#283 World Record Lifter Disses Modern Training | Jeremy Hamilton, Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate's Table Talk
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
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In this 283rd podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk, Jeremy Hamilton takes a seat.
Jeremy Hamilton was a competitive powerlifter from 2007 to 2016. Hamilton competed worldwide and is a former all-time world record holder in the 220-pound weight class (raw with wraps) with a 2123-pound total. He also totaled 2017 lbs at 220 lbs (raw), which at the time of doing it was the third-highest raw total of all time in the weight class. Hamilton was voted Powerlifter of the Year in 2015 by Powerliftingwatch.com.
He still holds the highest raw male dots in Canada and the highest Canadian total in raw and raw with wraps in the 220-pound weight class.
Over the years, Hamilton has given back to the strength community through his many YouTube instructional videos and seminars in Canada, the United States, and Australia. He has also done lectures at the University of Toronto for the school's strength athletes.
Hamilton is the owner of Fortis West, a strength gym in Toronto, Canada.
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| 0:00.0 | I can't see myself under a thousand pounds squat. |
| 0:02.3 | But in time, you mentally became okay with that. Then that's it. Like, not only you became okay with it, it was who you became. Like, yeah. They're like, no, stop taking test. No matter what you went in there for. Yeah, that's the reason. That's the reason. You know, they'll. So you're doing it on the meat day. Like, that's why I started leaving more and more in the tank. |
| 0:23.1 | Like, I lifted weights in my final years that were, like, my max weights that I was lifting two, three years prior or something. I was just doing more work leading up to it and then leaving a little more on the tank in the end. I miss my bench here. Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | What exercise do I need to do to build that? |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.5 | For me, it's just more heavy benches seamlessly. |
| 0:43.5 | Like the heaviest weight you can do through that range of motion perfectly from point |
| 0:47.9 | to point B before it form breaks. |
| 0:59.6 | This time, sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 1:01.6 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 1:05.4 | All right, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk. |
| 1:15.5 | Today, my guest is Jeremy Hamilton, former competitive powerlifter from 2007 to 2016, competed in all the raw unity meets from raw unity one to eight. |
| 1:19.6 | And was a former all-time world record holder in the 220s with a 21-23 total. |
| 1:25.8 | Still has the highest total or highest dots in Canada. |
| 1:30.4 | I think so. |
| 1:31.2 | For the 220. |
| 1:32.5 | People tell me. |
| 1:33.7 | People tell you don't pay that much attention. |
| 1:35.4 | I don't as deep anymore. |
| 1:37.4 | Yes. |
| 1:38.0 | And as the owner of Fortis West in Toronto. |
| 1:42.4 | Correct. |
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