A complicated morning with Mike Israetel.

what was actually your question no I just wanted do you live in Vegas I don't but uh is it hot in here or is it just me gentle control boom Oh that's nasty this morning I'm going to train with Mike isrel here lift ATX which is my favorite place to spend a Saturday morning and has been for two and a half years since I moved to Austin It's a combination of gangster rap and death metal music in a garage I've trained all around the world and it's got the best atmosphere of anywhere I've ever trained it's going to be way too loud today so apologies if you don't get to hear me in Mike apologies if YouTube copyright strikes the video or whatever but it's just too much fun for us to not do it good morning D you're excited you got a pack day man let's go big boy day you got a pack day today we got to get you your coffee in you your caffeine your whatever you need Dr Mike's here good [Music] morning it's the intent that counts it's very important on a Saturday for any upper body session to begin with C what's going on good to see you day Mike nice meeting you how are you what are we hitting today what is today uh it's complicated it's complicated okay that's a good like asking a [ __ ] boy about his relationship status yeah yeah remember when that was a selection yeah on Facebook it's complicated in a relationship with myself it's complicated we're doing a lot of like chest and shoulders and triceps and stuff [ __ ] yeah of chest and shoulders are you guys using that Cybex machine I we have CS first but afterwards yes okay we will no no please no no my God just use it and then we'll be next in line you joining me or no no no my calvs are sort that was a warm-up uh yeah I'll be six and a half uh how many times could you have done that how many times could you have done that wait I would have gone 210 230 250 and stayed at about 12ish reps maybe pushed a little bit more and that would have been four sets today we'll do one giant drop set is that okay with you it'll be really fun okay cool I'm in you will do full range of motion until I say halfway then you do the bottom only come halfway up and right back back down okay and when you come down I want you to come down under slow control and hold the bottom position for one full second count every single rep but at the top just pulse up and come back down cool I have trepidation good my hot right is high caps Chris you'll be fine yeah I know I know one second hold at the bottom yes now halfway up only good one second at the bottom good rack rack rack [Music] Rack [ __ ] right back in right now repeat full range first halfway up only go very good oh one one last one this one is just halfway up to begin with begin only halfway 10 total reps two more come on Chris all right now don't go anywhere go all the way to the bottom lock your knees out lock your knees out hold it that's it oh good job that's it oh oh that was aw that was me that was mean but not a lot of time spent and lots of lots of working out oh man I can't I can't it doesn't feel like my feet are attach weird you're like walking in big boots or something yeah I want to look cool around the high fecundity individuals you look well seun don't you oh my God what's that like is that like God we're not I'm not you can finish your guys' sets we're not going to push you off how long you go you can also do something else while they do this how long do you guys think you have left on there we just started but again y'all can do this and then we'll work no no no no butts required uh we'll do it no no no 15 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes we got you 15 15 all right de we're going to come back in 15 and I swear to God if you guys are still here I'm going to politely ask how many seconds or minutes you have left we can just do standing standing CA I haven't done these this is one of the trendy movements that you've brought back in along with that lying down flat bench thing yeah uh this is one of the trendy ones I haven't done yet so I need more keys so just step forward really reach back behind yourself and just curl yes is there any movement in the shoulder no a little bit's okay but nothing on purpose yep control the Ecentric and then really take take a second at the bottom very good how many like [Music] 10 can I have you real quick of course my name is Andrew everyone who wants to get into like weight I'm just like go to Dr [ __ ] hilarious super knowledgeable yes I would be honored remember your first working set now first working set is next uh one rep away from failure or so remember that number because you're going to have to repeat that number twice you made me do this yesterday yeah [ __ ] suck yeah okay [Music] come on to go [Music] 12 beautiful however many sets it takes you'll watch me do this after I'm done with a few I'm going to go back I'm going to hold on to the handles probably still I'm just going to chill for like 5 seconds and I'm going to walk forward so this my match mhm my rep match my match you use mys to match your first