208: Dr. Mike Israetel: Scientific Principles Of Strength Training

Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life

Ted Ryce

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Brief Bio:

Mike is a professor of Exercise Science at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and was previously a professor at the University of Central Missouri, where he taught Exercise Physiology, Personal Training, and Advanced Programming for sports and fitness. Mike's Ph.D. is in Sport Physiology, and he has been a consultant on sports nutrition to the U.S. Olympic Training Site in Johnson City, TN. Mike has coached numerous powerlifters, weightlifters, bodybuilders, and other individuals in both diet and weight training. Originally from Moscow, Russia, Mike is a competitive powerlifter, bodybuilder, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu grappler.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How long it really takes to transform your body
5 Ways to take your fitness routine to the next level
The biggest myths about weightlifting
6 Tips to reach your fitness goal
How long should you rest between workouts
How to optimize pre and post workout nutrition
5 Common muscle building mistakes
Bro split routines: What you need to know
Why proper fitness takes time
7 Signs you're overtraining
How to lose weight and keep it off
5 Reasons you should be eating carbs
What you need to know before going on a ketogenic diet

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Legendary Life Podcast. I'm your host, Ted Rice.
0:13.8	This is the show that's all about taking
0:16.4	your health, your body, and your life to the next level.
0:20.4	Today I have an amazing guest for you. His name is Dr. Mike Isritel. He is a competitive bodybuilder, a competitive powerlifter. He has former state national world records in powerlifting. He is a competitive
0:37.9	Grapler. He just started Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu not too long ago.
0:43.2	He's already competing in it.
0:44.5	And he competes both in bodybuilding
0:47.5	and in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu now.
0:50.6	We talk a little bit about that, but I'll tell you the reason that I asked Dr Mike to come on the show today is because Charles Staley said and Charles is a friend of mine and also a world-renowned strength coach. He's also been on the show, of course.
1:06.7	He told me that he sat down with Dr. Mike Israel to get coaching from him on how to write better programs, to get him up to speed on all
1:16.6	the science of optimizing weightlifting, resistance training, strength training, whatever you want to call it.
1:24.4	And he's the guy that people like me learn from.
1:29.2	He's the guy that people like Charles learn from. And I wanted him on today because one of the things I try to do with
1:36.6	this podcast is bridge the gap for you. You get so much fitness information from marketers from from personal trainers
1:45.9	who don't know what the hell they're talking about and I like to bring on not just
1:51.5	people who are like me who are probably not as good in many cases, but have a good
1:57.6	following or they're making some money or whatever. This is a guy who understands the deep science behind getting results with exercise.
2:06.0	He's going to help you clear up some of your misconceptions about strength training
2:12.0	about how to optimize the level of stress that you're putting on your body through exercise so that you can become the biggest and strongest,
2:22.0	leanest person that you aspire to be.
2:27.0	And we talk about training, we talk about why the Bro Split is not as good as high frequency training.
2:34.4	He gives examples of high frequency training,
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