#313 Breathing and Bracing: Unlocking Strength & Injury Prevention | Brandon Morgan, Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 259 minutes

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Brandon Morgan joins this 313th episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk Podcast.

Brandon Morgan has spent the last decade in the fitness industry, primarily coaching, and in the past five years, he has also made significant contributions to education. As the Director of Education at Kabuki Strength, he led seminars nationwide for clinicians, trainers, strength coaches, athletes, and professional sports teams. He also developed both long and short-form educational content.

Recently, Brandon left Kabuki to start his own business, which quickly expanded to three ventures. In the past few months, he opened two new gyms in the Pacific Northwest, where he oversees education and content creation, while continuing to coach both virtually and in person.

Brandon specializes in coaching individuals with hypertrophy goals, powerlifters, and MMA athletes. His wrestling background has naturally led him to work extensively with MMA athletes.

Brandon's IG: https://www.instagram.com/brandonmorgan.coach/

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0:00.0	At first, I just said, guys, you don't understand. But after a while, this actually started to really get to me. I started asking the question internally, like, am I wasting my time? Am I dreaming? Am I, you know, taking away from my ability to progress on my career by clinging on to this pipe dream in a sense? And I was pretty close to finally coming up to the boss there and just telling him, like,
0:20.9	hey, Matt, so I graduated college, internship done.
0:23.5	Thank you for the opportunity and separating ways.
0:26.9	Getting closer and closer.
0:28.1	And then there's one day in particular where the head of coaching there, Brandon Sen,
0:32.5	pulled me into his office and he preface by saying something's effective,
0:36.7	you know, we really appreciate how long you've been here, despite us not paying you a single cent. We appreciate the questions that you've been asking, the things you've been doing, you know, so yeah, and just slid me a piece of paper. And I picked up the piece of paper. And I was completely unaware it was happening because, again, pipe dream. I started to realize that.
0:54.9	And I looked at the piece of paper, and at the top, it said,
0:56.8	strength coach employment form. And I was, there's no way. Am I in this real life? There's no way. And I started reading through it. And it's all the agreements and the pay and stuff like that. And it was one of those movie. And for a lot of people out there, they might be hearing this.
1:09.3	Like, dude, it's a strength coaching job.
1:11.2	Like, it's not that, it's not that real or whatever you want to say.
1:14.2	Not that serious. movie and for a lot of people out there they might be hearing this like dude it's a strength coaching job like it's not that it's not that not that real or whatever you want to say not that
1:14.5	serious but for me it was everything like absolutely everything and i started reading through it
1:19.6	and it was like one of those movie scenes where like all the noise around you just kind of drowns
1:23.0	out and that kind of scene and i just read through it. I read through it again.
1:30.6	And then I realized I didn't hear the last few paragraphs that he said to me.
1:33.9	And finally I looked up and he said something in here.
1:34.6	I didn't respond to it. He goes, Brandon, do you accept?
1:37.6	And I had to play it off so much.
1:39.3	It's like, you want my talents.
1:41.8	Yeah, sure.
1:42.4	I was just internally freaking out though.
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