Have you ever wanted to bend steel bars, spikes and horse shoes? 

Rip full decks of cards into shreds? 

Perform feats of strength as part of a message for a crowd of people?

Get PAID $$$ to do these things?

My name is Iron Tamer Dave Whitley and since I was a kid, I dreamed of having SuperHuman Powers, specifically SuperHuman STRENGTH. I started training with weights before I was a teenager and have been doing it ever since. 

In 2007, my late friend and strength LEGEND Bud Jeffries showed me how to bend a piece of four foot long steel into a loop. I was immediately obsessed with the idea of being a steel-bending, card ripping performing strongman. Soon after that, Bud introduced me to Grandmaster Dennis Rogers, who founded Oldetime Strongman University in 2008.

At the OSU workshop, Dennis taught me how to bend my first 60 penny nail, mangle a horseshoe, rip a deck of cards, and drive a nail through a board with the palm of my hand.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Dennis brought his talent to the big stage and developed the marketing techniques that made his the most successful vaudeville style strongman show in the last half century, both financially and in popularity. He took the strength performer from the sideshow to the main stage.

Applying what I learned from him and updating the approach to embrace the digital age, I committed to carrying the tradition of the strength performer into the future.

Since then I have performed all over the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia, had multiples TV appearances, was in a movie which starred my childhood hero Lou Ferrigno and earned a full time living performing, speaking and coaching.

Over the years I have met, talked to, trained with and learned from many of the best performing strongmen in the world. All of them (obviously myself included) can trace a line back to Dennis.

In January 2020, Dennis retired from shows and teaching, passing the torch to me and appointing me President of OSU.

And then the pandemic came.  Shows got cancelled. Plans for the next Oldtime Strongman University workshop were set aside.

Until Now.

I am excited to announce that on August 26 and 27, the next Oldtime Strongman University Seminar will be held in Austin, TX at

Tao Health & Fitness

4505 Terry-O Ln b201

Austin, TX 78745

In this 2-day comprehensive workshop you will learn EVERYTHING you need to know to get started as a professional strength performer:

FEATS OF STRENGTH

The details of performing and mastering a variety of feats of strength including what we call the Big 5:

- Bending short spikes, also called unbraced bending.

- Bending longer steel bars, known as braced bending.

- Twisting horseshoes

- Ripping decks of cards

- Driving a nail through a board without a hammer

But that’s not all! 

SUPPLEMENTAL TRAINING

Specific practice is key to performing feats of strength. Supplemental training is they critical for injury prevention and staying healthy.

- Training principles

- Auxiliary training

- How to make perpetual progress

MINDSET

"The Mind Controls the Body" -Grandmaster Dennis Rogers.

Understanding this allows you to eliminate fear, doubt and uncertainty, not just in your strength practice, but also in other areas of your life. This is where the true power lies.

- Techniques for Mental Rehearsal

- Goal setting and achievement...that actually works

- Develop Unshakeable Belief in yourself and your abilities

SHOWMANSHIP AND CREATIVITY: Learn to stand out as an original performer so that you can deliver your message and leave an impression on the crowd.

DEVELOPING YOUR MESSAGE AND STORYTELLING: In my years of speaking and performing one fact has been proven true over and over again. When the show is over and everyone goes home, people will for get what you did, they will for get what you said but they ALWAYS remember how your show made them FEEL. Your message and how you deliver it are what connects you with the crowd.

HOW TO GET PAID: Don’t be the strongest broke guy on instagram! will educate you on how to get PAID for performing feats of strength. In fact, after I went through OSU in 2008, I made my full seminar fee back from my very first performance!

- Get clear on your niche- WHO is in your audience matters!

- Finding events.

- How to connect and follow up with event organizers.

For the first 3 people who register- 1:1 bonus coaching call with me.

Imagine yourself on stage, doing impossible feats of strength and getting paid to do it. Join this workshop and discover to how to make it a reality.

Early registration price is $747 and will go to $947 after the first 5 people register. Be one of those first 5!

The early registration discount spots are all FULL now!