#372: Mike Israetel, PhD – Bodybuilding, Avoiding Suffering & Lessons for Life
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mike Israetel is the cofounder of Renaissance Periodization, where he produces content related to training and dieting for hypertrophy, strength and bodybuidling.
Dr. Israetel is also currently a professor in the strength and hypertrophy masters program at Lehman College.
Mike is himself a competitive bodybuilder and professional Brazilian Jiu Jitsu grappler.
Show notes available at sigmanutrition.com/episode372
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. |
| 0:18.0 | You're listening to episode 372 of the podcast. As always, I'm your host, |
| 0:23.6 | Danny Lennon. And today my guest is going to be Dr. Mike Isretel, who many of you may be familiar |
| 0:29.2 | with. For those unfamiliar, Dr. Mike Isretel is the co-founder of Renaissance periodization, |
| 0:35.0 | where he does a lot of their content production there related to videos, |
| 0:39.5 | articles, books, etc. And Mike also has experience as a college professor where he's taught |
| 0:47.0 | courses related to sports and exercise science, sport physiology, nutrition for public health, and a number |
| 0:53.0 | of others. And Mike himself is a competitive |
| 0:57.0 | bodybuilder, and he also competes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And in this particular episode, I wanted to |
| 1:03.5 | focus in on some of Mike's most recent experiences in the sport of bodybuilding. And so the conversation |
| 1:09.9 | ends up being quite wide-ranging. And so the conversation ends up being quite wide ranging. |
| 1:12.8 | And so we don't necessarily dive into a specific nutrition topic as we've done on previous |
| 1:18.8 | episodes of the podcast that Mike has been on. I think he's been on three previous episodes |
| 1:24.0 | of the podcast where we discuss things like nutrient timing, nutrition for strength |
| 1:29.4 | athletes, we talked about evidence-based healthy eating principles, and I will link to all of those |
| 1:35.0 | previous appearances in the show notes to this episode if you want to go and listen back to those. |
| 1:40.9 | But this one ends up being more of a meta conversation and we get into both his |
| 1:46.4 | experiences with his recent contest prep and competition season, but also obstacles that happened |
| 1:52.1 | along the way, his mindset for dealing with things like that, and then some more random topics |
| 1:59.1 | related to dieting and gain taining, etc. So I hope you enjoy this particular |
| 2:05.0 | conversation. Just as a bit of warning for those of you who either don't like swearing or |
| 2:13.2 | maybe tend to listen to your podcasts at home where there are children around or in the car, |
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