The Truth About Body Fat Myths with Dr. Pak
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Want to get even more jacked? Grab the RP Hypertrophy App for your training, and maximize your gym efforts with the RP Diet Coach App to nail your nutrition.
Dr. Pak's Links:
https://www.instagram.com/dr__pak/
https://www.youtube.com/@Dr__Pak
00:00:00 - "The Pakman's" Greek heritage
00:06:25 - Myth 1: Can you actually measure body fat accurately?
00:10:45 - Why body fat tests vary so much (Dexa, Bod Pod, BIA)
00:15:30 - Waist circumference as a better health predictor
00:21:10 - Myth 2: Does high body fat prevent muscle gain?
00:27:30 - The challenge of maintenance
00:33:00 - Defining a healthy body fat range for men and women
00:37:45 - Visual body fat charts and why they are unreliable
00:44:00 - How lighting and social media distort our expectations
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone to the R.B. Strength podcast. I am Nick Shaw, and today I am joined by |
| 0:09.6 | third time on the podcast, Dr. Pack, the Pac-Man. How many times have you ever been called |
| 0:16.6 | Pac-Man before in your life? This is the first time ever in my life. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. |
| 0:23.9 | I really wanted to try to pronounce like your full name, but I'm just like, I got nothing |
| 0:30.0 | here. |
| 0:30.5 | I got nothing. |
| 0:32.1 | Can you pronounce your full name for everyone? |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 0:36.2 | It's not a difficult name to pronounce is that's it's |
| 0:38.6 | just that it's intimidating and obviously foreign looking it's super intimidating I |
| 0:42.6 | looked at it I was like I had bad I don't know I got the easiest name in the world |
| 0:47.1 | Nick Shaw like come up yeah it's true dick. John Smith. |
| 0:55.0 | You're like, okay, okay. |
| 0:56.0 | You're just making up random white names. |
| 0:58.0 | All right. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, the full name is Patricklos and Dr. Lackis, Korakakis. |
| 1:02.0 | So I have both my father's, well, my mother's and my father's surname, which is uncommon for Greeks. |
| 1:07.0 | And Patricklos was, if you watch Troy with Brad Pitt, Troy, so obviously Brad Pitt was Achilles, and in Greek mythology, Patricklos was his best friend and potentially lover. |
| 1:19.5 | Now, some Greeks, the one Greek that is listening to this will be like, hey, that's not fully historically accurate. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm like, okay, listen, this is the RP strength podcast, not the Greek |
| 1:28.8 | propaganda podcast. Okay, there were potential lovers, so, you know, get with it. And no problem |
| 1:34.4 | with that, right? No problem with that whatsoever. Yeah, yeah, it's 2026. Maybe it made them better |
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