Ep 825: Breaking The Limits of Strength w/ Dave Spitz

Power Athlete Radio

Power Athlete

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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What does it take to build athletes capable of lifting the impossible? Dave Spitz of Cal Strength joins John to break down his approach to training a new world-record hopeful, the blueprint for developing freak strength, and the common mistakes lifters make when chasing heavy weights. If you want to understand how world-class power is forged (and why most athletes fail before they ever get strong), this episode is for you. Shownotes: https://bit.ly/PARep825 Are you looking to amplify your physique and build thick sidewalk splitting slabs of muscle? Follow with the same tried-and-true training that John Welbourn followed to walk into training camp at 308 lbs & 8% body fat. Jacked Street. START TODAY - https://powerathletehq.com/jackedstreet/ Check out what we do: Training - https://powerathletehq.com/training Nutrition - https://powerathletehq.com/nutrition Knowledge - https://academy.powerathletehq.com Click on the link to see the companies we use and support 👉 https://powerathletehq.com/partners/ Follow Dave on Insta https://www.instagram.com/cal_strength/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	You're listening to Power Athlete Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering your performance every damn day.
0:08.4	Join former NFL Pro and Power Athlete founder John Wellborn as he dissects the greatest minds in strength, conditioning, and more.
0:17.0	So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've come to the right place.
0:24.5	Now with the warm up done, let the gains begin.
0:27.3	All right, welcome back to another episode of Power Athlete Radio.
0:30.8	It's been too long.
0:32.5	We've been through so much.
0:34.4	There's been through, I mean, our friendship has lasted the test of time. I feel like at this point, we could be engaged and married. I mean, we've been friends. We've been working together. I mean, you know, we've been doing this programming thing and really just been in close contact for over a decade. So, and it's, it's sad when I went back and looked and you were like in the 200s on the podcast. And now we're in the 800s. So I felt it was time to bring back the man, the myth, the legend, Mr. Dave Spitz to Power Athlete Radio. Thank you. Thank you for having me. It has been too long. Actually, I haven't done any podcasts in a long time. So I'm facing obsolescence. This is, this is important for me.
1:12.6	How come? Did you just get out of the rhythm of doing podcasts? You just got it got stale?
1:17.7	Well, I think the situation has changed for me dramatically. I've gone and made a big bet in the brick and mortar space. So I've
1:30.8	opened a second Cal Strength location and then opened a larger more all-inclusive club called
1:39.4	the club at Los Gatos. And then which is beautiful and which is amazing. Yeah.
1:45.0	Yeah.
1:46.0	Thank you.
1:47.0	And then went ahead and built a restaurant out with a with a couple friends too.
1:50.0	So I've kind of just been stretching my legs across these other disciplines and the media stuff is kind of taken a back seat.
1:58.0	But that's all about to change.
2:00.0	Nice. Well, I'm glad to have you thrusting yourself back in front of the camera and back in there.
2:04.5	I mean, you've so much to contribute.
2:06.2	I mean, not only training Olympic lifters, but working with high level athletes and NFL players
2:11.3	and really just, you know, developing people for the combine and just for greatness, man.
2:16.3	I'm just, I'm a little surprised and I and also a little stoked that you kind of pulled the Kaiser
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