It's Easier to Maintain Muscle than you think!
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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0:15 Mike has doubts
4:27 Olympia recap
12:59 Mike's surprising muscle retention
27:03 Its hard to lose muscle
37:19 Nick loves dirt pudding
38:51 How to easily maintain muscle
51:26 Nutrition and lifestyle components
1:08:30 How to come back to training after a break
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the RP Strength podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I am Nick Shaw joined by Dr. Mike. |
| 0:08.7 | What's up, man? |
| 0:10.7 | Mike, I've been struggling with doubts about myself recently. |
| 0:15.5 | Terrible, painful doubts. |
| 0:18.4 | I just don't know if I want to play another season in the NBA. 15 years, Nick, |
| 0:26.0 | my God. It's just, am I, is it the joints? Is it the fact that being six nine? I mean, |
| 0:34.3 | you know? It's a very real thing, man. |
| 0:37.6 | I mean, when I think of like just prototypical NBA superstar, I immediately think five, six Ashkenazi Jewish person. |
| 0:46.9 | That's immediately what comes to mind. |
| 0:49.3 | It's just where the talent is, fellas. |
| 0:50.9 | We didn't invent the game. |
| 0:52.1 | We just perfected the shit. |
| 0:53.8 | Actually, literally, that's backwards. I was going to say, I was going to say, didn't you didn't invent the game. We just perfected the shit. Actually, literally, |
| 0:54.6 | that's backwards. I was going to say, I was going to say, didn't you? Did you, lovely fellas, |
| 1:01.0 | literally create their sport back in like the 1920s or something? Yeah, more or less, man. And then |
| 1:06.4 | Jews were actually like super dominant in professional basketball until like, you know, people with actual |
| 1:10.6 | talent decided to fucking play. And then black people decided to play and that was everyone's |
| 1:16.3 | fucking last time on the court now it's like now it's spread kind of worldwide man some of |
| 1:21.8 | best players in the in the in the in the world or like eastern european dude it's so crazy and |
| 1:27.3 | it's it's trippy to watch like um-American players, but mostly like African-American |
| 1:32.0 | commentators like try to make sense of that. |
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