#277 Chad Penson | Flight Chief of IT, 4X All-Time World Record Holder, US Air Force
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
4.9 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 139 minutes
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In this 277th podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk, Chad Penson takes a seat.
Chad Penson, a 31-year-old Flight Chief of IT in the US Air Force, is a 4X all-time world record holder in the 198 and 220-pound weight classes. He currently holds the all-time world record total of 2,199 pounds in the 198-pound weight class (raw with wraps division) and the all-time world record squat of 926 pounds in the 220-pound weight class (raw with wraps division).
Additionally, he has the third-highest DOTS score of all time across any weight class. Competing since 2011 in over 20 meets, Chad began his strength training journey as a young football player, later wrestling in high school and at Notre Dame College of Ohio.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | What's shit now! |
| 0:09.0 | What's it now! It's What this shit? |
| 0:22.6 | It's time! |
| 0:23.6 | It's time to sit down. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to table. Welcome to Table Talk. It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:42.3 | All right, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk. |
| 0:44.9 | Today, my guest is Chad Penson. |
| 0:48.0 | He's had four all-time world records, so I'm just going to go through some numbers here real quick. |
| 0:52.7 | Correct me if I'm wrong, right? |
| 1:03.1 | In the 220, Raw with sleeves, 266, right? Yeah. And 220 class with wraps, 2182. |
| 1:12.1 | Yep. And the all-time world record squat 925.9 at the 220s. And you're also a coach, so lifter and coach. |
| 1:15.3 | So I want to put that out there as well. |
| 1:18.0 | Let's start off with, I'm sure you've done tons of podcasts before. |
| 1:21.6 | So before you started powerlifting, I like to see where people's physical base is developed. |
| 1:27.3 | Yeah. I know there was |
| 1:28.2 | football and there was wrestling and that you wrestled in college. So we'll get to the college |
| 1:31.7 | thing in a minute. What age did you start just any kind of sport activity? |
| 1:36.9 | Oh man. So way back, obviously like when everybody's kids, they play a little like pee-wee |
| 1:42.9 | football, soccer, whatever. |
| 1:45.8 | But folks tried to put me in soccer was not good. |
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