#367 The Foot Mechanic Secrets Powerlifters Don't Know | Chris Duffin

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Dave Tate

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Chris Duffin is a world-class strength athlete, inventor, and entrepreneur known for pushing life to the extremes—performance, competence, and achievement. He is the founder of Kabuki Strength and advisor to companies like Bearfoot Shoes and LiftLab, blending engineering, biomechanics, and human performance into transformative products and education.

A record-holding powerlifter, Chris is the only person to squat and deadlift 1000+ lbs for reps and holds the Guinness World Record for the heaviest sumo deadlift. His innovations impact professional sports teams, military branches, and thousands of athletes worldwide.

Raised in extreme adversity, Chris overcame homelessness and a chaotic childhood to become a top student, engineer, and entrepreneur. He is also a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and thought leader in personal development. Father of three and husband to a Canadian chef, he balances family life with building businesses, mentoring others, and pursuing his love of adventure.

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0:00.0	I grew up homeless in the wilderness.
0:01.7	We got taken by the state, which ended up being a human trafficking ring.
0:05.4	They were taking children, the sheriff, half the deputies all went to prison.
0:09.9	You need to have jacked feet.
0:11.1	That is our connection to the ground.
0:12.9	That's where the force transfer comes from.
0:27.2	It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.
0:29.2	Welcome to Table Talk.
0:32.1	All right, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk.
0:33.8	Today, my guest is Chris Duffin.
0:39.0	We've been working on getting on the podcast for quite a while now. Chris is,
0:42.5	there's a lot of accolades here, so I'm just going to lift them off and then you can fill in what I forget. Former all-time world record holder and powerlifting competed over 14 years
0:47.5	between 2002, 2016, best-selling author, speaker, serial entrepreneur, which we can say that now because there's
0:55.6	several businesses where the entrepreneur thing's always been weird to me.
0:59.2	I agree.
1:00.8	When it's one business, inventor, educator, well known in the space, anything there I left out.
1:09.5	That sounds good.
1:11.0	Yeah. We could throw a lot of other stuff in That sounds good. Yeah.
1:13.2	We could throw a lot of other stuff in there.
1:14.0	Yeah.
1:16.1	And we got a lot to discuss.
1:20.8	We have a crew, a Discord, that kind of helps support the podcast.
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