set on the second third fourth Etc so if you got I got 15 on my first set but I got to get 15 again on the second another third we have three sets today go go [Music] [Applause] go come on yes come on [Music] here we go come [Music] on come on diesel I'm sure that you could probably like Claude or chat GP that uh please list the 100 most common most epic spotter gym glossery terms I bet I don't know it's got to start watching videos once it starts watching all of YouTube it's going to get real smart game over have you got a you you must have a mic mic bot in uh internally somewhere do you little llm that people can be like my [ __ ] shoulders hurt when I do that we're we're working on it [ __ ] yeah yeah it has uh so has trouble figuring out what I would say and what general fitness bodybuilding.com articles from 2002 would say so it's very important that we distinguish between the two yeah that last inch follow through [Music] yes yep yep [Music] my uh my that my that guy my this one hurts from the [ __ ] just DS but like [ __ ] yeah first ever forearm training ever forearm training yeah yeah yeah what's the secret [ __ ] same as everything else that people are good at yeah genetics genetics and then effort and time that's most of it yes but the single largest contributor was choosing different parents which literally you couldn't have done yeah so CL rack ref how many uh two more [Music] good [Music] technique finish yeah [ __ ] yeah the [ __ ] worst thing about really hard half training the very beginning of a workout is it for the rest of the day you're like yeah you can't stand up in a sort of sturdy masculine manner you're like a wacky waving inflatable Arling Tube Man outside of a car cell but with big Cals but with [ __ ] jacked cars it's not the women everywhere that's making me shake I promise it was CS at the start of the session hey D like uh you're kidding right now time the [ __ ] out of that yes building yes yes I I mean we're going to make it way thanks Mye diligence thanks this is lovely I mean yesterday we trained a collective up north and it was silent except for the sound of our dark thoughts and inappropriate jokes and today it's whatever the opposite is loud uh I love it I think for a Saturday morning this is exactly what I want really it feels like the end of the week to me it feels like oh [ __ ] like I'm being social and I got a little bit in the tank and it's like [ __ ] you know I quite like it yeah if you're single this is a [ __ ] place to go to awesome Texas to talk to well G whiz to talk to nice young ladies that are that are into fitness well well well G whz young Ma you sure look like you're ready to reproduce oh boy and it looks like you're taking care of your health which is really [Music] important something I've noticed ever since the session I did with you and Jared um and you kind of P the rug out from underneath the tempo on Ecentric as it's not really about the tempo it's about control yeah and what we do is we use the tempo as the easiest Pro a q for control yeah and then whenever I see you doing reps at that kind of speed I'm like oh yeah he's just getting it to the soft pause position reaching Chester and then pressing got fuckle or less significantly less to do with the like one two totally three totally four we just use that as a cue to get people to control yeah yes that's the most easy one for me to see it on it nothing else is moving there's no movement it's just cool chest up at the [Music] bottom gentle rack rack rack rack rack little heavy yeah yeah 185 will be a good weight for you what do you look for when you're looking at a Smith machine is it the original sybex or not these are good it's the best Smith ever made you're kidding mhm why um thin bar yep very smooth low friction it's not designed to feel heavier at the top than the bottom bottom so it [ __ ] on on all categories yeah control The Descent pause at the chest without sinking in and then come up 2/3 to 3/4 of the way up don't lock out come back down [Music] okay press press all the way all the way all the way rra eight reps very good do you have one of these I don't I don't it would have to be used and I don't know where to get one oh the [ __ ] it's like a what were those drugs that everyone was taking during Wolf of Wall Street qu luds qu luds yeah it's oh my God you got the [ __ ] original 1980s qu ludes it's a collector's edition oh yeah [Applause] [Music] big chest 2/3 of the way up there you go no dogs inside of the gym a laugh a laugh they let me train but just for today I somehow got in I mean the other thing saying is no gyms inside of the dog that's what you don't need you know you know sign come [Music] on how many was that 15 was that your first set no second but did that match your first set did it yeah [ __ ] yeah so is the way that you're doing these you create a a target number with your first set when you're freshest yeah and then on subsequent sets when you're more fatigued you continue to work off that but you use the Mya rep thing to allow you to always hit it yep