Exercise Scientist Critiques Zac Efron's Training And Diuretic Use 

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Conservation biologist here that supports your egg and chicken talk. I physically cannot restrain myself from yapping about it when it comes up so you made me very happy.

Mike actually got versa grips to sponsor him😂😂

Using Albert Hammond JR as a stand in for Efron is surreal. Feel like I’m having a lucid dream.

I've tried to explain the egg thing to many people before. If a person could'nt grasp it I was confident I should'nt involve them in my life. Been working great so far.

congratulations on the versagrip sponsor, it was about time!

Microbiologist and former genetic engineer here. I support your view on the chicken egg question! I'm always reacting the same, when someone brings this topic up!

Holy shit congrats, Mike! I was totally expecting the beginning of the RP hypertrophy app to start playing, but when it was for versa grips that took me off guard! Super happy for you. You earned that sponsorship.

Just switched from tv to my phone so I could compliment your lecture on phylogeny. As an evolutionary biology nerd it made me happy! Love your stuff.

I've noticed that none of these Hollywood "trainers" look like they lift.

I gotta see an Athlean X critique!

What I like most about your videos, is the lack of cutting every 30 seconds like most other youtubers. Thank you very much for that. Oh, and the content is great, too.

Recently discovered this channel and have been integrating your guidance in my workouts, thank you.

My dude finally got that versagrip sponsorship. Congratz. Also, a small tip for the editor, you can use a matching EQ ( something like FabFilter Pro Q has that for instance) to make two recordings from two different microphones/rooms/etc sounds pretty close to each other. So it doesn't sounds as jarring when you switch to an ad segment.

The first time I listened to this channel, I was not cued into the humor at first. Now that I’ve been conditioned, I really enjoy it😂

Excellent video as always! 🙏

I was having a lot of carpal tunnel pain and numbness in my wrists and forearms and I feel like Versa Grips really helped me alleviate that!🙌 They really are a great addition to lifting. Congratulations you deserve that sponsorship!🙌💪

Nice to see Versa Gripps sponsoring! I remember you shouting them out years ago for free

A member of The Strokes demoing the workouts is so fucking random but I kinda love it. Can we have Josh Homme next?

Dr. Mike's critiques always crack me up, keep it coming! :)

one of the best bundles of information i heard in this critique and not because your others are any less informative but because it cleared up some questions i had in my mind at the time

Versa Gripps. We did it boys 💪 Still wishing for an RP Limited Edition Versa Gripps.

Thank god I saw this Murphy guy. Now my abs won’t fly away during my workout, they’ll finally stay in.

As always, great fitness coverage - more of this, please.

Just ordered my versa gripps using your code!! Can’t wait to try them out!

Honestly only found this channel last week and it's such an education and one of my favourite channels👌

I felt your rant about chemicals to the core. I share the same feelings on it.

You are very consistent. It's obv very easy to contradict oneself when providing so much information and feedback on so many different topics and examples without giving long full depth explanations, but you seem to be fast and concise with your responses and somehow avoid potential conflicts or contradictions. Very articulate and this it shows you have not only educated yourself well but have become well practiced in communication. Great content

Absolutely love this channel 100% real

Dr. Mike - Your coaching on slowing down the eccentric phase has boosted my gains bigtime!

As a pedantic chemist, the term "organic" for foods used bother me for exactly the reason Dr. Mike states. Supposedly to qualify as organic, foods have to meet certain qualifications, and I have no clue how well that's regulated/enforced. However, if "organic" means that a food wasn't produced with (and possibly contaminated with) something like Monsanto's cancer-causing glyphosate, then to me, it's a meaningful distinction.

Having just screwed up my shoulder, thanks for the explanation on the external rotation stuff. It'll help me for a bit as I recover but damn, love your content. Insanely informative as to what is actually helpful and what is...gimmicky.

loved the chemicals mini-rant. and the egg/chicken rant. just top shelf stuff, please keep it up

Wow. 7/10 for that has to be one of the most generous scores I’ve seen on this channel.

THANK YOU! I have been pro EGG for years!

After watching this channel for a week non stop… downloaded the app. Well done. Ya got me

Your videos never disappoint. Thumbs up 👍👍

In America "Organic foods" means that the food was produced under a stricter set of regulations. In some cases this means less fertilizers or pesticides, and usually means the food was produced with a reduced environmental impact. It's not meaningless, it just doesn't mean healthy like some people like to think.

