#164 Michael De La Pava | THE BATTLE AXE GYM, MUAY THAI
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
5.0 • 49 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 253 minutes
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In this 164th Table Talk Podcast episode, Dave Tate is joined by Michael De La Pava.
Michael De La Pava is the owner of The Battle Axe Gym. Michael's athletic career includes stops in Muay Thai, strongman, powerlifting, and the highland games. He has worked with and alongside giants in the industry, including Brian Carroll, Stu McGill, Eddy Coan, and Andrew Lock.
The Battle Axe Gym has been home to world-class strength athletes, SOF, first responders, and several state and national champions in powerlifting and strongman since 2012. Michael continues to expand his horizons on several platforms, such as podcasts, retail, and hosting strongman and powerlifting contests in Florida.
He lives in Miami with his loving family and friends.
Michael's IG: https://www.instagram.com/thebattleaxegym/
The Battle Axe Gym: https://battleaxegym.com/
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™.
Dave's IG: https://www.instagram.com/underthebar/?hl=en
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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. |
| 0:08.2 | 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. |
| 0:16.0 | If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it. |
| 0:20.2 | What's going on? I'm Dave Tate. We are broadcasting |
| 0:22.6 | from the middle of the elite FTS weight room where the underground still thrives and you're part of the |
| 0:27.2 | crew. It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:44.3 | What's going on, guys? We are back with another episode of Table Talk. Before we begin the episode, I want to shout out to a couple of our sponsors. The first sponsor is MerrickHealth, |
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| 1:04.1 | help you determine if your fitness and if your health is moving in the right direction. |
| 1:09.1 | We all know that you're going to use metrics for the |
| 1:11.1 | strength and conditioning. Some people use conjugate. Some people won't, but you've got certain |
| 1:14.7 | exercises that kind of let you know if you're progressing down the road and down the path that |
| 1:19.6 | you want to progress down towards the main objectives that you have. 20 years ago, when I started |
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| 1:34.0 | because some of the extracurricular activities that I was doing at the time. |
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