right okay it's just a way to smash in a lot more volume in a nonarbitrary way yes you're like oh how many more sets do I have to do however many sets you plann but now you know it's going to take a lot of effort yep because it can normally be like I did 15 I feel good I slacked off and did eight on the next one I could have done 10 y this way it's like you're going to get all the volume you promis you're always going to hit 15 it just might take a little while exactly and research shows that putting in the volume is what determin growth by far just get all the Reps in sets breakdowns all that stuff rest times uh a feature but not super important all the Reps you need to get in very important all right let's get about six [Music] dig chest gentle [Music] control I notice uh you tend to seem quite Serene before you start your set yeah and then switch the ancestral trauma but n and only when required yeah so like Jared and I have come to this conclusion that uh we're now sufficiently able to contract our muscles hard and we're strong enough that hyping up at the beginning of a set just increases our probability of injury but also doesn't yield much of anything because you don't need to be hyped for the first couple reps you could do those in your sleep you need to get hype for the last couple reps so you'll see my facial intensity incrementally increase throughout but one of the reasons I'm Serene before a set right at the beginning is because you know like uh there's so many distractions around us when there's hot guys hot girls all the [ __ ] going on almost music the scene thoughts of like oh I'm like Mike I'm an influencer people know me do I have to look a certain way do I have to act a certain way how are people looking at me all this clutter just noise and then so before I go I if you imagine the noise like decel like signals on a audio input and then I go that's very cool ocean of cough that's very cool I can't get my mojo and connect with my body really well if I have sociological clutter in my brain so I have to let it sink which why you tend to have your gym totally silent totally empty it's empty only because I have no friends what in the middle of nowhere for sure yeah I like uh I love training with gyms with other people around um I don't like music when I train uh especially music I didn't choose it doesn't bother me but like it's another sociological input that has to get cleared before I go because like whatever the [ __ ] this is Ron this has nothing to do with lifting in my soul at all like it's just some dude talking about [ __ ] [ __ ] or whatever the [ __ ] that is true [Music] yes here we go 16 15 how's the Latin stion and Peck and whatever else it is that migles a little bit after yesterday and today it's okay so far if you were to if I wanted to give you the task of [ __ ] your [ __ ] up as quickly as possible in a gym yeah where would you go and what would you do for me personally yeah given your yeah physiology I would do a heavy set of walking dumbbell lunges because that somehow [ __ ] my PCS up and then I would do a heavy set of bench like set of five to failure and my PCS would probably both like get micro tears yeah it'd be really fun Gentle Touch [Music] yes oh yeah oh yeah one more glorious guys brother I was jering off some of your videos last night I'm man did not it's a pleasure huh with that hand oh yeah with that hand why you think I stick his hand with it yeah exactly it's a it's a pleasure anytime I have someone like asking me for lights or whatever like for oh [ __ ] watch a bunch of them he's it's [ __ ] hilarious cool thing to think about that we'd never be able to track but think about how many pounds of lean tissue have been directly derived from things that you've said on the internet like that's [ __ ] cool [ __ ] GDP growth [ __ ] the happiness index [ __ ] unemployment look at how many pounds you want to see employment of that's employment right there that's a that's a full economy baby how did you meet Crystal on Facebook no way yeah good okay your wife to me seems like maybe as non-fungible of a human as you are nonf fungible like just one in a [ __ ] 100,000 one in a million very unique constitution of [ __ ] [ __ ] that's grown together yeah and you found her on Facebook yeah she was uh in the commenting and like powerlifting circles and so was I and she like liked the posts here and there and I read her comments and I would like uh be like oh this [ __ ] is kind of smart and I clicked on her picture and it kind of looked like her eyes were too close together I was like uh but uh she was like in medical school and everything and I was like all right met school that's a huge Flex cuz at that point in my life I I wasn't really uh I wasn't looking for any more flings I was looking how long ago was this oh jeez 10 years ago and uh but I was interested in like serious people cuz like [ __ ] plots are dope and I love them to death but like if you're not in an advanced degree program we're never getting married it's just not going to happen unless you're