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#325 The One Thing Every Powerlifter Overlooks (And It's Killing Your Total) | Paul Gagné, Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.9586 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 213 minutes

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Welcome Paul Gagné to the 325th episode of Dave Tate's Table Talk. 

Paul Gagné is a Montreal-based posturologist and strength coach with nearly 40 years of experience, specializing in posture, athletic performance, and rehabilitation. His training philosophy, influenced by mentors like Charles Poliquin and Paul Chek, integrates neuromuscular, fascial, and postural elements to enhance athletic efficiency and prevent injuries. Notably active in the NHL, Gagné advocates for a holistic approach to training that includes high-velocity eccentric overload using the Desmotec Training System. He is also dedicated to teaching and mentoring in the practical applications of posturology.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Strength is one part of the preparation.

0:03.0

But how are you going to use that strength into what ability?

0:07.0

And you have to be available to use it.

0:10.0

And it will depend on how you...

0:12.0

There's a lot of peripheral stimulus and central nervous system.

0:16.0

You feel like the whole body is being under shock.

0:19.0

It's not like a compressive shock.

0:21.6

It's a shock that you're kind of in control.

0:24.6

Basically, the brain, all the work with the posture

0:27.6

and how it it transferred into strength.

0:33.6

It's kind of sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. All right, guys. We're back to another episode of Table Talk. Today, my guest is Paul Gagne. Gagne, you got it. I said that, right? It means you won. It means you're one. Well, that's good because as I'm going to introduce you here, I got a posturologist and strength and conditioning coach with over four decades in the industry.

0:58.2

That was about as truncated as I could make it.

1:00.7

Can you expand on that a little bit more?

1:03.6

So what is your area of specialty at this point in time?

1:07.8

And then how did you get to where you are?

1:10.4

So where did you start

1:11.2

from so first off what what is your practice what is your discipline what is

1:15.4

your area of expertise basically the brain all the work the brain with the

1:19.9

posture and I already transferred into strength and because I work with

1:23.9

athletes and that was very interesting how when you modify the posture, you modify through the brain,

1:30.3

either eyes, feet, and certain exercises,

1:32.8

that the power output is a lot better.

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