Grz for the versagrip sponsorship mike💪

Excellent information. Thank you.

As a chemist thank you for the rant at 18:47 🙏

I want a critique of Zacs jawline though

Glad to hear you say that about the rotation shoulder 'warm ups' I've always seen everyone doing them in the gym as well as on youtube and always wondered why as it seems to do nothing. Ive had / still have a dodgy right shoulder yet still found no benefit to doing them. Like you pointed out, I've always just warmed up using excercise specific warm up, ie for bench my warm up is just going through the movement over and over with just the bar

your delivery of humor is De Lish Ous and appreciate your practical knowledge

We need more critiques by Dr. Mike. Freaking cracks me up the way he unabashedly reacts, then follows it up with a profound, scientific diatribe that's full of amazing insight and truth 😆 Love it -- keep up the great work!!!

Loving these vids. LOVING them. They are eggcellent.

I'm so happy Dr. Mike mentioned this nerdland explanation of the chicken or the egg conundrum! I've been saying that for years!!!!!

I'm very proud of you for getting the versagrip sponsorship

I'm glad I snagged my versa gripps but that 15% off woulda been nice!! Congratulations!

so happy you ginally got the versa gripp sponsorship well done

I thoroughly enjoy your videos

This video is amazing!

I bought Versa grips because of this channel months ago and absolutely love them.

The gym, eating, muscles, and your videos are the only things that get me through the day..

Thanks for pointing out the organic point, I had a debate class in HS that put me on that point and it hasn’t left my head since…8 years later

The comment about external rotation is TRUE. I ONLY do it, because I had "snapping scapula syndrome" and needed months of physical therapy. So, I do it as part of my PT exercises, on recovery days. Anyway, congrats on the VersaGripp sponsorship!!!

Dr. Mike recommends a useful thing that he has been recommending for years and is fully credible. Quite differently from podcasters who sometimes come across as endorsing and suddenly everyone loves the same drinks, electrolytes, and other nonsense simultaneously.

Grats on finally getting Versagrip on board.

I just love these videos man :)

Been using Versa Gripps for 7 years... Love um 💪🏼

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Congrats on the sponsorship maaaan! Versa grips 🔥🔥🔥

How did it take me so long to find these videos?! Thank you, Dr. Mike, for the incredible exercise science knowledge AND for the comedy! 😂 Love it! 🙌👏

I cant wait!!! And i really do hope you score a gig to train a celebrity for a role Doc! Keep on the grind they will notoce eventually

Like two legends said "Stay deep Stay hard" David goggins x Dr mike

I would love to see your take on Rob McElhenney’s body transformation. His “easy” equation for getting into hollywood shape is the best I’ve ever heard. Have a personal trainer + personal chef + no work obligations + no family obligations = easy hollywood body transformation

Loved you on the boyscast!

Dr Mike is such a smart arse!!!...... and it's amazing! Really enjoy content

Here's the argument against the phylogenetic argument that the egg came first: 1. Species-concepts are vague in phylogeny. When a population becomes reproductively isolated, you have species-branching. But the concept of becoming reproductively isolated is vague: How long does there have to be no shared reproduction between groups? How much reproductive isolation is needed before the two populations are distinct species? 2. Vagueness is metaphysical, not epistemological. It's in nature, not our minds. It's not that it's just hard to tell when exactly two species branch off. Rather, there's no fact of the matter, just like there's no exact pair of colors that mark the boundary between red and red-orange. All that you can say is that there are paradigms cases of red, paradigm cases of red-orange, and borderline cases where there are shades that fit uncomfortably between the two. 3. Therefore, there was no first chicken. All you can say is that there were paradigm cases of proto-chickens, paradigm cases of chickens, and borderline cases between them. 4. Since there was no first chicken, there was no first chicken egg. So the question is ill-formed. Neither answer makes sense.

So Physical Therapist here. If you do have a shoulder injury, may want to do something such as body blade for a warm up of dynamic stabilizers regarding rotator cuff. As stated in video: this will not enhance lift itself but good way to prime rotator cuff to prevent further injury

Love your content and have been enjoying it and learning from it for some time now. The background is peaceful and much more welcoming than the dark void you used to use. However, is that a Shake Weight on the shelf behind you? Well, practice makes perfect. Peace!