somehow otherwise incredibly accomplished um and so uh I actually uh you know she kept hopping up and [ __ ] and so I was like [ __ ] it I'll run some game and so I actually dm' her what was your opening Gambit I was like hey do you want to hear like a [ __ ] kind of tripped out story and she was like yeah and then that's it what was the story so it it's was actually a true story about like a kid that was ask me questions on Facebook all the time but uh he was uh very awkward and he would say the most absurd [ __ ] in the world and he never listened to a thing I said uh to the point where I had to tell him he put comma ifbb Pro in his Facebook profile and I had to explain to him that that's not a thing that you could just say but he was like but all my favorite influencers they say that and I'm like yes yes well you see you have to earn that it's like putting PhD after you yeah and he's like well how do I earn it I was like you got to weigh like 100 kilos lean on stage and he's like okay he he was like he he he trained very sporadically and he was like 16 years old he's like how long is it going to take for me to do that and I was like maybe never but years and years and it's was like okay I think like two years I think that's good and I'm like okay it was just just all kinds of [ __ ] wacky [ __ ] like that and that was what bonded you yeah this delusional teenager yeah so we chatted and then she's like hey I got to study for like a medical exam so I can't talk on the internet anymore but I'll be back in a few months and I was like in a few months and then she was back and we started chatting and then we met up in real life and well we were both adults so [ __ ] that's cool yeah it's a trip I uh I talked to her on the phone for the first time like after a few DMs and uh it was uh we spoke all night long like the morning sun came up and we were still on the phone talking I was like yeah okay there's something here [ __ ] him come on then come on then l boy just like that elbows forward yeah perfect pause at the bottom of every rep are we sinking elbows in or keeping elbows high so like elbows this way there whatever you feel okay four sets your first set matches all the others or the subsequent sets match the first set technically yeah because it would be impossible to do it the other way if you can't time travel sure but you get strong enough Chris you can do all time I do not need to follow the flow of Time come on young m [Music] so I didn't realize uh until now that it makes the first set very important yeah uh and I'm usually like ah yeah you know like I'm getting into it I'm I'm putting my foot down I'm starting to think about it yeah well really ramp up on you know set two and three I'm not a big fan of that approach yes because because getting into it should be part of your warm-up sets your first set should be when you have the most energy you work the hardest during your first set and then the other sets you just add on the volume so the first set matters especially in this you're inheriting that first set in a different kind of way toally all right good elbows uh grip in more grip in 2 in there you go good good good [Music] good rack 14 it's the lost count 14 thank [Music] you question uh you're 30 when you meet Crystal 30ish 30 when you meet what would be your future wife had tried to work on game so that you didn't get intimidated when talking to really hot women but you're talking to like a really smart woman that you think has I've never been intimidated by a smart person in my entire life but you're talking to someone that you think has got genuine long-term potential so there's a lot more to risk there and like ah hot chicks a 10 a penny none of it's conscious nothing to risk at all so uh with wristle there was no like [ __ ] hell like I need to zero wow that's amazing so you made to feel very comfortable on a level and you'd already built up that by the time that I talked to her my game was pretty airtight yeah but uh you know it's good good training for when it matters but uh yes I stay ready you don't have to get ready so to speak I was much more intimidated talking to uh super hot girls uh than I was ever intimidated talking to girls who for whom it mattered or intelligent girls one of my factors of intimidation for hot girls is a big contradiction in my brain which is I want to be around you because I want that sweetness between your legs but I don't want to [ __ ] talk to you because you're usually full of [ __ ] Silly Putty and so the idea of like if I'm in a club or a bar talking to girls like number one my thought is I don't want to [ __ ] talk to any of you dumbass [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm gonna talk to you about because I have to it's too loud anyway I can't talk about [ __ ] right and you know I have to and I have to blah blah blah blah blah but uh when talking to Smart girls that can engage intellectually that's my that's my world I know that I know that failing massively also most girls will nerf their intelligence around guys they not