#286 Strongest Man You've Never Heard Of | Luke Nall, Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
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🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 127 minutes
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In this 286th podcast episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk, Luke Nall takes a seat.
Luke Nall is from Moline, Illinois. He's a Correctional Officer, powerlifter, and husband. Luke holds the fifth highest raw total of all time at 2403 pounds.
Luke's IG: https://www.instagram.com/lukenall56/
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| 0:00.0 | At some point, you have to determine whether it's detrimental or it's just your mindset is weak. |
| 0:09.1 | That's how I feel. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.4 | So it's happening as you warm up. |
| 0:16.8 | It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:23.0 | As we're back with another episode of Table Talk today, my guest is Luke Null. |
| 0:27.4 | Did I say that right? |
| 0:28.6 | Yep. |
| 0:28.9 | Okay, he's got the fourth highest raw total of all time. |
| 0:32.5 | Best lifts are 953, 633.8. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm not going to rip anybody off the points anymore. And then 837.7 with a 2403, |
| 0:42.5 | and I believe that was in October, correct? Yeah. The American Pro. The bench of the American |
| 0:48.0 | Pro was 611. 611. Yeah, my best bench was 633. I got it. Yes. I think now it's the fifth highest total. |
| 0:56.2 | Ah, who took it? |
| 0:57.2 | I think Andrew House that next weekend moved up on me. |
| 1:00.9 | When's your next meet? |
| 1:02.8 | I got a plan for September. |
| 1:04.6 | Okay. |
| 1:06.3 | And how did you get started in this stuff? |
| 1:08.7 | I know you played football in high school, right? Yeah, I did football and track. Were you strength training then? Yes, yeah. I'm going to since I was about 12. How did you start? Because of sports. Because of, and we had an active, like, high school strength program for a small school. Mm-hmm. So we got, I just got it in the lifting. |
| 1:28.8 | We had a decent gym that they just built like a couple years before I got to high school. |
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