Dr. Mike's FULL Diet Setup: Macros, Pharm, & Training
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Want to get even more jacked? Grab the RP Hypertrophy App for your training, and maximize your gym efforts with the RP Diet Coach App to nail your nutrition.
00:00 - Intro - kids are ruthless
14:45 - Dr. Mike's full arc: time off > contest prep
28:30 - Cutting setup: pharm, Calories, steps, diet breaks
38:20 - How Mike found the "sweet spot" for his dieting setup
47:15 - Mike's split
53:45 - GLP-1 stack talk (Tirzepatide/RETA) + "future of bodybuilding" take
Happy New Year!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the RP Strength podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | I am Nick Shaw joined by the one and only Dr. Mike Izertel. |
| 0:12.6 | What I say on the channel, René Searle, René Sele's periodization, when I say on the channel, Dr. Mike here for RP strength, I want people to know that |
| 0:23.5 | every single time I say that I'm thinking of like Billy Mays Hayes or whatever for OxyClean, |
| 0:30.5 | that's what I'm trying to be. |
| 0:32.1 | Like, the thing about him is I have no idea who the fuck he was or if he was famous before |
| 0:37.1 | oxyclean. But when he said that I or if he was famous before OxyClean. |
| 0:38.3 | But when he said that I'm Billy, whatever, for OxyClean, I always felt special. |
| 0:42.6 | Like, I felt like he was taking his time to talk to us irrelevant, the NPCs. |
| 0:48.0 | He was doing it for the OxyClean Corporation. |
| 0:50.7 | And I thought that was just, it was a celebration we could all have together. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm saying, that was. In, thought that was just, it was, it was a celebration we could all have together. I'm saying. In high school, one of my buddies used to do that impression all the time. |
| 1:01.7 | We were going to some sporting event. There was probably like a basketball game in ninth or |
| 1:05.1 | 10th grade. And he just kept doing it repeatedly on the bus. And then finally a coach, like, |
| 1:08.8 | turned around and yelled, shut up, you know, something like that. |
| 1:12.2 | Just like, it was just a point of just excessive. |
| 1:14.8 | That's the thing. |
| 1:15.5 | I was talking to someone yesterday. |
| 1:17.2 | Oh, it was Adam. |
| 1:17.8 | You know Adam. |
| 1:18.3 | You met him. |
| 1:19.8 | And we were talking about back when I was in like junior high, high school, just the, |
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