intimidate which is profoundly ridiculous but I understand where they're coming from especially given that most guys are [ __ ] sure well most SMART Girls I've written off as not smart because they never came off as smart uh I I used to be told like like in high school people are like uh you know like what what do girls like in a guy and a ton of girls as well as a ton of older people would say intelligence that that's the biggest [ __ ] lie I've ever been told my life what nobody out here likes intelligence what are you [ __ ] kidding me like if if girls liked intelligence I'd be swimming in that [ __ ] from day one I was not now of course like I'm not very facially attractive don't have confidence which is a huge killer I'm not tall so it's like three strikes against me right off hand and the confidence woman is the biggest now when you get some confidence you're in now I'm like relevant and famous and super rich and so like now it's just like [ __ ] press I also don't need it cuz I have a wife but the intelligence thing never I've never met a single girl who I was convinced was actually attracting to intelligence crystal says she is my wife but she also doesn't find my body attractive she's not even into all the muscles she could give think about what int lots of other things are proxies for intelligence humor uh the ability to humor is really a proxy for intelligence I think it's some of the funniest people I've ever [ __ ] met are [ __ ] [ __ ] in certain ways but I think that there's a particular type of humor which can be born out intelligence and incisiveness you not agree maybe sure I just I don't know the space intellectually I don't know if that's true empirically I'm I'm sure smart people can make a a much better Cascades of humor much more observational can put out point out relational patterns analogies and stuff that are humorous but uh usually uh you know that's a kind of that's intelligence but it's not like like what I think girls are attracted to intelligence I think tell them your test scores from college and they like start getting wet I've never seen that transpire a single time money competence yeah yeah I a competence like I don't know if women care about competence they care about where you sort on the social hierarchy um and as long as you're like taller and manlier and you talk to them like this they love that that's for sure true it's by no means clear what else now of course like like guys say they like XYZ and a girl but they really like something else girls say they like XYZ and guys but the evidence from the relationship they pursue is otherwise what a black pill often not always what a [ __ ] black pill let's get it let's get it Chris I don't mean to sound too salty and all that stuff I think a better way to couch it is there are attraction at face value isn't simply an A glomeration or a integration a synthesis of all variables it's a a tiered process and if you pass certain tiers you're welcome to others like like little gates in a lock or something and then you yeah yeah 100% so like if I was going to chat those girls up and I was single uh I'd have to have a way in for them to be like okay yeah and it have to be something it has to be status Renown presence money dress training size arity they've seen me before we did one of these before so then all the other stuff matter so that's one thing that's it like familiarity is super interesting one especially for like the really really black Bel guys out there how many guys that work in an office of some kind end up getting attracted to some chick and they're like she's a strong five I'm just around her a lot and there's something about being around someone a lot that I don't know what the [ __ ] going on sure you go to the same run Club every Saturday you go to the same gym four times a week at the same time and there's that same chick in there sure if she's single and you're single and you're kind of sort of looking yeah there's like this inflationary value that happens you know what I mean local maximum and familiarity is like no one's ever talking about the mate value of it's It's inherently an interpersonal thing as opposed to held by either person individually yes so I think things like humor things like intelligence things like long-term mate value kindness openness in listening they don't get you any attraction points with girls unless you have an outward manifestation of deep status which can be as simple as just ball just confidently put up and she's like o okay all right he's not afraid he's not tucking his tail from other alpha males and so that entry point is huge and it's so like guys who are nerdy kind of shy could be smart super caring super awesome super funny they got Knuck because they don't have just [ __ ] giant balls there almost every [ __ ] in the world if you don't have giant balls the exact analogy here with girls is if you don't look like I can [ __ ] you I'm not trying to [ __ ] you and if you're the best girl in the world you're going to be my best friend and it's going to be real sad you're