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RP Strength Podcast

Why You Should Take Active Rest: The Benefits And How To Do It

RP Strength Podcast

Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7582 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

 
0:16 Mike sing carols,  hes a piece of garbage
4:08 How to train over the holidays
6:50 Mike loves my 600lb life
9:03 Nick has an unhealthy relationship with Michigan football
15:42 WIll you lose muscle with less training
23:11 Using the holidays for active rest
26:21 1 percent better everyday is BS
33:06 Taking two weeks off
37:37 Nick's a libra
41:30 Not getting too hyped for lifts
45:18 Nick skips leg day
47:38 What to do and not do on active rest
56:40 The most important concept of recovery
1:00:30 Mike masters monopoly
1:03:45 How to come back after a break

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone to the RPC

0:05.8

podcast.

0:06.2

I am Nick Shaw and joined by

0:08.2

Dr. Mike Isratel.

0:10.4

What's that, man?

0:11.2

I'd like to make an announcement.

0:12.4

That's it.

0:14.1

Okay.

0:15.6

Oh, dreaming of one Christmas.

0:23.0

I don't know the rest of the song,

0:24.4

but I know it sounds like, the reason I'm doing that,

0:30.3

Nick,

0:30.5

is because Crystal and I leave on like dog TV

0:33.7

for our dog land when I'm in the basement

0:36.3

and Crystal's in our office working all day long,

0:38.4

like we do. And recently we've been turning on like theme ambient music, like Halloween, scary

0:47.0

music or whatever. But now that it's officially Christmas time, you don't care what,

0:51.3

don't even DM us about this. Christmas begins on November 1st,

0:56.8

as far as I'm concerned. That's when Christmas season, holiday season begins. And so we're

1:01.4

full into the swing of classic Christmas music playing at our house for eight hours a day.

1:08.1

Nick, would you survive staying at our house for eight hours?

1:11.9

Because of the music or just because of you in general?

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