#128 Naomi & Tom Sheppard | TOP UK TOTAL | #1 RANKED POWERLIFTER
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Naomi and Tom Sheppard join Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast as guests in the 128th episode.
British powerlifter and elitefts athlete Naomi Sheppard, who competes in the 67.5-kilogram class in the raw with wraps division, locked out an all-time world record squat with 262.5 kilograms (578.7 pounds) on the barbell in Miami, FL, this past February at the 2022 WRPF The Ghost Clash. Naomi ranks #1 of all time (pound for pound) in all divisions in the UK. She ranks #18 worldwide. A few weeks out of the American Pro (July 29), Naomi will be competing Day 1 in the 67.5 KG class. Sheppard's most notable win came at the 2018 WPC World Championships at age 27. She was also the WPC European Champion three consecutive times from 2015 to 2017.
Tom Sheppard is a UK-based strength coach and competitive powerlifter. His coaching career began as an strength and conditioning coach at the University of St. Andrews. As a competitor, Tom broke European and World Records as a Junior and now runs a large UK-based powerlifting team. Owner of Phoenix Performance, Tom and Naomi offers seminars internationally. He has written articles for elitefts, T-Nation, and Thibarmy.
Today's topics include:
-Naomi and Tom's path in strength sports
-The athletes they coach
-Raw and multiply powerlifting
-The squat
-Training as therapy
-The difference between the UK and the USA in sport
-What's required to make it to the highest level
-Tom's history with anorexia
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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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| 0:00.0 | EliteFTS.com, founded in 1998 with the primary aim to live, learn, and pass on. |
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| 0:11.1 | sharing with a friend, and thinking of us for your training needs. |
| 0:14.2 | If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it. |
| 0:18.5 | What's going on? I'm Dave Tate. We are broadcasting from the middle of the |
| 0:21.7 | Elite FTS wait room where the underground still thrives and you're part of the crew. It's time to |
| 0:26.3 | sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:37.1 | What's going on? This is Dave Tate, and this is episode 128. This is another full-length episode |
| 0:43.0 | where my guests are going to be or are, not going to be, you know, Naomi and Tom Shepard. |
| 0:48.8 | But before I get into that, I want to thank our sponsor of the show today, which is big-ass fans. |
| 1:13.7 | Let me tell you first off how this kind of all worked out is if you guys have a warehouse gym or any type of gym and you're trying to lower the temperature because it gets hot as fuck in the summertime like it is here. And it was ridiculous about a month ago. And we have the giant big ass fans in the warehouse, |
| 1:17.6 | and I can justify the cost there because they're expensive as hell. |
| 1:21.6 | But I can never justify putting them in the gym. |
| 1:24.1 | So because of the podcast, |
| 1:28.6 | we're trying to figure out how to not die out here under the lights when it's really, really hot. It's kind of bad now, but it gets way worse. So I started looking at |
| 1:34.1 | different fan options and asking people what they recommended. And, you know, big ass fans |
| 1:39.6 | kept coming up. So I bit the bullet and I bought one of their sidekicks, which is 25, 200, something like that, |
| 1:47.9 | which I know what everybody thinks because it's what I thought for probably 15 years. I'm not |
| 1:52.9 | going to pay that for a fan when I can go buy a barn fan for 450 bucks, which I have one, two, |
| 1:59.9 | three, four, like six or seven of them out here, |
| 2:02.1 | which has been replaced six or seven times over the last 15 years. |
| 2:06.0 | And after plugging the sidekick in the first time, I was so pissed at myself. |
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