🚨 LIVE tomorrow, August 10th! 🚨 On episode #435 of Dave Tate’s Table Talk Podcast, Dave sits down with Chandler Parsons. Chandler Parsons has spent his life under the barbell. He started powerlifting at 13 and turned two backyard clients into Backyard Barbell, a hardcore powerlifting and strongman gym in San Jose, California, that he’s run for over a decade. As a competitor he built a 2,044 total at 275 (727 squat / 520 bench / 832 deadlift); as a coach, he’s guided 50-plus state, American, and world records. Now he’s opened a second facility — Fortified Iron Gym in Austin, Texas, built almost entirely on USA- and Texas-made equipment — stepped away from competing, and trains under Josh Bryant for overall function and physical preparedness. In this episode, Dave and Chandler get into building and running gyms across two coasts, the honest math of strong-vs-shredded-vs-natural, why he’ll turn a client away, overcoming injuries, and how to stay in love with training after the...