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Dave Tate's Table Talk

#239 Jim "Smitty" Smith | Diesel Strength, Ageless Athlete Certification

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9586 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

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In this 239th episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk, Jim Smith joins us. Welcome, Jim!  

 

Jim is the founder and owner of Diesel Strength and Conditioning and the creator of the Ageless Athlete certification – the world's most complete longevity-based training system. 

 

For the past 24 years, Jim has been helping ageless athletes from the NHL, NFL, MLB, and UFC, as well as high school and collegiate athletes from various sports, achieve their strength and performance goals. 

 

Along with Joe DeFranco, Jim co-created the world-renowned CPPS certification, called by Muscle & Fitness magazine, "the best curriculum for trainers we've ever seen." 

 

Jim is on the Fitness Advisory boards for LIVESTRONG.com, Muscle & Fitness, Men's Fitness, and Schwarzenegger.com and is regularly featured in Men's Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, and Men's Health magazines.

 

Jim's IG: https://www.instagram.com/smittydiesel/

 

 

 

 

 

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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SUPPORT THE SHOW

 

All profits from elitefts Limited Edition Apparel, Table Talk Coffee, and

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right guys, I'm back in the gym with another limited edition apparel drop.

0:05.0

This is the new Live Learn Pass On shirt. I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about our Cambered grip American cable attachment.

0:12.0

This attachment has four grips and it's cambered. So when you flip it, it actually becomes eight grips.

0:17.0

And if you turn it upside down, there's's actually 16 this is one of our most used

0:21.2

cable attachments out in the gym even got that full range of motion we got a second

0:26.5

limited edition drop this month as well head over to elitefts.com pick up the shirt

0:30.9

pick up the cable attachments and we'll see you next time all right i want to remind you guys one

0:35.3

of the best ways that you can support the podcast and your training is to join the crew.

0:39.4

When you join the crew, you get an extra crew cast podcast every single month.

0:43.6

You also get access to our Discord, which has a training Q&A with Team Elite FTS members.

0:50.1

You get form checks.

0:51.8

You can upload any of your training footage and have your lifts diagnosed.

0:55.8

Sometimes within minutes by multiple people, access to close to 30 different ebooks, training logs,

1:02.0

and first sign up access to our weekend training treats, train your ass off, and other events that we do.

1:08.9

Biggest takeaways from that though, what people enjoy the most and get the most out of is the training Q&A and the form checks as well as the extra podcast. 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. Element is a tasty electrolyte drink with everything that you need and nothing you don't.

1:30.6

That means lots of salt and no sugar. For some reason, that just makes me laugh. I've had and have

1:36.9

been in the habit of drinking a half a pack before every leg training session and all my cramping

1:43.7

issues that I had went away because I've

1:46.4

always had cramping issues on heavy leg days and leg days especially. How do you how do your

1:51.6

quads cramp doing seated leg curls? But it was a reminder to me that I need element before my heavy training sessions, not just on days when I was sweating like crazy or it's super hot outside, but there's something with their ratio of sodium, magnesium, and potassium.

2:13.8

They're scientifically backed ratio. However, they explain that, that makes a huge difference with my training.

2:21.8

Every morning, I mix it in my oatmeal with, you know, the protein and the other crap I mix it with.

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