#129 Mike Israetel of Renaissance Periodization
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Dave Tate
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🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mike Israetel is a Ph.D. in Sport Physiology and a professor at Lehman College (the only Bronx senior college of the City University of New York). He is the co-founder of Renaissance Periodization—a scientifically sound and reliable diet and training consultation service for anyone who wants to use it to achieve results. Mike has a BJJ purple belt and a jiu-jitsu brown belt and is an author and an NPC bodybuilder.
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Dave Tate is the founder and co-owner of elitefts.com. He is the author of twenty books and has logged more than 40,000 hours of training and consulting. Dave is married to elitefts co-owner Traci Arnold-Tate, and they reside in London, Ohio, with their two sons. Personal Credo: Live, Learn, Pass on™.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought you by EliteFTS.com, founded in 1998 with the primary aim to live, learn, and pass on. |
| 0:11.0 | Please help EliteFTS support this mission by smashing the like button, leaving a comment, |
| 0:16.0 | sharing with a friend, and thinking of us for your training needs. |
| 0:19.0 | If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, |
| 0:21.9 | Elite FTS has it. What's going on? I'm Dave Tate. We are broadcasting from the middle of the |
| 0:26.7 | Elite FTS weight room where the underground still thrives and you're part of the crew. It's time to |
| 0:31.2 | sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah. cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. All right, guys, we are back. |
| 0:43.8 | And today our guest is Mike Isretel. |
| 0:46.7 | We'll get into your background here in a little bit. |
| 0:49.0 | But first, I need to thank our sponsor, Merrick Health. |
| 0:52.2 | Merrick Health is a premium telehealth platform that specializes in hormone optimization |
| 0:57.0 | and preventative medicine. |
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| 1:14.4 | what you shouldn't do and so forth. |
| 1:15.9 | Or you can use Merrick's guided optimization where they'll hook you up with a patient care coordinator, |
| 1:21.4 | which will then help you with the labs, go over the labs, and then determine if you need |
| 1:26.8 | over the counter and then determine if you need over the counter or over the |
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