going to watch a lot of romcom by yourself but if you look like you could get it then are you smart are you intelligent G past that lock fun can I talk to you yeah yep good [ __ ] hi hi mik sweetie steady stream K9 lifting companions you well done by girls good session your hip rust performances inspired me to do better in my own life it was legendary uh what was actually your question no I just wanted do you live in Vegas I don't but uh hard so he's actually on a plane flying over here right now for business meetings and he's watching the game on the plane I would hate to sit next to him if Michigan's L huge pleasure ladies take care some other [ __ ] bye girl is it hot in here or is it just me like literally it's physically hot isn't it it's getting warm now I didn't mean to to say that when the girls left although it's getting they were quite good looking ladies this I'm going to do a set of 30 my my reps of close grp bench okay and I'm going to be in here for a little cuz I'm going to be cranking as soon as I'm done we take these off you get the plates you do a set of 30 as well [Music] God there's so many naked boys here good [ __ ] god oh yeah there's some [ __ ] big dudes are we allowed to pet them or will it bite me always pet them always pet [Music] them see oh okay barbells hit it that is [ __ ] nasty oh boom Oh that's nasty beautiful ah but everybody that's asked what my direct forearm routine is I've never trained yesterday was the first time I've ever directly trained forearms today the second time [Music] [ __ ] oh yeah have to run away from it oh I know all you [ __ ] how many did you get at the first set 12 12 again and you can rest it on that thing careful little slip so you got to kind of hold on to it yeah here we go Chris show off a little bit [Music] bro these [ __ ] this just won't stop yeah you're going to be sore for a little while [ __ ] you need bigger Farms Chris the Lynch pin of the physique the carbs of the arms yes it's a [ __ ] analogy cuz people are like yeah calves don't matter you're like right right right yeah I get a little bit of of uh stick on the internet for standing very still when listening to people or watching them or talking to them and uh I'd never noticed that I did it until someone brought it up on a previous Vlog and I've realized after talking to some friends every club promoter does it because we've spent literal 10,000 hours like this or like this or like this on the front door of a nightclub like largely three poses every so often when I don't when I'm in between I'll be here I have like three to four poses I just don't move because I like trained my [ __ ] physiology to just stand still when people are talking and shit's happening yeah so what are we doing so I can just go first and knock mine out and then you go after and finish the workout okay uh it's uh I do this thing where today I don't focus on shoulders but my shoulders recover quickly and so do most people side delts and so I train my side delts right now in this Mesa cycle every single time I train so this is the end of the workout it's very lightweight but it's a my rep set last time I got 42 so this time it's 45 I just add some reps every time yep 45 to you're going into workout myo rep uh rep progression as opposed to previously with the myio Reps what we've been doing today is do a first set match it you're doing last session corre beat it correct correct that's cool so I'm going to do 45 total and then as soon as I'm done you go and do 45 I do 45 yeah with put the T oh okay yeah yeah yeah yeah that's fair is that cool [ __ ] well I mean probably not but I'll do it I I yes I it will happen I'm not going to say it's cool yeah [Music] yeah [Music] boy oh yeah Beauty Christ that'll do that'll do baby all right darling where you going tonight girls girls yab bombs one pound Jager Bombs God you you've been in the British club scene a long time huh oh man I can drop into degenerate clip promoting mode [ __ ] instantly seconds beautiful technique Chris I get the Sens this maybe a tiny bit light 45 reps Chris you'll be just fine at the top for an extra challenge there you go up a little higher [ __ ] yeah [Music] Chris top pulled at the top there you go control the Ecentric that was perfect you were right that's it man that's the workout good [ __ ] session I got to go and speak to Richard Dawkins on stage later on that'll be a [ __ ] trip uh I appreciate the [ __ ] out you man I love I love what you're doing you know so great so like this era of Fitness I'm so jealous of like gen Alpha there's tons of [ __ ] that J Alpha's got wrong but think about how much more [ __ ] information on the internet was for like Bros only a decade ago only a decade ago yeah the [ __ ] MK Forums on bodybuilding.com desperately trying to find out if blueberry extract and Christian Tibido are going to [ __ ] be able to fix your like side delts yeah so I appreciate you thank you Chris I appreciate the [ __ ] out of you man thanks for featuring and uh we should do this more often something tells me we're going to