Dave Tate's Table Talk

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#451 "Top-Line Revenue Is A Lie" — The Real Profit Breakdown For Gyms | Andy McCloy

Most Gyms Don't Fail Because of Rent. They Fail Because Coaches Don't Understand Business. Most gyms don't close because of rising rent. They go under because passionate

Oct 26
2 h 07 min

#450 Stop Getting MRIs For Low Back Pain (Do This Instead) | Dr. Justin Farnsworth

#26 trending · Fitness

The Most Powerful Rehabilitation Tool Isn't an Exercise—It's Changing How You Think About Pain. The most powerful rehabilitation tool isn't a complex exercise sequence or

Oct 19
2 h 41 min

#449 Why 90% of Lifters Pick the Wrong Weight on Game Day | Matt Gary

Most lifters don't lose a meet on strength; they lose it on ego, bad math, and missing their first attempt. After three decades inside elite powerlifting—from coaching mu

Oct 15
2 h 32 min

#448 Why I Banned Headphones in My Gym | Jason Manenkoff

Building a Gym from Scratch, Real Estate Landmines, and Why Most Lifters Are Training for Instagram Instead of Real Strength He built a thriving facility with $10,000, ze

Oct 12
2 h 06 min

#447 "F*ck Your Micronutrients" | Anthony Oliveira & Roman Mustaccio

"We're worried about micronutrients. You missed two training sessions this week. F*ck your micronutrients." Long before Anthony Oliveira squatted an all-time 1,074-pound

Oct 5
2 h 31 min

#446 You Don't Need a Periodized Program | Guillermo Blanco

You do not need a periodized plan to build high-level performance. Guillermo Blanco started lifting in eighth grade before moving through Division I football programs, co

Oct 1
2 h 28 min

#445 Why Olympic Lifting Still Belongs in Football (Despite the Haters) | Evan Barr

Most strength coaches build athletes by the book, but the ones who actually build champions learn that true physical development begins long before anyone ever touches a

Sep 28
1 h 55 min

#444 You're Not Overtrained (You're Overstimulated) | Steve Denovi

Stop turning your lifters into data-obsessed overthinkers who melt down the second a $10 velocity app tells them the bar moved 0.02 meters per second too slow. Most moder

Sep 21
2 h 17 min

#443 25 Years a Personal Trainer: Why You're Still Broke | Charles Gardner

Most personal trainers fail because they master the mechanics of exercise but completely ignore the high-stakes psychology of holding a client's trust. Personal training

Sep 17
2 h 09 min

#442 You Are Recovering From Training That Didn't Even Happen | Dr. Mike T Nelson

Most recovery protocols are actively killing your strength gains because you haven't trained hard enough to earn them. Dr. Mike T. Nelson's path to elite performance didn

Sep 14
2 h 33 min

#441 I Squatted 1,000 lbs, Then My Entire Life Collapsed | Patrick Maguire

"I've squatted 1,000 pounds more times than I've successfully asked out a female." Most superheavyweight powerlifters hide their rock-bottom moments behind PR reels, but

Sep 7
2 h 16 min

#440 The Medical Lie Keeping Strength Athletes Injured | Dr. Christopher Marvin

Most strength athletes aren't broken—they're just loading flawed mechanics until something snaps. Dr. Christopher "Marv" Marvin came back from nine surgeries, a wrist inj

Sep 3
2 h 23 min

#439 How 47 Football Players Hit 20+ MPH in One Off-Season | Mark Uptegraff

Most coaches fail their athletes long before an injury ever occurs because they train muscles for show while completely neglecting the structural integrity of the joints.

Aug 31
2 h 33 min

#438 Why Powerlifters Die Young (Fix Your Work Capacity) | Jason Brown

The myth that aerobic conditioning steals your strength is the exact reason most experienced lifters hit an early plateau and stay chronically beat up. From running high-

Aug 24
2 h 00 min

#437 I Ignored My Surgeon's Rehab Protocol | Josh Hendrickson

Standard medical advice after a catastrophic muscle tear will turn a high-performance lifter into a spectator if you blindly follow it. Four months after snapping his bic

Aug 17
1 h 59 min

#436 Why You Should Never Bodybuild | Ben Mayfield-Smith

Most lifters suffer through brutal competition preps not because they lack discipline, but because they are using a physical outcome to mask a broken identity. After a ca

Aug 13
2 h 12 min

#435 Why 90% of Hardcore Gym Owners Fail | Chandler Parsons

Choosing between athlete, coach, and gym owner is the only way to avoid burning out—you can only pick two. After 20 years under the barbell and totaling 2,044 raw, Chandl

Aug 10
2 h 42 min

#434 Why Most Lifters Over 30 Are Destined To Break| Mark Valenti

Stop chasing cheap metrics in your youth only to end up a broken, thirty-five-year-old former athlete who doesn't even know how to properly brace. When high school geomet

Aug 3
2 h 08 min

#433 Stop Buying Biohacks Until You Fix Your Training | Anthony Castore

An 185-pound frame earned in the trenches taught Anthony Castore that no protocol can out-discipline a broken foundation. From a 117-pound teenager asking too many questi

Jul 30
2 h 19 min

#432 Your Heavy Squat Is Actually Fake Strength | Brian Bott

If you train high school athletes like Division I pros, you are destroying their potential. For 13 years at Wisconsin, Brian Bott built NFL offensive linemen and Rose Bow

Jul 27
2 h 18 min

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Fantastic podcast covering it all in the field of Strength. Dave is an amazing interviewer asking questions that always lead the show into something interesting.

Ve$hny · Jan 2024

I’ve followed Dave’s business and lifting career for 25 years. He spoke to me on the phone when I was trying to figure out how to move from PL to strongman in the late 90’s. I am in that silent majority who is still listening, grinding, learning to train… thank you Dave! I’m 40 years under the bar and I’m still learning.

scottwhall · Apr 2023

I don’t listen to each episode as it comes out, nor do I listen to all episodes. I doubt few do. I do listen as I have time and do TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN TO VERY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE EXPLAIN WHAT THEY THINK MADE THEM SUCCESSFUL. There is a wider breadth of information here than just POWERLIFTING LEGENDS and their training philosophies. The show on Autism and letter boards might sound far afield for Table Talk, but it remains one of the more impactful and educational for me personally. A lot of podcasts in this genre put out content on a schedule, and if that content is of little more value than bad morning radio, so be it. You don’t get that here. The guests are top notch and the discussions are educational.

rondave72 · Nov 2022

My favorite part is the diversity of people Dave interviews on the podcast, ranging from old Westside guys, competitive strongman or bodybuilders, to current strength & conditioning coaches. The podcast gives a lot of variety so that you know you are getting unbiased knowledge, first hand, from a wide range of sources! Unrelated to the podcast itself. After hearing about Marek Health and frankly fast forwarding through the “commercial” a handful of times, I finally decided to check them out and the Table Talk panel is BY FAR the most comprehensive panel I have ever seen and is significantly more thorough than anything my doctor has ever ordered. As I get older the concept of hormone optimization and longevity is becoming more important and I just ordered my labs with Marek Health to start their guided process. Great podcast, and true to Dave’s motto of life learn and pass on!

matt_kaas · Nov 2022

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