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Dave Tate's Table Talk

#234 Dave Kirschen | 2061 POUND TOTAL, 11 X Bodyweight Total in 2 Classes, GEAR eBook

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9586 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 249 minutes

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In this 234th episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk, David Kirschen joins us. Welcome, Dave! 

 

Author of Gear: The Ultimate Guide to Equipped Powerlifting, Dave competed in powerlifting from 1997 to 2020. As a competitive powerlifter, his best total was 2061, weighing 181 pounds. Dave totaled 11x times his bodyweight in two weight classes and benched 3x his bodyweight in four weight classes (all in full meets). He retired in 2020 at the WPO Semi Finals at the Arnold Expo. 

 

Dave was born in NYC. He resides in Connecticut with his wife and son. 

 

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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 

 

 

 

 

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

All right, guys, I want to thank today's sponsor Element. I'm having fun with ads now instead of just trying to like read through all the talking points and so forth. But there's a talking point here I have to read through.

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how do your quads cramp doing seated leg curls? But it was a reminder to me

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like the grapefruit. Maybe you do, maybe you don't. I don't know. Maybe you think you're not

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going to like the chocolate. I thought it was going to be awful, but it was in the sample pack. And then somebody gave me the idea to throw it on an oatmeal, and it was like a game changer of my oatmeal as far as how oatmeal tastes. The sample pack will allow you to test flavors to see what you like and what you don't like. So head over to Element.

2:03.0

This is Dave Tade from Elite FTS. Last year, we partnered with Ken Kinnack and to co-host the Swiss

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Symposium. It's built on hypertrophy in sport medicine for strength athletes and practitioners

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to come together in one place, which will be the Columbus

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Hilton at Easton. You are going to learn how to level up your training based upon the success

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and failures of others. You have to stay on top of your game if you want to be able to make the

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success and move forward at the pace that you want. Just to name a few of the presenters that

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will be presenting,

2:34.4

we're going to have Matt Winning, Brian Carroll, Eric Serrano, Jim Wender. That's just a few. These experts

2:39.7

will be presenting on low back injury and prevention, exercise selection, as well as a business,

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