Mike Israetel

They don't prefer shredded people on average. Some do, but mainstream girls don't typically go for veins and striations.

The most important predictor of how well you do on these questions doesn't seem to be how drunk you are. Cuz some of the drunk people are doing well. It's what your educational background is. So far, so good.

we're all real fucking strong until an IPF lifter walks in and then we're like know if I lift weights or not.

If you have to ask why reps go down, you’re probably not going close to failure.

He's matching me pound for pound here.

Guys, I regret to inform you there is a global conspiracy amongst us the best training to gain muscle is 5 to 10 sets of 5 to 10 reps done twice a week per muscle.

Holy crap, what happened to that young man's arms? He is jacked.

The era for cold water immersion of, 'Well, yeah, it's not good for muscle growth, but it obviously I'm doing it for performance cuz it enhances recovery.' That era, to me, is over.

One of the biggest downsides is a potential to cap your brain development and steer it in a way that makes you more aggressive, more emotional, more irrational, and less intelligent for the foreseeable future of your lif

If you expect protein cereal to taste like high protein medicine that helps you get jacked, you're going to have an amazing time and be super pleasantly surprised.

as soon as you get to cutting over 7%, man, you're really entering some unlikely but realistic possibility of health complications. You can pass out in the sauna. You can have electrolyte disruptions, do weird things to

If you can maintain beginner results with beginner volumes, for the love of God, don't go do intermediate shit.

The number one seller on Amazon did not have any creatine in their gummy.

She's not just the best female CrossFit her of all time. She's the best CrossFit her of all time because no one on the male side has won any more than five.

The number one reason people lift heavy and for lower reps is because it's fun as fuck and it strokes your ego. Straight up.

Some of the dumbest shit I've ever done in my life was eat way too much clean food and get fat off of clean food.

Training past failure will absolutely make any given set more anabolic. It linearly increases the growth which is sweet, but it exponentially increases the fatigue, which is not sweet.

the total of 40. That like pull-ups are so hard and so heavy that even if you go a few reps at a time, you're meeting like the minimum threshold to activate most of your large high threshold motor units.

If you don't puke within 30 seconds, come back out.

the idea that children can't lift weights without affecting their height is seemingly more and more likely every year that we do research on it to be just something someone made up.