Optimizing Performance with Renaissance Periodization Founder Dr. Mike Israetel
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mike Israetel is co-founder and Head Science Consultant at Renaissance Periodization, a company dedicated to providing competitive and non-competitive athletes with scientifically backed methods of improving performance and altering body composition.
Dr. Israetel has a PhD in Sport Physiology and has taught Exercise and Sport Science. He has also coached numerous powerlifters, weightlifters, bodybuilders, and other individuals in both diet and weight training, including consulting on sports nutrition to the U.S. Olympic Training Site in Johnson City, TN.
In this episode, we dive into why you shouldn’t be overly enthusiastic about your training program, maximum recoverable volume, what it takes to be a strength & conditioning coach, and much more.
-Mike, Doug and Anders
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| 0:00.0 | Or, you want to go up against a guy who thinks he's a machine and is optimized every part of his process |
| 0:04.8 | He's just exactly enough to be the best. He lives everything in his life is lined up to fucking headlock you and kill you |
| 0:12.7 | He's in the heavy motions. He eats exactly supposed to sleep sick exactly trains exactly everything the coach says |
| 0:18.0 | You're like I have to wrestle that man. Isn't your tech easy machine? That's not a person |
| 0:22.7 | I want to live. I want to pull out of the competition. I don't want to do this shit anymore. Who do you want to be? |
| 1:00.0 | Mike Bludzer here with Doug Larson and his Varner and we have a cool guest today |
| 1:05.9 | Dr. Mike Israel and we're gonna be diving into some really scientific shit. I'm super excited |
| 1:12.7 | I'm super excited because I had heard about this man and then I met him at the CrossFit Games this last year and |
| 1:19.2 | I was really pleased by the conversation |
| 1:21.4 | Sometimes you hear all sorts of impressive stuff about someone from certain backgrounds and then they're just boring |
| 1:27.6 | So this is not Mike so setting that the expectations super high for you. Great. Don't screw this up. Yeah, I will be right |
| 1:35.7 | Underhand them greatly |
| 1:38.5 | We'll do now. So first off we have a couple sponsors first being organifi |
| 1:45.0 | Great supplements. Was it Anders? We were talking about the green juice because Mike's not familiar with organifi |
| 1:51.4 | Maybe we can not must have a supplement person |
| 1:53.8 | Uh |
| 1:55.8 | Not particular maybe we'll get into a later. Yeah, I take this one. This one easy |
| 2:02.7 | It's a little scooper you get all your vitamins and minerals you don't have to know free-basing |
| 2:09.0 | You want to call them supplements |
| 2:12.0 | My prolofster seems to disagree with me |
| 2:16.4 | He can't hear this right so we're good. He doesn't know you're in California right now. Oh god. That's another issue |
| 2:23.7 | I'm like checking you for like we're like ankle bracelets now like did you break out of your house? |
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