Israetel: Mainstream fitness coaching relies on mysticism over scientific rigor
Dr. Mike Israetel · Exercise Scientist: How AI & “Miracle Drugs” Can Make You Superhuman · Joe Lonsdale · Mar 14, 2025 · at 2:25
Dr. Mike Israetel explains why he co-founded Renaissance Periodization to bring data-driven, evidence-based training methods to the fitness industry.
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“A lot of our clients were super sharp, well-educated people, and very well-intentioned in trying to optimize how their health was, how their appearances were, so on and so forth. And a lot of the advice they were getting were from folks that weren't going about it in a rigorous scientific manner. Basically, like mysticism, tradition, the whole thing, like, just do this because it works.”
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