PLOT TWIST: Special Guest Dave Tate features a mix of humor, philosophy, and deep discussion about powerlifting, with a central theme around the concept of intent—the idea that success in lifting comes not just from effort and discipline but from being mentally present and purposeful in execution. Dave emphasizes that most lifters lack true intent, even if they have all other elements like consistency and motivation. The conversation also explores topics like wrestling, training philosophies, ridiculous fitness advice, and hypothetical scenarios, often laced with humor and storytelling. Ultimately, Dave concludes that what separates great athletes is not just genetics or work ethic, but their mindset—specifically, their ability to embrace adversity and stay indifferent to distractions.
The Biggest Mistake Powerlifters Make - Special Guest Dave Tate
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
4.9 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:00.9 | Yeah, welcome to the Dave Tehrast, basically. |
| 0:03.7 | So we put out some questions to our community that they wanted to ask you. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'll put some instructions on there, too, after a while, which was to make you as feel as uncomfortable as humanly possible. |
| 0:16.1 | So I actually printed off. |
| 0:17.3 | When I say I, I mean, Sheena and Noah, printed off a Jules-Lux color chart. Okay. Okay. And we're going to see how well our crew members do based on what color we can make Dave go based on these questions. So, I mean, a couple of favorites I've picked out right now would be purple passion, if we can get there, or grape surprise. Okay, the purple purple one can we do that while he's squatting |
| 0:39.3 | i think so we're going to ask him questions while he's but we need to we need to be careful |
| 0:43.5 | because grape surprise apparently is very close to seductive mood oh so we need to just be careful |
| 0:49.6 | how we step here now the question that i want to open with that I think will get the ball rolling |
| 0:55.3 | very nicely will be, what is the biggest mistake that you see in powerlifting today? |
| 1:00.3 | Yep. Yep. Yep. Oh, shift. That works. The biggest mistake I see in power lifting today is intent. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay. Okay. And I don't know lifting today is intent. Okay. |
| 1:11.0 | Okay. |
| 1:12.0 | And I don't know if that's bigger or less as big is when I was competing. |
| 1:19.0 | And by intent, and I thought about this one for a while, because there's a lot of places |
| 1:23.7 | you can go, like bracing's wrong rooting. |
| 1:25.8 | We can go down that whole rabbit hole. |
| 1:28.0 | But intent would be the last spot on the journey |
| 1:34.2 | of being successful at what you're doing, right? |
| 1:36.8 | So if it all starts with attention, right? |
| 1:39.6 | And we all are surrounded with intention all the time, |
| 1:43.9 | attention all the time, right? |
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