# @elitefts on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Db8idQNvQTK
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-12T15:59:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** elitefts (@eliteftsofficial) — https://gondola.cc/eliteftsofficial

## Caption

🚨 LIVE tomorrow, August 13th! 🚨 

 On episode #436 of Dave Tate’s Table Talk Podcast, Dave and Tom welcome back Ben Mayfield-Smith.

Ben Mayfield-Smith is the Director and head coach of Matter Athletica, an Australian high-performance coaching company, and the host of The Matter Mentality Podcast. 

Uniquely for a physique coach, Ben is clinical-psychology trained — completing a Bachelor of Behavior Science and certified in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy and the Stages of Change model — on top of a full stack of fitness, strength-and-conditioning, and sports-nutrition qualifications. 

His approach treats prep as far more than sets, reps, and macros: before he’ll coach an athlete toward the stage, he screens their psychology, lifestyle, relationships, career, stress, finances, and health for genuine readiness, and he’s openly willing to talk people out of competing. 

In this episode, he returns to Table Talk to go deeper on the psychology of bodybuilding: pre-prep readiness, why most people shouldn’t compete, building identity before the stage rather than during it, prep as an identity stress test, and the post-show health phase almost no one talks about — restoring health, relationships, and a sustainable life after the lights go down.

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