#327 The Road to 2200: What It Really Takes To Hit An Elite Powerlifting Total | Nick Forte

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Dave Tate

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Welcome Nick Forte to episode 327th of Dave Tate's Table Talk podcast.

Nick Forte, 31, is a powerlifter, father, husband, Pennsylvania State Corrections Officer, and a man of God. At 275, his personal bests raw is a 2138.4 total with a 782.6 squat, 540 bench, and 821.2 deadlift. His best wrapped squat is 805.

Nick's IG: https://www.instagram.com/nforte_242/

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0:00.0	It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.
0:09.0	Welcome to Table Talk.
0:11.0	All right guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk.
0:13.0	Today, my guest is Nick Forte, top-ranked powerlifter.
0:18.0	Started competing in 2015, but we'll get get in you probably started training way before that so
0:22.2	we'll kind of get into that i want to jump off with the reach rumble that you just did on
0:28.6	september 7th right yeah because looking through your open powerlifting those are close to your best
0:33.2	numbers or your best numbers so walk me through just the'd the meat go. Honestly, it was the best
0:40.5	meat I've ever done. Like the way that we were taking care of, it made you feel like a professional
0:44.4	athlete. They know what they're doing. They haven't figured out because, you know, they paid for
0:48.4	our hotel, gave us money to come out there and compete. And if you want to make a difference in powerlifting,
0:55.1	like people say they want to, they're doing it. Like they haven't figured out right now. And, you know, we did a, we all weighed in, like, super fast. Like, we didn't have to wait around, you know, some meat jerks in around weight. No, just one after another. Let's go, dude, get on the scale. That was quick. went right into a press conference
1:10.9	which was really good
1:11.8	and then we did a way in where we weighed off
1:13.8	we took our shirt dude get on the scale that that was quick uh went right into a press conference which was really
1:11.5	good and then we did a weigh in where we weighed off we took our shirts off yeah yeah yeah like it was
1:16.0	like the ufc it felt like legit like i was like man this is once a lifetime experience like
1:20.7	i got dudes dropped out and i hopped in i'm like this is so worked like was this a formula only type
1:26.1	thing oh it was just best total, top total.
1:28.6	Okay, because I saw you were 76. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, top total. It was just totals talk, as it was said. Oh, just total. So no. No, it was just highest total. Yeah. So that's why Zach Myers ended up winning because it was highest total. Yeah. Yeah, so this is what every big guy's been asking for forever, right?
1:45.8	Maybe big dogs years ago used to do something.
1:48.0	Yeah. winning because it was highest total, yeah. Yeah, so this is what every big guy's been asking for forever, right?
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