Why Drugs Did Not Break Every Record at the Enhanced Games With Dr. Derek Wilcox
RP Strength Podcast
Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw
4.7 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
A bonus episode on The Enhanced Games!
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Guest Links
Dr. Derek Wilcox's Links:
- Website/Coaching: Wilcox Strength Inc.
- RP Coaching: Derek Wilcox | PhD
- Instagram: @wilcoxstrengthinc
Timestamps
00:00 Intro and what the Enhanced Games are
02:01 Why "enhanced" does not mean a drug free-for-all
03:49 Transparency, bloodwork, and the public-health question
06:17 Derek's background around clean and enhanced athletes
09:41 Why PEDs do not turn average athletes into world record holders
12:03 TRT, hormone levels, and performance misconceptions
15:16 Genetics vs drugs in elite sport
18:14 BALCO, baseball, and public narratives around PEDs
35:13 The $10 million sprint offer and money in sport
45:21 Drug testing, transparency, and whether this model is safer
51:38 Hormones, aging athletes, and smart training
55:05 Wrap-up
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the RP string podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Today is a bonus, bonus, bonus, bonus, bonus, bonus episode featuring Dr. Derek Wilcox, R.P. Coach extraordinaire. |
| 0:15.0 | How are you, sir? |
| 0:17.0 | Doing great, man. How are you doing? |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, never better. Just living the dream the dream my good sir it's living the |
| 0:23.0 | good the good life it is end of may we are recording this little bonus episode recently all the |
| 0:32.6 | eyes have been on the world of sport and the enhanced games. |
| 0:39.3 | Dun, done, done. |
| 0:40.8 | So bonus episode, we're going to talk about the enhanced games right now. |
| 0:45.4 | Derek, can you let people know what the enhanced games were? |
| 0:50.1 | Because they just happened about a week ago. |
| 0:52.5 | Actually, a week ago today. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, I believe so. Yeah, we'll remember a real day weekend out in Vegas, yep. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, it's basically an incredibly extensive experiment. |
| 1:04.0 | You see what happens when we open up organized sport to some degree. |
| 1:09.0 | Some would say it's an exhibition, but we'll see. I guess that's the |
| 1:12.0 | difference between an ongoing series and a one-time event. But actually encouraging drug use, |
| 1:18.7 | performance-enhancing drugs across the board. One with the caveat that they have to be |
| 1:24.9 | approved for human consumption, so they can't go start taking veterinary drugs and whatever else they can't use, |
| 1:31.4 | you know, degraded uranium or something to try and get performance enhancing effect. |
| 1:36.5 | But they have to actually use compounds that were approved for human use. |
| 1:41.4 | And they have to disclose their blood work to look at the actual health effects |
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