Dr Mike Weighs in on the Squats as Cardio Debate
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:28 Menno's squats for cardio study
7:47 People interpreted this wrong
14:49 People only reading headlines
20:15 Squatting with runners
26:10 Dealing with nuance
37:30 The real liars
43:02 Thumbnails and titles explained
46:27 "Runners are psychos"
48:57 Paleo and Crossfit
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the RP string podcast. I am Nick Shaw joined by Dr. Mike. What's up, man? What's up, Nick? How are you? I'm well. Thank you, sir. Thank you for asking. I appreciate it. Thank you for caring about me. I care about you every minute that I'm awake. Hmm. That's nice. It gives me the warm and fuzzies. |
| 0:21.3 | Where? |
| 0:21.9 | Everywhere. |
| 0:22.9 | Mm. |
| 0:24.7 | All right. |
| 0:25.7 | Oh, man. |
| 0:26.9 | Mike, social media. |
| 0:28.1 | Manno Henselman, post some stuff, post lots of reviews. |
| 0:32.6 | One, can I, can we actually make this into a, if I asked you one about one of a studies do you think |
| 0:38.5 | we can give a brief synopsis over it and within a few minutes we'll find out oh boy well yeah |
| 0:46.0 | if you were with us for the last episode you appreciate this one then last one was all about |
| 0:50.3 | dining experiences um okay so one i want to get your take because it seemed to be at least somewhat controversial. |
| 0:57.8 | He posted a study, something like high rep squats, I think it was a 20RM, was what the synopsis |
| 1:03.2 | was, it was similar to doing cardio. |
| 1:04.9 | How true do you think that is? |
| 1:06.4 | Multiple sets of 10 in the squat, I think it was 4 by 10 or 5 by 10. |
| 1:11.9 | I believe it's 5 by 10. |
| 1:14.3 | And the insight was that especially the stronger lifters, they approached and exceeded 100% of their VO2 max towards the end of the last few reps of the last few sets. |
| 1:28.4 | I saw that it was, I almost never look at comments anymore, but I saw that there was a |
| 1:33.0 | shitload of him and I was like, da fuck. |
| 1:34.8 | And I looked in and there was a couple of debates going and Mr. Lane Norton got in there. |
| 1:39.1 | He was a hybrid guy that was in there. |
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