#322 Backyard Lifts to Elite Powerlifter: Wildest Training Stories | Dawson Windham, Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate's Table Talk
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🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Welcome Dawson Windham to episode 322nd of Dave Tate's Table Talk podcast.
Dawson Windham is a 26-year-old raw 242 powerlifter who has been competing since 2015. Currently ranked 20th all-time, Dawson aims to break into the top 5 soon. He is coached by Josh Bryant and mentored by the renowned "Knees Over Toes" guy, combining top-tier coaching with cutting-edge training philosophies.
Dawson's IG: https://www.instagram.com/dawsonwindham/?hl=en
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to squat 700 pounds, that mountain seems giant. |
| 0:04.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.5 | But if you like, to experience that training hall, it's like, oh, there's like seven teenagers in here ripping 700 pounds off the ground, I should do that. I should be able to do that with ease. I should be better than them. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, it just, it warps you a little bit. But I feel like if you just, I feel like if you just experience that, |
| 0:22.8 | even a few times, |
| 0:24.1 | you carry it with you. |
| 0:25.6 | Even if you're not like around it |
| 0:27.0 | and like surrounded by a 24-7, |
| 0:29.5 | you can't unsee certain things. |
| 0:30.9 | Yeah, well, it will. |
| 0:41.3 | It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:45.9 | All right, guys, we're back with another episode. |
| 0:46.7 | Table Talk. |
| 0:48.6 | Today, my guest is Dawson Windham. |
| 0:54.3 | Raw power lifter and coach started competing in 2015, but training way before that. |
| 0:55.3 | So we'll get into all that. |
| 1:03.3 | Best lifts of 733, 534.6, 810.2, 2077.80 total. |
| 1:04.8 | That's from Loveting. |
| 1:07.7 | So all that's correct, right? |
| 1:10.8 | There's no recent meets like in the last weed that's not on there. |
| 1:11.3 | No, sir. |
| 1:16.7 | Where I want to start, as I like to start a little bit, actually, no, where I'm going to start is the first time I met you was a couple years ago in a pump house gym where it's in |
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