#291 600 Pound Squat At 64 Years Old | David Ricks, Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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On today's 291st episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk podcast, David Ricks joins us!

Mr. David Ricks is the Director of the Engineering and Public Works Department for Palm Beach County, Florida, providing services to a population of nearly 1.5 million. He oversees a transportation system with over 1,300 intersections, 3,600 thoroughfare lane miles, and 314 bridges. Leading a team of over 450 personnel, he manages an operating budget of over $60 million and a five-year capital program of almost $700 million. Recently, he updated a Strategic Plan for the department.

With over 30 years of experience in organizational management, construction management, and infrastructure, Mr. Ricks has held various prestigious positions. He has served as the Public Works Director for the City of Norfolk, Virginia, the Director of Facilities and Transportation Services for Fulton County, Georgia, and the Director of the Public Works Department for Montgomery County, Ohio. He is licensed as a professional engineer in Florida, Minnesota, and Ohio.

David Ricks was also a United States Naval Officer for 22 years as a Civil Engineering Corps Officer and graduated from the United States Naval Academy. He has been competing in powerlifting since 1980, starting as a senior at the Naval Academy. Mr. Ricks is a 32-time National Powerlifting Champion and an 11-time I.P.F. World Powerlifting Champion. He has competed in eight I.P.F. Equipped World Championships and seven I.P.F. Classic World Championships, holding 71 I.P.F. records. Notably, he broke the Open Classic Squat record three times as a Master.

Awards:

1993 Navy Male Athlete of the Year
Summit County Ohio Sports Hall of Fame
Barberton Ohio Sports Hall of Fame
2011 co-winner of the Brother Bennett Award from USAPL
2012 inductee into the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Hall of Fame
2021 inductee into the USAPL Men's Hall of Fame

David's IG: https://www.instagram.com/dricks205/

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	I thought, you know, basically, once you're getting your late 20s, that's basically your peak years and that, that, you're an old guy.
0:06.4	So why are you still lifting?
0:08.8	But I've, even when I got in my 40s, I thought, maybe a couple more years, I call it a day.
0:14.2	I have not, if you had told me, I'll be doing these numbers in my 60s or in my 50s, so you gotta be smoking something.
0:21.3	Because it's hard for me to conceive that at that age,
0:25.1	you'd be doing these type of numbers.
0:27.0	And so unless you are on that journey,
0:29.7	it's hard to kind of conceptualize that this is possible.
0:32.8	And so my goal was that if everything went to plan,
0:37.0	that I was gonna put the open squat record on the bar. I opened that, like 640, smoked it. $6.02, smoked that one. And I had, and I called for it on the bar as a master three lifter. And as I walked it out, you know how you get a weight on your bag and you say, oh, I got this? That's how that felt.
0:54.8	As I came out of the groove, I got off balance.
1:00.6	It's got to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.
1:06.2	Welcome to Table Talk.
1:08.7	All right, guys.
1:09.4	We're back with another episode of Table Talk.
1:11.5	Today, my guest is David Ricks.
1:13.9	Correct me if I'm wrong, because there's a lot of things here, right?
1:16.9	You know, he has set 71 IPF records and 11 IPF World Championships in the IPF Hall of Fame
1:24.8	and the USAPL Hall of Fame, husband, father, and grandfather, right?
1:31.3	And did your first meet in 1982?
1:35.3	Oh, 81.
1:36.2	81, right?
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