#326 How To Actually Build Explosive Strength and Muscle For Your Sport | Mike Israetel

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Dave Tate

Health & Fitness, Fitness

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Dr. Mike Israetel joins us again for another Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast in episode #326. In this episode, sports periodization for athletes and coaches is discussed — starting off with needs analysis.

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.

Mike's IG: https://www.instagram.com/drmikeisraetel/

Renaissance Periodization: https://rpstrength.com/

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0:00.0	The ultimate thing you want is to be good at playing the fluid game that is your sport.
0:05.0	For a lot of sports, the lifting is just a very minor component.
0:08.0	Maintaining a fitness quality is exponentially easier than improving it.
0:13.0	So instead of trying to improve everything all at the same time, which is really hard,
0:18.0	we can put a bunch of stuff on maintenance or close and then really improve
0:21.9	some things. The best way to train for sport isn't to just play the sport. Yes. So you do want me
0:26.9	address sport periodization? Yeah. Okay.
0:32.7	Sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.
0:38.2	Welcome to Table Talk.
0:39.9	All right, guys, we're back again with another episode of Table Talk.
0:42.8	I have Dr. Mike out again, and we're going to do the podcast that we should have done the first time.
0:47.7	We're going to talk about sport periodization.
0:50.5	Before we get into that, we have a Discord community, a crew community that helps support the podcast.
0:56.8	I have them submit some questions, and I got a question for you that they submit them.
1:02.3	And this one's not going to be sport periodization.
1:05.0	All right.
1:05.7	So Mike gets to fight any method of your choice, any social media influencer that you want, winner takes
1:14.6	all followers. Now, this fight can be a pizza eating contest, it can be jiu-it-sue, it can be
1:20.7	whatever you want. What would you use as the fight? And then who would it be?
1:29.1	That is a tough question because, like, do you want someone's followers?
1:33.5	Maybe they suck.
1:35.3	Like, oh, I have 100,000 trolls I just inherited.
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