#335 The BIGGEST Mistake Powerlifters Make When Returning From Injury | Mike Israetel & Christle Guevarra
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
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Dr. Christle Guevarra, DO, MS, CAQSM, and Dr. Mike Israetel join us for this episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk podcast.
Dr. Christle Guevarra earned her M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her D.O. from Western University of Health Sciences. She previously taught as a Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellow at WesternU and completed her Family Medicine residency at Crozer Health in PA, where she was named "Resident of the Year." After a Sports Medicine fellowship at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, she now runs a telemedicine practice, serves as a Team Physician for US Figure Skating, and manages projects for RP Strength. An advocate for Exercise Is Medicine, Christle, a former competitive powerlifter, enjoys weightlifting and training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Dr. Mike Israetel holds a Ph.D. in Sport Physiology from Lehman College, CUNY, where he teaches. He co-founded Renaissance Periodization, a diet and training consultancy, and has earned a purple belt in BJJ and a brown belt in jiu jitsu. Mike also competes as an NPC bodybuilder.
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| 0:00.0 | This has become a huge topic over the past five years where the warm up to get ready to bench is now taking longer than the whole bench training day. |
| 0:08.0 | What I can actually diagnose based off of ultrasound, MRI, those types of diagnostic tools will actually help me see the severity of what's actually going on inside. You know, the bad guys are coming. |
| 0:22.6 | The Padaun lures, the Jedi Knights, they get their sword and they run to it. |
| 0:25.6 | What does Yoda do? |
| 0:26.6 | He sits back and watch us for a sec before he goes. |
| 0:28.6 | Be f f*** Yoda. |
| 0:29.6 | Don't run into battle. |
| 0:31.6 | Be patient and rebuild real strong. |
| 0:46.9 | It's time to sit down, keep it real and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay, we're back again on Table Talk with Dr. Mike and Dr. Crystal, right? |
| 0:54.7 | Yes. |
| 0:55.7 | Correct. |
| 0:56.7 | Yes. |
| 0:57.7 | Okay. |
| 0:58.7 | And we're going to jump off with where we kind of ended with the last podcast with periodization |
| 1:04.5 | and we were going to get into the nuance of injuries and considering you're a real doctor. |
| 1:10.7 | You're not. |
| 1:11.6 | Agreed. |
| 1:12.6 | And that that would be a good place to kind of jump off here. |
| 1:17.6 | So with strength athletes and I guess we just say all athletes that are training for strength. All athletes in general. |
| 1:29.3 | All athletes that they should be. |
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