Who We Are

Mental Meat Heads is the brainchild of Dave Hall and Chip Conrad. It started in early 2012 with a chance blog post and an email. From there a conversation ensued and two like minded misfits of the fitness industry found common ground and a heart felt desire to make a positive impact on the fitness industry.

Chip Conrad

Chip Conrad is the founder of Bodytribe Fitness, the hub of the Physical Sub-Culture on the West Coast. Bodytribe is a quiet conglomeration of dedicated folk who embrace their joy of life through strength and movement. Best surmised the Bodytribe motto is: Better choices today bring more choices tomorrow.

Competitive weight lifter, savior of strays, powerlifter, historian of Physical Culture, West Coast Punk enthusiast, haole, movement specialist and generalist, Chip is the author of countless articles, blogs and a ‘must-have’ addition to your lifting library, Lift with Your Head.

He’s also produced several DVDs. most recently a workshop with Dan John. A thinking man’s meat head, Chip has had the honor of working with and training under some of the greatest lifter’s in U.S. History including Mel Siff, Tommy Kono, Jim Schmitz, Dan John, and Jan and Terry Todd. Chip lives and trains in Sacramento, California with a merry band of dedicated misfits, his cat, Jack, and his rescued pitbull, Scarlet.

Dave Hall

Dave is the owner of Agoge Fitness Systems in Birmingham, Alabama. AFS prides itself as being a haven for those whose fitness journeys don’t quite mesh with the mainstream. Lauded as The gym for people who don’t like gyms AFS seeks to help anyone and everyone who’s looking to improve their lives and maximize their potential, regardless of their starting point.

Dave started his career in fitness relatively late, beginning by teaching martial arts classes, moving on to personal training and now owning and operating his own gym. Not satisfied with having merely a local impact Dave has sought to affect the fitness industry as a whole. Mental Meat Heads is a vehicle to that end.

Dave actively engages in powerlifitng, boxing, Filipino martial arts, mas wrestling and any other form of movement his body or imagination will allow. He lives in the hills surrounding the Cahaba River with his wife, three daughters, mother-in-law, two German Shepards, three cats, and three goats.