#273 Mike Israetel | Renaissance Periodization, Bulking With Dr. Mike
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
4.9 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 163 minutes
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Dr. Mike Israetel joins us AGAIN for another Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast in episode #273
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What the shit? |
| 0:03.0 | What the shit? |
| 0:07.0 | What the shit? It's Now |
| 0:32.6 | It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:41.4 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:44.8 | We're not old after all. |
| 0:46.3 | That's right. |
| 0:46.7 | We're still, we still got pepping our voice. |
| 0:48.8 | I'll spy. |
| 0:50.3 | Pepp in our voice. |
| 0:51.3 | Pept in the voice. |
| 0:53.1 | All right, you ready? |
| 1:12.6 | All right. All right, guys. We're back with another episode of Table Talk. Today, my guest is Dr. Mike. Really doesn't need any introduction, but I'm still going to say, co-founder of RP Strength, co-founder of Team ROM. Team Full ROM. Team Full ROM. Yeah, but like, you know, that's just a little side project with my homies. Yeah. |
| 1:13.6 | It is a subsidiary of RP Strength. |
| 1:15.6 | Yes, and you have two YouTube channels, the RP Strength channel and Mike Isertel |
| 1:20.6 | Making Progress channel. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.6 | And so we're going to dabble around and talk about a bunch of different things. |
| 1:26.6 | But as I told you before we started, |
| 1:28.4 | first time I had you out, I took you through my how to rank a coach test. I loved it. And you |
| 1:32.7 | killed that. I ranked the lowest ever. I think I had to actually was probably the highest ever. |
| 1:38.4 | But we'll just say it was the lowest ever, which we'll just segue straight into. |
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