WATCH: Westside History with Mark Bell and Dave Tate
Training goals after powerlifting, quality time with children, training at Westside, leaving Westside, thoughts on training methods, the purpose of life, the challenges of being a mentor, and more — all in this video.
WATCH: Table Talk with Dan Green — How to Choose Secondary and Accessory...
A good training program has three main parts: the main lifts for technique, the secondary movements for strength, and the accessory exercises for muscle-specific work.
John Meadows Full UGSS Presentation
Here is John Meadows full presentation from the elitefts UGSS event where John was the featured guest.
WATCH: Table Talk with Dan Green — Powerlifting Longevity and Meet Strategy
A lot of strong lifters have come and gone through this sport, posting two or three big totals to then never to be heard from again. The best lifters are there, year after year, finding new ways to stay healthy enough and hit PRs. How?
Then and Now, Now and Then
These, Then and Now's, represent the far ends of each spectrum allowing everyone to see the humor in what we do or may not have done.
Powerlifting: The Greatest Sport in the World
A short list of why Powerifting is the World's Greatest Sport.
WATCH: Mark Bell Interviews Dave Tate on Westside History
Mark Bell and crew stopped out the week of the Arnold Classic and captured this footage. It's been a long time since I saw Mark so it was great to catch up.
WATCH: Table Talk with Dan Green — Adrenaline Levels in Training
How do you get your mind in the right place for a big lift in training? Should you treat it like meet day?
WATCH: Table Talk with Dan Green — Keeping the Endgame in Mind During th...
If you're forced to take time away from the gym, where should your focus be? Maintaining strength? Maintaining size? Getting healthy?
This lift is needed to stay in the meet!
WTF! I just pulled a sample entry form and calculated how many first places finishes there could be if you look at all the divisions and weight classes. In a meet with a 70 lifter cut off, there could be over 66,000 first place finishers.
Why 48 Is Great!
If you follow Elitefts.com, you know about Make-A-Wish. We have been an avid supporter of what they do since 2009, and have partnered with them in several capacities, some you have no idea about until now.
WATCH: Table Talk with Dan Green — Limiting Factors for Beginner, Interm...
What holds you back as a beginner is not going to be the same as what holds you back once you reach the intermediate or advanced stages.
Things Lifters Must Understand
If you do go there and get pissed at what someone else wrote, then it’s not their fault you're pissed. It’s your fault for reading it in the first place.
Days Gone Forward
Sometimes it's good to go back and walk the path of days gone by. It's humbling and keeps you in touch with how far you've come and how close you've stayed the course. I was reminded of things I believed then and still do now. Grassroots values always hold true.
2017 Sports Performance Summit — Dave Tate Speaks
You may have heard or read a few things about Dave's second hip replacement and the PRs that led to his surgery, but no one has heard the full story. Until now.
700 Pound Raw Bench Press - Larry Allen - Hall of Famer
This never gets old. Big weights, ammonia snorting, bench diving, yelling, spotting and they put the damn weights away.
Jim Wendler & Dave Tate Complete Off Topic Playlist
For your convenience here is the entire "Off Topic" Table Talk discussion with Jim Wendler.
WATCH: Table Talk with Dan Green — Building a Base as a New Lifter
If you don't start on the right path, you might spend years training hard and making no progress.
WATCH: Table Talk with Nate Harvey — Why Do Football Players Run Long Sp...
The easy answer is that it builds mental toughness. The strength and conditioning answer, however, involves understanding the differences between lactic acid, glycolytic, and oxidative work.
WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — How to Balance Training with a Phy...
You can control the physical demands placed on your body in the gym, but you can't always control what happens outside of it. How can you ensure you're recovered and in an optimal state once its time to train?
Louie Simmons
When I talk and write about "passing on" knowledge and information from those who helped me, Louie comes to mind every time. I would not be what I am today without the help, support, and aggression of Louie Simmons and the crew I trained with over the 14 years I was there.
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On the mend... another hip replacement pt. 2
The next STEP in my hip replacement journey, pun intended.
WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — Should I Hire A Bodybuilding Coach?
It may be tempting to put your entire trust in someone with experience, but there are a few things to consider first.
The Pursuit of Elite
Surrounding myself around top-level powerlifters for over 30 years, I've noticed a trend.
20 Most Popular Training Methods of 2016
The results are in! The 20 Most Popular Training Methods of 2016. How many of you use online trainers and what are you training for?
Sometimes You Have To Do - What You Have To Do
Are you on the diet? Is it time to eat? Are you eating the right thing?
Are you training? Are you training hard? Are you doing what you are suppose to do?
Or something you want to do? Are you really doing it? Or just trying?
Is that supposed to be fun or are you blowing off your job? Is that work you really need to do? Or just a reason to blow off your family? Are you doing what you have to do?
WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — What Makes You Beginner, Intermedi...
Number of competitions? Severity of injury? Conditioning and size? Powerlifting total?
WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — Training Evolution and the Genetic...
Do genetic ceilings exist? How can you know if you've reached yours? Is it possible to break through?
WATCH: Table Talk with Mark Dugdale — Exercise Execution, Pre-Workout Fo...
Mark and Dave share their combined knowledge in both powerlifting and bodybuilding, gained from multiple decades honing their respective crafts.
On the mend... another hip replacement.
I haven't posted much about my training for almost a year now. When I get back to 100% I will post a summary of my 2016 training: what I did and why.
WATCH: Rapid Fire Table Talk — Westside Before Bands, Programming By Gen...
Looking for an unconventional use for bands?
WATCH: Rapid Fire Table Talk — Military Press for Powerlifters, Grip, an...
Have you ever eaten an entire box of Pop-Tarts in one sitting?
Elitefts Sports Performance Summit - Feb 25th, 2017
Feedback from past events include;97% would come again, every presenter had average rating of “excellent” and 95% said this summit was worth equal to or more than their investment. Learn more about our Feb 25th event...
5 Traits of Successful Lifters
I've been working with and around elite powerlifters for over 30 years. Throughout this time, I have noticed particular traits I've been able to attribute to the success of elite-level lifters. Traits that separate those at the top-level from those who can never quite make it.
WATCH: Rapid Fire Table Talk — The Blown-Out Bench Shirt, Box Depth, and...
Reading directly from Instagram with no preparation, Dave answers 14 more questions on training, nutrition, and improving performance.
When The F**k Did Practical Experience Stop Mattering?
If you think I am wrong, stick around for another five years and look back on what you know then from what you know now then and tell me I'm wrong.
Why just be jacked when you can also be the hammer?
I first met John Welbourn at a seminar in 2009. He wasn't a dickhead so I liked him. Off and on we've stayed in touch over the years. A retired professional athlete, kinda beat up, surgeries, injuries from doing stupid shit, passion to help others, still kind of does stupid shit, stays involved with Strength and Conditioning and still likes doing some stupid shit (oh, I already said that). What's not to like right?
9 Seminar Video Clips From 2009
These videos are from a seminar I did for Crossfit HQ sometime in 2009
Win Free Elitefts UGSS with Special Guest Mark Dugdale, Jan 14th 2017
Win Free Elitefts UGSS with Special Guest Mark Dugdale
Win Free Elitefts UGSS with Special Guest Mark Dugdale Jan 14, 2017
Win Free Elitefts UGSS with Special Guest Mark Dugdale
WATCH: Rapid Fire Table Talk — Training at Night, 3x10 vs 10x3, and Illness
Dave's back at The Table, and this time he's answering your questions back-to-back with no preparation.
Dave Tate 2.0 – PT Prophet Podcast Episode 120 // Hosted by Hayden Wilson
Dave Tate 2.0 – PT Prophet Podcast Episode 120 // Hosted by Hayden Wilson
I Lost My Confidence
The crap he took for this was unbelievable, sometimes joking, sometimes serious because who does that? Make up a lie! Say you tore your hamstring, but don't tell us that!
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