#392 Why Most "Functional Training" is Absolute BS | Dr. John Rusin
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Dave Tate
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
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Dr. John Rusin is an internationally recognized strength coach, physical therapist, and injury-prevention expert with nearly two decades of elite-level experience working with MLB All-Stars, NFL All-Pros, Olympic gold medalists, and world-record-holding powerlifters. He's the founder of the Pain-Free Performance Specialist Certification (PPSC), the world's fastest-growing health-first training education system, and the author of Pain-Free Performance: Move Better, Train Smarter, and Build an Unbreakable Body. His work bridges the gap between high-intensity training and long-term health, helping everyday lifters and elite athletes alike build strong, resilient, pain-free bodies for life.
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| 0:00.0 | I'll work with people from all walks of life, but everyone's goal is still the same. |
| 0:04.0 | They want to live a great life. They want to do what they love to do forever, but they want to make sure that they're not sitting out on their life while their family moving forward. |
| 0:12.0 | When I contacted you, I was coming off the back end of two heart surgeries as you know. Now you know what you did for me. |
| 0:17.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you, Dave. We're done. |
| 0:21.6 | It's time. |
| 0:22.6 | All right. All right. It's good to sit down, keep it real, and cut the bullshit. |
| 0:38.1 | Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:40.4 | All right, John, it's good to have you back again. |
| 0:42.4 | I was just looking at the YouTube. |
| 0:44.1 | It was seven years ago. |
| 0:46.4 | Wow. |
| 0:46.9 | You were out here, right? |
| 0:49.1 | So it's been a while, so what's been going on? |
| 0:52.3 | Everything. |
| 0:52.9 | I feel like seven years years everything has changed everything |
| 0:55.8 | has evolved uh i really look at that seven years ago being here is like almost like a starting point |
| 1:02.0 | to what i'm doing now uh with the education with a lot of the coaching that we're doing and i think it led |
| 1:07.2 | to even a book but uh it was definitely a turning point uh coming out working with you at Elite FTS, spending a lot of time out here and kind of finding the next path forward. I thought it was like four years, to be honest. And then when I looked, I'm like, I get hit with those things on Facebook that are like, hey, this happened six years ago, seven years ago, eight years ago. And I just got hit with the one that was, I think it was eight years ago, was the first one |
| 1:31.7 | where it was like, hey, we were teasing the fixing the fixing Dave Tate. |
| 1:35.4 | And that was the first video that dropped. |
| 1:37.3 | And then a couple months later, that was when the series started. |
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