How to Determine the Right Training Split in 5 Steps
Most people try to cram a square peg into a round hole when choosing their training plan. Why not create a training split that compliments your lifestyle?
I Am Yessica Martinez
Competing now for ten years, we recircle with Yessica Martinez to get an update on life, training, and foreseeable future endeavors.
Escalating Density Training for High School Athletes
Escalating Density Training or EDT is a savagely simple hypertrophy variation to transform teenage athletes into monsters.
Movement Tiers for Squat and Deadlift Weakness
Use these movement tiers to help athletes and coaches program the correct movements for specific weaknesses in squats or deadlifts.
8-Week Reset Program for the Stressed Lifter
Use this 8-week reset program to give yourself an “active break” while reaping the physical and mental benefits of regular training.
The Busy Man's Guide to Strength
As a new father or busy professional in your 30s+, training takes on a whole new look and meaning to meet your demanding lifestyle.
The End of a Strength and Conditioning Career
What do you do when you wake up one morning and realize that your best years are behind you? Retirement is a double-edged sword.
6 Exercises to Improve Posture (and Recovery)
Do you sit a lot? How about those shoulders? Are they rounded forward? Even if you don’t sit all day, many of the exercises you’re doing in the gym place you in extension.
Arm Training for Strength Athletes
Direct arm training will reduce the likelihood of a biceps or triceps tear, strengthen the tendons, improve pressing strength and grip.
Can Training Be Protective Against Injury?
Train balls to the wall and stuff is bound to break, right? Back things off and recovery capabilities won’t be as taxed, right? Well, kind of.
#96 - Training Talk on HIT Training with Sam Brown
Sam Brown talks about HIT Training and how you can use it in your training to better yourself, or your athletes.
3 Steps to an Effective Deload
Before you take a break from lifting heavy (and for those of you that are on the fence wondering if deloads are even necessary), consider three backed-by-science steps.
The Lost Manual for Throwing
The arm is just another part of the body that can be trained like the legs or the biceps if you know how to do it correctly.
7 Myths of Collegiate Strength and Conditioning
“We are a family.” This is the first collegiate strength and conditioning myth I’d like to debunk. Hear me out.
How to Fix Chronically Tight Ankles
Let’s manage posture, patterns, and muscle imbalances to get to the source of the problem—a typical solution for most ailments.
#95 - Matt Mills and Brittany Diamond
Matt Mills and Brittany Diamond talk about training for both strongman and powerlifting, gross gym stories, and competition training.
How to Run a Successful Powerlifting Meet
At Showtime Strength & Performance, we have run close to 30 powerlifting meets of all sizes and for competitors of all types. Here’s how we do it.
#94 - When Dave Made the Best Gains and Why
In this Table Talk episode, Dave Tate addresses when he felt he was at his “BEST” and what made it possible.
3 Ways to Get Stronger Using Your Mind
Your battle to succeed in powerlifting is won or lost in your mind long before you chalk up and curl your fingers around the knurling of a barbell.
#93 - Can Powerlifting Wreck Your Health, Plus Gear Drama
The long-term impact powerlifting can have on health, and if it wrecks your body, as well as the current state of Multiply Powerlifting gear.
#92 - Fear of Lifting, Getting Paid as a Lifter, and GPP
How to deal with the fear of lifting maximal weights, how to get paid as a Powerlifter, and the integration of GPP into your training.
Powerlifting Advice and Idols
You never know who is looking up to you, and wouldn’t it be a damn shame if you turned out just to be another asshole with a singlet and a status.
Make Combat Athletes Strong
The skills for specific sports will rise with the raising of the athlete’s absolute strength. Don’t be afraid to make combat athletes strong.
Three-Times-A-Week Conjugate
Here’s how to use a three-times-a-week conjugate split for your clients. You may just find this split more goal-conducive than a typical split.
The Real Reasons You Didn’t Reach Your Strength Potential
We all need to progress as lifters and coaches. As a year in review synopsis, here’s a list of things to repeat and eliminate for 2022.
#91 - All Things Nutrition and Training with Justin Harris and Dani LaMa...
Justin Harris and Dani LaMartina are guests on this episode of Dave Tate’s Table Talk to discuss training, recovery, and diet in lifting.
A Case for Directly Training the Hip Flexors
Don’t forget to flex the front! As a powerlifter, bodybuilder, and runner, hip flexion is your source of stability, function, and power.
I Am Dani LaMartina
Who’s Dani? Where is she from? What are her passions? What is she accomplishing in her practice and lifting career? She tells you here.
The Immunity Fix for Strength Athletes
Take control of your health and improve your immune response, performance, general health, and well-being by fixing these things today.
The Eternal Triangle of Sports Weight Training
What is the eternal triangle shape of sports weight training? Considering speed, strength, and size, is it a scalene, isosceles, or equilateral?
