SNR #190: Mike Israetel, PhD - Nutrition Considerations for the Strength Athlete

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🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Mike Israetel, PhD discusses the relative importance of carbohydrates for strength athletes, planning nutrition periodization for strength athletes and how to structure mesocycles for strength gain.

Mike Israetel is currently a professor of Exercise Science at Temple University in Philadelphia, as well consulting nutritional and training for elite strength and combat athletes around the world. Mike is the head science consultant for Renaissance Periodization, where he has authored and co-authored a number for books. He has a PhD in Sport Physiology from East Tennessee State University, and on the sporting side has experience as a competitive powerlifter, grappler and bodybuilder.

In This Episode We Discuss:

Do strength athletes (powerlifters, weightlifters) need full glycogen stores? What roles do carbohydrates serve for such athletes?
Nutrition considerations when making weight for a meet
Nutritional periodization for the strength athlete: diet early and maintain lower bodyweight, or maintain higher weight before dieting close to the meet?
Do the volume landmarks for planning training (MRV, MEV, MAV) still apply for the strength athlete? Are volume increases as important?

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0:00.0	When you subject the body to a hypocholaric condition, not enough calories, must make sure that the anabolic stimuli coming in from training are relatively high to counterbalance the catabolic stimuli of the hypochloric condition.
0:21.6	So the not enough food tells your body lose muscle, lose muscle, lose muscle.
0:25.6	You gotta present it with some decent training volume so that it says,
0:29.6	build muscle, build muscle, and those two cancel out, and you don't lose any muscle.
0:33.6	So months ahead of your meat, you'll be doing sets of five, sets of eight, maybe even triples, anywhere in that spectrum.
0:41.1	And if that's enough volume, you'll be doing enough sets to actually make sure that you don't lose muscle while you're losing fat.
1:07.6	Yeah. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:14.4	As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon, and we are at episode 190 of the podcast. And in just a few moments, I'm going to be talking with Dr. Mike Isertel of Renaissance
1:19.8	periodization, a guy who I'm sure most of you are familiar with. He's been on the podcast twice
1:26.1	before. And this time time we're going to get
1:29.2	into a lot of the considerations that are specific to strength athletes. And I think it's a really
1:34.7	informative discussion and hopefully covering some topics that are of interest to you because I
1:40.2	certainly think they were things that I was particularly interested in asking Mike
1:45.5	and getting his thoughts on.
1:47.0	And so I hope you will enjoy the episode.
1:49.9	The show notes are going to be over at sigmautrition.com slash episode 190.
1:55.4	And there you'll be able to get access to our transcripts of the podcast, a bit more about
1:59.5	Mike's background, links to anything
2:01.4	we mentioned throughout this episode and a ton of other stuff related to today's episode.
2:07.6	Just before we start, just a couple of things to mention to you guys, bits of news that may be
2:12.3	of interest. Like I mentioned last week, the Sigma Nutrition Seminar for 2007 is going to be happening this
2:19.0	November. Full details are being announced this week, so that announcement is probably going to come
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