Are you sick of "fitness influencers," training fads, and crappy advice that barely applies inside the gym or on the field? Then sit down with elitefts CEO Dave Tate as he interviews the strongest & smartest minds across the strength sports community to talk real, hardcore training, business, life, and more. If you're looking for real, applicable information on all things training, join the crew.
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elitefts.com hosts Dave Tate's Table Talk, a health show with 300 episodes published.
#437 I Ignored My Surgeon's Rehab Protocol | Josh Hendrickson
Aug 17, 20261h 59m
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 bicep off the bone on an axle clean, National Champio
#436 Why You Should Never Bodybuild | Ben Mayfield-Smith
Aug 13, 20262h 12m
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 career-ending rugby injury shattered his athletic dr
#435 You Can Only Pick Two: Owner, Coach, or Athlete | Chandler Parsons
Aug 10, 20262h 42m
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, Chandler Parsons realized that chasing elite performance
#434 You're Still Training Like A 17-Year-Old | Mark Valenti
Aug 3, 20262h 8m
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 geometry teachers double as strength coaches, young lift
#433 Stop Buying Biohacks Until You Fix Your Training | Anthony Castore
Jul 30, 20262h 19m
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 questions to a Fellow at the Seeds Scientific Research &
#432 Your Heavy Squat Is Actually Fake Strength | Brian Bott
Jul 27, 20262h 18m
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 Bowl champions using old-school grit—only to realize
#431 To Fix Your Body, You Have to Destroy Your Identity | Ben Pollack
Jul 20, 20262h 29m
To survive the brutal reality of elite-level strength, you might have to destroy the very person you spent a lifetime building. Ben Pollack earned a PhD in physical culture history while systematically destroying his own
#430 Why "Bought Fitness" Will Never Make You Strong | Daniella Means, Kailey Latimer, & Lu Faustin
Jul 16, 20262h 13m
You can buy fat loss with an injection, but you cannot fake the raw, violent physical capability required to survive when the lights turn on and the floor turns into a warzone. Before stepping under the Hollywood lights
#429 I Ignored My Surgeon's Warning (And Benched 435lbs Anyway) | Jordan Wong
Jul 13, 20262h 28m
The worst thing that can happen to an elite bencher might be the exact psychological reset needed to save their career. Before Jordan Wong could break all-time world squat records and scale a massive commercial gym facil
#428 Stop Training Athletes Like They're Good at Lifting | Lucas White
Jul 6, 20262h 24m
"Your skill set's not going to be lifting weights—it's going to be the sport, but you still have to learn how to strain." For thirteen seasons, including eleven in the collegiate trenches, Lucas White has survived the br
#427 The Trap of the 300-Pound Power Clean | Monte Sparkman
Jul 2, 20262h 35m
Most high school strength coaches are hiding behind a rigid workout template because they are terrified of what happens when the plan fails on the weight room floor. For Monte Sparkman, fifteen years of building elite te
#426 What Powerlifting Judges See (But Never Tell You) | Valerie Smith
Jun 29, 20262h 14m
You aren't truly learning how to lift until someone forces you to pull the slack out of a stiff bar with an opener that's completely out of your league. For multi-time world champion Valerie Smith, transitioning from a d
#425 We've Broken Our Natural Hormones to Survive the Modern World | Mike Stratton
Jun 22, 20261h 52m
Your body naturally produces testosterone, but it doesn't make the gallons of coffee you are using to survive a modern, unsustainable lifestyle. Mike Stratton built a multi-million dollar health optimization empire from
#424 You Learn More From One Loss Than 100 Wins | Phil Daru
Jun 18, 20262h 25m
Most people think discipline is about pushing harder, but Phil Daru argues that real growth begins the moment failure exposes the flaws in your plan. From coaching UFC champions and elite performers to nearly destroying
#422 The Barbell Giveth, and the Barbell Taketh Away | Jim Wendler, Matt Rhodes, & Vincent Dizenzo
Jun 11, 20261h 32m0
If you think your current training routine is built for longevity, you are lying to yourself about what decades under a heavy barbell actually does to the human frame. For over twenty years, Jim Wendler, Matt Rhodes, and
#421 Why Most Dedicated Lifters Crash Out Outside the Gym | Marcellus Williams
Jun 8, 20262h 44m0
The illusion of world-class strength is built on rigid programming—but the truth is that strict protocols are often what cause elite lifters to plateau or break. Long before he was known as The Swolefessor, Marcellus Wil
#419 Do ONLY These 3 Exercises for the First 5 Years | Dr. Ian Butcher
Jun 1, 20262h 12m0
Stop majoring in the minors and trying to fine-tune a physique or training split you haven't even earned the right to optimize yet. Dr. Ian Butcher runs four distinct brick-and-mortar health and fitness businesses in the
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