#90 - Stan Efferding LIVE On The Dave Tate's Table Talk
Stan Efferding joins us on Dave Tate’s Table Talk to talk about everything related to lifting, business, and health. Watch Stan’s episode now.
A Core Training Blueprint for the Athlete
It’s a simple model that uses stabilization, strength, and sport transfer to build the core of your athletes.
8-Week Strength Training Program for the MMA Athlete
Take two athletes with roughly the same skill set, the stronger athlete will win every time. Get stronger with this program.
Technique's Role in Injury Risk
Can we adapt, get stronger, and build tolerance within what could be considered bad technique. Here’s how injuries occur and don’t.
Try This Warm-Up Before Your Next Lower Body Training Session
We do this warm-up with all our powerlifters and athletes. Prime the system BEFORE you get under the bar to drive performance.
#89 - Powerlifting Injuries and Meeting Some elitefts Staff
Dave Tate and elitefts staff discuss old injuries and how they came to be at elitefts as well as what to expect from elitefts in the new year.
Conjugate Method for Tactical Strength and Conditioning
The conjugate method runs like a well-oiled machine for the tactile athlete who needs to fulfill a wide-range of on-the-job tasks.
An Application of Linear Periodization and Why It’s Still Relevant
Piecing together what I’ve learned from Dave Tate, Jim Wendler, and Sam Brown, I added 70+ pounds to my total in a six-month period.
Is There Any Benefit to Doing Over 40 Sets
Ever wondered about the benefits of more sets? Maybe you’ve tried and got quickly fatigued? Dave explains the impact in his latest Table Talk.
Never Fear Change
Trying to get stronger or bigger? Carrying too much fat? Regardless of the goal, change is inevitable. Embrace it to reach your goals.
#88 - Sam's Gone and This is the Last Podcast?!?
Dave Tate goes solo to answer questions and give as much information on powerlifting as possible in two hours.
Honoring Those Who Came Before Us
Let’s honor those who came before us. Who gave you a better chance to succeed as you started your new role?
Commercial Gym Conjugate
Conjugate doesn’t have to be complicated. Here’s what it is in the most simplest terms, along with a program to get you started anywhere.
INTERVIEW: University of Wisconsin's Throwing Coach Dave Astrauskas
Coach Dave breaks down his macrocycle, mesocyclone, and microcycle so you can better understand how to train a thrower.
Thank You Andy, Tony, and Dickhead Steve Jones
I am quite sure that I am not the only one who has had people influence my motivation, positively or negatively. Here are my three.
#87 - The Most Conjugate Thing and Dave's Christmas Gift
Sam shows Dave a conjugate crazy powerlifting video and keeps the surprises coming when he gives Dave a surprise Christmas gift LIVE.
Utilizing Prilepin’s Chart
Coaches, use Prilepin’s Chart to gain a new perspective while training your beginning athletes. Here’s how I’ve found the chart to be useful.
Burn Fat and Build Muscle at the Same Time
The results will come pretty fast too, so you don’t need to do it for several months before you notice fat loss and muscle gain.
A Bodybuilding Diet for Powerlifters: How to Eat to Build Muscle and Get...
A few easy dieting strategies can make a big difference in your recovery, strength, and—most of all— how you look.
Do We Deliver on Our Job Title?
For whatever reason, there’s a constant need to reframe what we do by a change in job title. Our job description has yet to change.
How to Transition From a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset
Once you make the shift, you can’t undo it. You’ll be amazed at how easy it is and how hard it is to reverse.
General Concepts and Progression of the Omni-Contraction System
After consulting with Ben Prentiss and implementing with my athletes, here's a BRIEF description of the system. Download the 12-week program!
#85 - How Important is Social Media Really?!
How important is social media? Find out how Dave Tate runs his business on social media and what it takes to succeed in a niche market.
The Gravitas of Dave Draper
The iconic golden-era bodybuilder, Dave Draper, passed away on November 30th. Read more about his life, legacy, and impact on bodybuilding.
The Zercher Squat and the High School Athlete
An often-overlooked squat variation that should be held in constant exercise rotation is the Zercher squat. Here's why.
3 Training Misconceptions From Dadhood
Wouldn't it be nice if training remained the same after children are born. Sadly, that's NOT the case. Here's how to modify your approach.
#84 - Dave’s Social Media Obsession and 2022 Training Goals
2022 is upon us and Dave Tate has a plan and goals for social media and how it will impact his business and the education he pushes out.
What is Wrong with Powerlifting?
Absolutely nothing. That may not be the best question to ask if we're looking to improve this wonderful sport.
6 Tactics to Fight the Thanksgiving Fluff
Thanksgiving will leave you feeling like that butterball on the dinner table, unless you plan accordingly.
