

"Most of us know what we want out of life, but only a handful of us have learned how to get it. With Raising the Bar, Dave Tate provides an exemplary text showing all that can be learned from a little time under the bar." - Justin Harris "Dave Tate has learned what it means to choose where you go instead of following where you're led, and he's learned it while standing under the enlightening strain of an unforgiving weight.

Order your copy of Raising the Bar, and let Dave Tate show you how to make your story just as remarkable. This is a remarkable book and Dave is a remarkable man, but he's a remarkable man who's no different from you, and that's what makes his story special. From a troubled childhood, passed off from one special education program to another and labeled "stupid" and "learning disabled," to the pitfalls of success, Dave takes the reader through the entire experience, demonstrating and teaching the strategies he's used throughout his life to prepare, perform and prevail in even the most hopeless situations imaginable. In Raising the Bar, Dave tells his entire story, warts and all. Then once he started writing it, there were sections people, numerous people, including some of his most trusted advisors, told him not to include. And there's more to his story than a simple, trouble-free climb to success.ĭave Tate didn't know whether he should write this book or not. Sure, it's a great story, but when a man is capable of building a business like elitefts™ from scratch, there's more to that man than his powerlifting total. Almost eleven years later, elitefts™ is arguably the most influential company and website in the industry.

Dave Tate started elitefts™ in 1998 on a second-hand computer in a spare bedroom of an apartment he shared with his wife. His own life.Įlite Fitness Systems is a multi-million dollar business that's currently at the forefront of virtually every innovation in the fitness industry. One in which a man, in the face of the conventional logic that dictates where we stand and what we should expect to be, found his own way.
