect is muscle memory? What does the data show on how quickly you can gain back muscle once you've built it and then you lose it?

Yeah, it is. And it's so incredibly powerful that when you experience it, people have experienced it when they have a broken limb and they'll wear a cast and then they take the cast off and like, oh my God, I can see my bones. And then without even training, the muscle comes back. I think it points to the protective effects that strength training provides that are unique.

To other forms of exercise. That's why we sell it so hard. Are you familiar with like the Colorado experiment? You know, the familiar, the popular experiment that Casey Viator was a part of with Dr. Arthur Jones?

He got to the Nautilus. Now, it was witnessed. I don't know if it was 89. It was a ridiculous amount of muscle. I think it was 60. A big part of the story was Casey Viator was sick and had lost a lot. Before that, he was a highly competitive body, but lost so much muscle going into it. And then started training and maybe using gear. So you had the additive effect plus the genetics.

So I think it might have happened.

Well, I just went through the 22 pounds in four weeks. I mean, that was an example. Obviously, not as crazy as that example. But of course, everybody thought I was lying and all this bullshit. But what I knew was I was a competitor. I was a men's physique pro for years and walked around at 240, 5% body fat for an extended period of time.

Since then, I've completely fallen off keeping that kind of muscle. And so over the course of the last three, four years, I've lost 50 pounds of muscle off my body. Still have a decent amount, but nowhere near what I had before. And then I had just coming off of not training for like a month or two. And I documented the process of building back. And I told the audience, watch what I go do.

I'm going to go build 25 pounds of muscles fast. Again, I did it in four weeks. I put on like 22 pounds and nobody believed it. And the crazy part, Mike, is that I was doing two lifts a day. That's it. So not only does the period of time is so short, but even the volume and level of intensity that I had to do to get it back, it blew me away. I actually was really shocked.

I mean, I went about it my best I could and was a little surprised at how easy it was to get it back.

That's another good direction I'd like to ask you, Mike, because one of the reasons why we have you on the show, besides the fact that you have a... very colorful personality, very entertaining to watch. It's a nice way to say it. As you communicate accurately, because we all have two decades of training clients. We worked with everyday people for years and years and years.

When I hear really smart people communicating how much strength training you need for the average person to get some strength, some gains, whatever. You communicate it the most accurately based off of what we've experienced. How much strength training does the average person really need to reap the kind of benefits that they're looking for?

Not to be a pro bodybuilder, to get crazy, but just to get the strength, mobility, some of the health effects. What does that look like for the average person?

to the limits of our ability to recover. And we think that's what's necessary to look the way we do when oftentimes you scale back even with that person and they get better gains. They get better gains from doing less.

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