#160 Naomi & Tom Sheppard | #1 UK RANKED LIFTER ALL-TIME, Phoenix Performance, Thibarmy
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
5.0 • 49 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 152 minutes
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Naomi and Tom Sheppard take a seat in this 160th podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk.
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 #4 worldwide in her weight category. Naomi is also an owner of Phoenix Performance and a strength coach for Thibarmy.
Tom Sheppard is a UK-based strength and powerlifting coach. As a coach, he has worked with professional athletes from a wide variety of sports worldwide, including rugby, baseball, MMA, and high-level powerlifters. Tom is the co-owner of Phoenix Performance and the Head Coach at Thibarmy. He also contributes content for companies such as elitefts and T-Nation. Tom presented at this year's SWIS Symposium alongside some of the biggest names in the fitness industry.
He and Naomi perform seminars internationally, both through Phoenix Performance and Thibarmy.
Today's podcast will thoroughly discuss eccentrics, isometrics, concentrics, and intensification methods that work.
Check out this episode that discusses Noami's and Tom's background: https://www.youtube.com/live/f_Ior-dPk4E?feature=share
Naomi Sheppard's IG: https://www.instagram.com/naomi.phoenixperformance/
Tom Sheppard's IG: https://www.instagram.com/phoenixperformancetraining/
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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. |
| 0:08.7 | Please help EliteFTS support this mission by smashing the like button, leaving a comment, sharing with a friend, and thinking of us for your training needs. |
| 0:16.5 | If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it. |
| 0:20.7 | What's going on? I'm Dave Tate, and we are broadcasting from the middle of the Elite FTS wait room, |
| 0:25.2 | where the underground still thrives and you're part of the crew. |
| 0:28.1 | It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to Table Talk. What's going on, guys? |
| 0:42.8 | We are back with another episode of Table Talk. |
| 0:46.8 | Today's episode is going to be a little bit different. |
| 0:50.4 | What we're going to do is I have Tom and Naomi Shepard on the podcast. |
| 0:54.2 | I was going to take a note and write a note to say what podcast they were on before, |
| 0:59.0 | but it is in the description. |
| 1:01.1 | So I'm just going to say 63. |
| 1:03.1 | 128. |
| 1:04.0 | 128. |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah, way off. |
| 1:06.1 | So all the background information, all that stuff, go listen to that. |
| 1:12.6 | What I wanted to do with this podcast is just speak with them on some specific training methods. You have heard me talk about |
| 1:19.4 | the training crew and the table talk support group crew, whatever it's going to be. We're now |
| 1:25.8 | getting close to the first benchmark. We're about 30 members away. And then after that, there's going to be. We're now getting close to the first benchmark. |
| 1:28.5 | We're about 30 members away. |
| 1:30.3 | And then after that, there's going to be specific podcast just for crew members. |
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