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When we got to talking about the numbers that I threw on Sunday, he said I would have dominated hi conferene. I thought,  A 46-year-old man would have won his conference  that s amazing.  <br>Dan s athletic accomplishments and practial coaching wisdom eventually caught the attention of BFS President Dr. Greg ; "So," tells Oerter, "on that second thr 1980 at the Hill Air Force Base Powerlifting meet, where Dan was competing for the Utah State Powerlifting Team. Recalls Dan,  It was about two in the morning during the deadlift competition, and I was sitting around in the warm-up room when Greg came up to me and asked me what I was opening wit. I said I was starting light at 573 pounds, just to get a mark, and I think it almost knocked Greg down. After that w kept bumping into each other at competitions, and then I started workig out at the Upper Limit Gym when it opened up. That was a great place to work out because the Utah Jazz trained there, and Greg and his BFS staff mae certain they took their lifting seriously. One day when I was working out Greg asked me if I wanted to work at the gym, and I accepted. That starte my relationship with BFS. <br>If there s one maor struggle Dan has had as an athlete, it s with his bodyweight. In college it was as high as 272, which Dan says was pretty solid because he was lifting hard. Dan was able to lean down after college; he quit training from 1981 to 1987 to concentrate on his career. When he got back into training he allowed his bodyweight to go up again, and by 1995 he accepted the fact that he was fat and had to do something about it. <br>To get lean, Dan went on a low-car, high-protein diet. Dan s description of a good breakfast:  meat, eggs and other stuff. A bad breakfast: not meat, eggs, and other stuff. In a few months he dropped 50 pounds.  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