#436 Why You Should Never Bodybuild Ben Mayfield-Smith

Dave Tate's Table Talk by Dave Tate

Aug 13, 202602:12:16Sports & Recreation

Most lifters suffer through brutal competition preps not because they lack discipline, but because they are using a physical outcome to mask a broken identity. After a career-ending rugby injury shattered his athletic dr...

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