Totally on board with the egg dna combination. Great seeing the Versagrip sponsor too!

I came to the comments to answer the chicken vs egg debate, but Dr. Mike beat me to it. So I just came.

I knew I was right about the "egg and the chicken" conversation, my belief was that evolution takes too long for a supposed "proto-chicken" to evolve into an actual chicken during it's lifetime. What makes more since is that these proto-chickens evolved more and more until eventually one of them laid an egg that had the very first chicken inside. I know little to nothing about evolution or biology outside of what I learned in high school, this just made sense to me.

LET'S GOOOOO! VERSA GRIPS!!!!!! Mike finally made it, we big timers now baby 😭

Love your videos!

Holy he shit he finally got the VersaGrip sponsorship!!!!

i'm an ecologist, and yes, the way he explained it is actually right. in that sense it would be the egg.

I been watching your videos for awhile and I'm just now realizing I'm not even subscribed...I am now a full-time subscriber. My apologies

You won’t see this but on the off chance you do, love your sense of humour dude, it’s very dry, innuendo and dark.. very British.. I love it. Keep it up!

I made it in the versa grips ad, where's my cut Dr. Mike?

I hope you have the biggest workout with the most Super Saiyan pump of all time today in honor of Toriyama. RIP to the realest one

Just watched the Zac Efron and Geoff Stults workout video and they hit on some eccentric overloading exercises that I wish Dr Mike had talked about.

I bought my versa grips after your advice 😅😊 greetings from Norway!

You're a natural on camera, keep shining!

As a biological anthropologist, I am here to support Dr. Mike's chicken and egg claims. Waiting so long for someone to say it!!

Loved seeing Dr. Mike on The BoysCast.

Love my VersaGrips. Thinking about the knee sleeves too.

I really like Dr. Mikes stuff. Organic food does have set standards from the USDA, doesn't mean the food is inherently better, but meets a higher standard of production.

Postgrad marine biologist with a Zooogy BSc and Biological Sciences MSc checking in just to confirm Mikes phylogenetic tangent is on point.

I was hoping you were going to talk about Efron's transformation he did for his recent movie role where he played a professional wrestler. That transformation is unreal. You showed a picture of him from that movie but only talked about his transformation for Baywatch, which came out many years ago. Maybe do a follow up video about his most recent transformation? In other news, I ordered my Versa Gripps today! Thanks for the discount code!

I agree with pretty much everything you say dr Mike. But something I do is the rotator cuff warmup. Did them wrong for years but fixed that. And now I've given it some thought. The way I see it, when I've done the 75s and want to do the 90s, and I have a tense burning sensation, doing the rotator cuff exercise really loosens me up for my heaviest set. And ima keep doing it for my warmup because I'll stay accustomed to doing this exercise atleast 2/3 times a week and it'll remain effortless

Listening to you mention you only need to warm up a previously injured body part (a little more) makes me realize I should warm up my left side after I injured it biking a few years ago... And that is something I don't do... Which actually hurts my lunges and hurts my knee because my left glute isn't working the way it should be.. Thanks for the puzzle piece!

Been wathcing your videos for a while, and this is the first time I've been driven to comment - YES, the EGG! Thank you for talking about this. Also, keep up the great work.

Dr. Mike, just started watching! Love the videos! Do you have any videos addressing "feeder workouts"?

Love watching these videos and all dr mikes so funny bro lol

Mike's info has been a huge help to me. I employ almost every principle he promotes, and I've made great progress. Only thing he fucked me on were the Versa Gripps. Bought them based on his glowing recommendation. They suck balls compared to straps

Wow. You were coming on strong today. Your opener caught my eye with the exercise critique. I let you buy me a drink with the chicken/egg rant. I bought you a drink when you spat wisdom on organics/processed foods. Finally, we headed up to my room as you whispered in my ear about chemicals. 🥵

Not only has RP-style training increased my gains, but Mike also knows the real chicken vs egg lore. As a student in genetics, I am very happy.

I have a separated AC joint, that was never re-set, and external rotations actually hurt. I bench over 365 and my warmup is bench dumbells with 90s and it feels great. As I come down, my shoulders rotate about 30° and gets the joints limber and warm for when I rest on the chest between bench press reps.