#131 Ed Coan | The Legend (#1 Ranked Power Lifter '84-'04)
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Ed Coan joins Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast as a guest in the 131st episode. Ed Coan is regarded as the greatest powerlifter of all time.
Throughout his active powerlifting career (including international meets), Ed Coan has set over 71 world records. He became the lightest person at 220 pounds to cross the 2,400-pound total barrier and set an all-time powerlifting record total at 2,463 pounds (1019 squat, 584 bench, and 901 deadlift).
Ed Coan will be presenting at the elitefts SWIS Symposium 2022.
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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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought 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? |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Dave Tate. |
| 0:24.8 | We are broadcasting from the middle of the Elite FTS weight room, |
| 0:27.7 | 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. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you. the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. What's going on, guys. Our guest today is Eddie Cohn, and we have a lot to talk about. |
| 0:49.0 | Before we get into that, I want to thank our sponsors. Our sponsors for today's episode are Merrickhealth.com. |
| 0:56.3 | They are a premier telehealth platform specializing in hormone optimization and preventative |
| 1:01.7 | medicine. They have two tracks that you can run. You can either go with a self-service track |
| 1:07.0 | where you can get your own labs. They're going to be sent to you and then you can review them |
| 1:10.9 | with your primary care physician yourself or whoever you're going to help do that we have labs |
| 1:16.2 | set up for you through americhealth.com backslash table talk if you don't know what to even start with |
| 1:22.9 | or where to go the second route that they have is guided optimization where they will put you in touch |
| 1:28.8 | with a patient care coordinator. This is what I would recommend for most people who ask me |
| 1:34.8 | about Merrick Health that ask me about hormone optimization, that ask me about even basic |
| 1:39.6 | supplementation. When they put you in touch with the patient care coordinator, they'll help you |
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