#132 Luke Edwards | 5x Pro Totaling
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 160 minutes
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Luke Edwards joins Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast as a guest in the 132nd episode.
Luke Edwards is a Westside Barbell member and Westside Barbell certified. He is one of four lifters to have a pro total in five different weight classes. He earned his last two pro totals at his lightest competition body weight. Luke has undergone two kidney transplants (earning another pro total afterward) as a result of a genetic disease Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis.
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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 | Today's episode is brought you by EliteFTS.com, founded in 1998 with the primary aim to live, learn, and pass on. |
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| 0:19.4 | If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it. |
| 0:23.6 | What's going on? |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Dave Tate. |
| 0:25.2 | We are broadcasting from the middle of the Elite FTS weight room where the underground still |
| 0:29.1 | thrives and you're part of the crew. |
| 0:31.0 | It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:44.9 | Okay. and cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. What's going on, guys? We are back, and today's sponsor is Merrickhealth.com. They are a premium telehealth platform specializing in hormone |
| 0:52.2 | optimization and preventative medicine. |
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