# @elitefts on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbBZVwCP5T6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68308485-elitefts-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-20T16:44:08.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** elitefts (@eliteftsofficial) — https://gondola.cc/eliteftsofficial

## Caption

‼️ Dave Tate’s Table talk episode #431 going live today with Ben Pollack!

Ben Pollack is a coach, writer, physical-culture scholar, former world-record powerlifter, and bodybuilding competitor known as phdeadlift.

Ben earned a PhD studying the history of strength and physique development, has coached everyone from beginners to world champions, and has spent much of his life testing those ideas under the bar. He has held world records in powerlifting, earned professional status in bodybuilding, and built his current work around a deeper question: not just how to become stronger, but what strength is actually for.

In this episode of Dave Tate’s Table Talk, Dave and Ben discuss powerlifting, bodybuilding, PEDs, risk tolerance, coaching, deadlift training, personal realizations, and how the meaning of strength changes over time.

Watch the full episode on the elitefts YouTube eliteftsofficial

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