About David
After completing a medical science degree with honours in muscle physiology, Dave started down an academic research pathway. Although this was rewarding, the results he was achieving coaching fellow lifters revealed such an undeniable talent that the lure of a career as a strength and powerlifting coach was too strong to ignore. He chose coaching over academia and has never looked back.
Being a strength coach has enabled Dave to combine two of his greatest passions in life: helping people and strength training. Over twenty years of lifting, coaching and refereeing at the highest level make Dave a rare commodity and asset for any competitive lifter. At the same time, Dave’s friendly and approachable style and natural teaching ability mean that he loves working with anybody who is keen to learn.
Credentials
20+ years of coaching and competing and still active today! Career results: https://www.openpowerlifting.org/u/DavidJame
Records and titles at national and international level.
Comprehensive International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) World Championship experience: one of the few Australian lifters to compete at both raw/classic and equipped world championships.
Head coach of the Australian team at multiple IPF championships (including IPF Classic (raw) Worlds). Australian team assistant coach at numerous other international events.
Refereeing at IPF level (including world championships)
One of Australia’s most experienced Powerlifting coach educators having delivered coaching courses all around Australia both publicly (in gyms) and privately (to the Australian Defence Force) and even co-delivering a USA Powerlifting course for an online American audience in 2023.