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Dave Tate's Table Talk

#122 All-Time Highest Total World Record Holder Dave Hoff!

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9 • 587 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

In this 122nd podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk, Dave Hoff takes a seat.

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Dave Hoff holds the all-time highest powerlifting total—dominating multi-ply for over a decade. As a four-time World Powerlifting Organization (WPO) champion, his best multi-ply lifts include a 1273-pound squat, 1047-pound bench, and an 826-pound deadlift, for a total of 3103 pounds. Featured in the Westside vs The World documentary, Dave was a member of Westside Barbell. 

Today's topics include:

  • Hoff's lifting journey (Day 1 to present day)
  • His time at Westside and transitioning out
  • Hoff's lack of social media presence
  • Programming
  • How often Hoff is in gear
  • The mental aspect to multi-ply powerlifting to stay on top for 13 years (and counting)
  • And much more! 

About the Host

Dave Tate is the founder and co-owner of elitefts.com. He is the author of twenty books and has logged more than 40,000 hours of training and consulting. Dave is married to elitefts co-owner Traci Arnold-Tate, and they reside in London, Ohio, with their two sons. Personal Credo: Live, Learn, Pass on™.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's episode is brought to you by EliteFTS.com, founded in 1998 with the primary aim to live,

0:09.2

learn, and pass on.

0:11.4

Please help EliteFTS support this mission by smashing the like button, leaving a comment,

0:16.0

sharing with a friend, and thinking of us for your training needs.

0:19.1

If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it.

0:23.2

What's going on? I'm Dave Tate.

0:24.8

We are broadcasting from the middle of the Elite FTS weight room

0:27.5

where the underground still thrives and you're part of the crew.

0:30.5

It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.

0:34.1

Welcome to Table Talk.

0:42.7

Thank you. the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. What's going on, guys? We are back with episode 122. This episode is sponsored by Merrickhealth.com.

0:50.9

Again, if you've been following the podcast, Merrick is a telehealth platform specializing in hormone

0:57.6

optimization and preventative medicine to give you guys an update that have been following around

1:02.6

with the journey that i've been on with them they they have two options one is just running your

1:07.9

labs then you'll take your labs and bring them to your doctor, analyze them however you want.

1:13.6

Pretty much how most people do now.

1:16.6

Then they have another one to where they will assign you a patient care coordinator.

1:20.6

The patient care coordinator will help you determine what labs to run.

1:23.6

They'll meet with you, they'll give you suggestions. And then after speaking to them,

1:28.5

they will, you'll then have a meeting with the physician or attending physician or physician

1:34.1

practitioner, whoever specializes in the hormone optimization. That happened this past weekend.

1:39.7

And I told you guys, I keep you up to date kind of how on this, how this works. If you've been

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