Are You Training Hard Enough To Get Your Best Gains? | Pete Rubish
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Dave Tate
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
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Pete is a competitive 242-pound powerlifter with best lifts of 772 pounds on squat, 485 pounds on bench, and 920 pounds on deadlift. For the last ten years, he has been coaching and training lifters. His passion is helping others get stronger and realize just how much more capable they can be as they pursue their true potential – and their next PR. Pete and his wife own Koa Strength and Fitness in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, and you have to go through that struggle. |
| 0:02.0 | Like we need that struggle, that difficult thing that scares us, like you said. If it's not scary, it's not enough. If it's not something that's going to take a prolonged effort, not, I'm not talking like two months for now. I'm talking a year or more of just buckling down and getting after it. And I needed that, I needed that discipline. The discipline is what drives me, so, you know, it would have been better to skip that day physically. Sure. |
| 0:24.6 | But mentally, you gotta wonder because that kind of in my mind means I quit. |
| 0:29.6 | Then if I quit, then it's gonna be easier in my mind to do it next time. |
| 0:33.6 | And if it's easier to do it next time, then it's gonna be easy for me to quit halfway through the lift when I need to keep pulling further than everybody else would. |
| 0:48.3 | What's going on, guys? We're back with another episode of Table Talk. My guest today is Pete Rubish. |
| 0:53.4 | He's back again. We had him out four |
| 0:55.0 | months ago. Right before we started the podcast, we were talking about bouncing. So I went |
| 0:58.8 | to finish the story. I was telling him beforehand, where I asked him if you ever did any |
| 1:03.8 | barbacking, which is you got to carry the cakes, because you were in a college bar and it's super, |
| 1:08.5 | super packed. I was in BG, Bowling Green at the time. |
| 1:12.1 | The best thing about being a bar back, |
| 1:15.2 | you could plow through the fucking crowd, right? |
| 1:17.7 | Because you got the keg, it's just like, |
| 1:19.9 | and people are fucking getting knocked over, |
| 1:22.2 | left and right. |
| 1:23.7 | It was the revenge for all the bullshit |
| 1:26.3 | you had to go through before you know, before that. |
| 1:28.7 | So you missed out on that opportunity. |
| 1:31.0 | Plus in the back, and it was Mike Isratel made a post a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:37.1 | And it was, he was doing the tricep extension. |
| 1:41.8 | You know, you got the bar on the bench, and it's like a body weight tricep extension, right? |
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