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RP Strength Podcast

Should You Train While Sick?

RP Strength Podcast

Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7582 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

0:20 Nick and Mike's rap career
2:42 Week 1 leg training
4:01 Damage vs growth
8:52 Determining growth in studies
12:53 Training while hurt or sick
17:03 Good health and body composition
20:16 Are you actually sick?
30:25 What to do if   you are really sick
34:24 Nick's sick anger
39:08 Getting back to training
47:07 When to scrap a mesocycle
52:29 Recommendations on contest prep

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone, to the R.B. String podcast.

0:06.0

I am Nick Shaw and joined by Dr. Mike.

0:09.0

What's up, man?

0:10.5

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, check it out.

0:12.6

Yo, yo, yo, oh.

0:14.5

Something that people don't know about Nick and I is that for a very long time, before we ever got into fitness,

0:21.4

Nick and I were very successful street rappers.

0:26.0

In New York City.

0:27.5

In New York City.

0:28.5

And it was hard out there, but it was hard for emcees that would try to diss us

0:32.7

because we were just dishing it out.

0:39.7

When I, well, you were already out there, I forget the exact time, but there was a movie.

0:44.8

I had Channing Tatum and he was like a, I want to say he was like a fighter,

0:48.8

but it would be like in backyard type things.

0:51.1

And they had this song, Fort Minor, remember the name.

0:54.0

Like, that's what

0:54.4

it reminds me of just rapping or minor 10% luck 20% skill 15% concentrated power of will

1:02.9

5% pleasure 50% pain 100% reason to remember the name and does that actually sum up to

1:08.9

100 does anyone ever check that math? Yeah, it did.

1:28.0

Yeah, that was like the first thing I did, but I heard that song. I used to listen to that a lot when I was saying that. Yeah, it's a good song. Great pump-up song. It is. Yeah, yeah. It is. It's one of those that, like, a lot of power lifters called that out as their third attempt song and a lot of bodybuilders post of that song for like half a generation probably.

1:31.0

Yeah. A lot of powerlifters called that out as their third attempt song and a lot of bodybuilders

1:28.0

post of that song for like half a generation probably.

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