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Dave Tate's Table Talk

#377 Hard Work Is The Only Hack: A Celebrity Coach's Guide To Real Results | Don Saladino

Dave Tate's Table Talk

Dave Tate

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

Don is best known for training actors like Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, John Krasinski, Sebastian Stan, Blake Lively, and Emily Blunt for some of the most significant blockbuster roles of the last two decades. He opened his first gym, Drive 495, in New York City 2005. He later transitioned into building a global online fitness business, coaching tens of thousands of people worldwide through digital programs, live coaching, and speaking events.

His work has been featured in Muscle & Fitness, Men's Health, Women's Health, People, Cosmopolitan, WebMD, and on The Today Show, Page Six TV, and E! News. He's a two-time Muscle & Fitness cover athlete and sits on the advisory board of Men's Health Magazine.

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0:00.0

People think training athletes is more difficult and more challenging.

0:03.0

It's not even close.

0:04.0

The athlete is an athlete.

0:06.0

Well, now I'm putting a side injury.

0:08.0

I saw Ryan Reynolds break his neck and back on set.

0:10.0

The actor is an actor.

0:12.0

Most of them are non-athletic.

0:14.0

It's time to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit.

0:27.0

Welcome to Table Talk.

0:29.2

All right, guys.

0:29.6

We're back with another episode of Table Talk.

0:31.5

Today is Don Salino.

0:33.6

I have a list of things here in a specific order.

0:37.2

Coach, keynote speaker, health, entrepreneur, husband, father of two.

0:41.1

Over three decades as a coach, just launched the stronger podcast a couple days ago.

0:47.3

And you work with celebrities.

0:49.8

So I'm pivoting this a little bit differently than everybody else has done to where they're just kind of like, boom, and that's the biggest thing.

0:57.0

Trying to whore me out for it's all there.

0:59.0

So my jump off question for you is how did you go from a special ed kid to selling your own house to keep your gym alive?

1:08.0

Dude, I've never had anyone you said.

1:10.0

That's great. I love to give you never had any way to say that. That's great much.

1:11.6

I think everything led to the next step, right?

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