So, the last video really had your emotions stirred up. Some were pissed off that I was pissed at a kid who was once natural went the drug route and talked a BIG game with nothing to back it up.
When I’m asked to describe my own workouts, they tend to be coined as something called Power-Bodybuilding.
We are ALL “bodybuilders” – we build our body, period.
Here is a recent workout of my very own, check it out:
1) Zercher Squat 5 x 1 – 5 reps
2A) Double Kettlebell Clean & Press 4 x 5
2B) Mixed Grip Pull Ups 4 x max reps
3A) Grip work using Rolling Thunder, Hex Dumbbell Holds & Captains of Crush for 6 sets total
3B) abdominal work using gymnastics rings for stability and various angles of planks.
4) Sled / Prowler work: 4 x 200′
Tell us about a recent favorite workout of yours and what your goals are.
Looking forward to seeing and sharing some kick ass workouts!
Kill it!
–Coach Z–
PS: I have a FREE training manual for you HERE. You definitely wanna check this out!
Filed under Announcements, Articles, Strength Building, Zach's Workouts, muscle building by on Apr 1st, 2009. 11 Comments. 
Last June I held the first ever USC Certification. Dudes rolled up from all over the USA AND around the world. A few ladies have cruised through as well 
Everyone who follows the methods as I coach them through goes on to kick major ASS and start doing what they love.
And they do this all without the investments, the partners, the loans and the pocket emptying expenses that most dudes experience.
Things are changing BIG time with The USC Cert and this April 25 and 26 will be the LAST USC Certification of it’s kind.
That’s right, I will NOT be holding another certification course like this where my A – Z business blue print and training system is dished out so candidly. I can’t reveal the details of where Underground is going just yet, but it is going to be KICK ASS and will actually offer Bigger & Better things for those who take the step towards liberating themselves and going for what they want!
Things are changing….
Let me just say this is James Bond type info and I will be taking REALLY GREAT CARE of those who are on the inside of The Underground Family.
OK, OK, maybe since I’m from Jersey this is more Soprano’s Mob type stuff rather than James Bond type stuff
In a nut shell, those who attend the last USC Cert of it’s kind this April will have a special IN on the upcoming changes coming to The Underground. I announced this before and I am annoucning it again – NO tire kickers allowed, just those who wanna go after their dreams hard core style!
Let me preface all this by saying that the upcoming changes are geared towards those who REALLY want to do what they love while running a business on their own terms!
Where was I 4 Years Ago….
Heck, 4 years ago I was training athletes at thugged out playgrounds where people smoked pot and drank beer and today I run the gym of my dreams, 2 – 3 hours a day, making a full time income, NO weekends AND we have a waiting list to get in.
You Dig bruddah?
Kill it!
–Coach Z–
PS: I rocked out a SUPER EZ payment plan for this April’s USC Cert.
It’s so cheap, it ain’t even funny!
Filed under Announcements, Articles, Calendar, Success, marketing by on Apr 2nd, 2009. 1 Comment.
I’m a BIG believer in carriyng heavy shit.
It requires you to perform an explosive power clean at the beginning of every set.
Then, you must wrestle the object into position.
Carrying the objects in different positions force your trunk to work overtime and you must stabilize like a MoFo – you dig bruddah?
Watch this video and see all the “equipment” you can carry!
There is plenty of “equipment” you can carry in addition to what you just saw.
What are you gonna carry at the beginning or end of your next workout?
Tell us about it and let’s see who can come up with some kick ass ideas!
Post your comments below!
–Z–
PS: Check out this article I wrote, you will dig it! Click HERE.
PPS: Want some sandbags? Check these bad boys out!
Filed under Articles, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, muscle building by on Apr 2nd, 2009. 5 Comments.
The people who are crying over who started to train with sandbags first can finally SHUT UP!!
Before any of us were BORN athletes, strongmen and military were using sandbags.
I have books from the early 1900′s and late 1800′s showing this.
The cool thing about sandbags is you can use them for strength, power, adding muscle / bodybuilding and / or general physical conditioning.
There are NO rules and they are easy as heck to make!
Try doing this workout for a nice mix of strength AND bodybuilding training:
1A) Sandbag clean & press 5 x 5 reps
1B) mixed grip pull ups 5 x submax reps (leave 1 – 2 reps in the tank)
2A) Sandbag on shoulder step up 3 x 8 ea. leg
2B) push ups on rings 3 x max reps
3A) overhead sandbag carry 2 x 100′
3B) zercher sandbag carry 2 x 100′
That workout oughtta rock you BIG time and you can add this as a training day in addition to any of the training you do, regardless of your focus being bodybuilding, powerlifting or just pure strength training.
Give it a go and kill it!
–Z–
PS: Want more workouts just like what I showed you? Check out the Brand New Underground Sandbag Assault Course HERE!
PPS: Get your Underground Sandbags HERE
Filed under Articles, Strength Building, Zach's Workouts, muscle building by on Apr 3rd, 2009. 5 Comments.
Flip flops, deep dish York barbell plates, wooden floors, kick ass training partners and a kick ass atmosphere. What else did they need!?!?
We’re ALL “Bodybuilders” – like it or hate it, that’s the truth. We’re building our body and whoever you are reading this, you are simply using your own methods to make it look and perform the way you want it to.
I’ve been bodybuilding since age 13 and I have made a shit ton of mistakes. Many of which cost me today.
I am about to make a long list of my blunders below, many of which I am sure I will forget or leave out, but if you can help, go ahead, add your own mistakes to the list and tell us how you’ve learned and what you’re doing differently now.
- Copying the workouts in FLEX magazine – I did these set for set, rep for rep!
- ALWAYS doing forced reps, drop sets, negatives and other insane “intensity” techniques – I NEVER listened to my body. My attitude was that of a warrior and all I wanted to do was destroy my training partners and make them crawl out of the gym or quit before the workout was finished. I HAD TO WIN!
- Hello, my name is Zach, and I’m an iron addict – I trained 7 days a week and often trained 30 days in a row. HARD, every single workout. I also cut school 10 times a year so I could train in the morning and AGAIN at night. If you had more than 10 unexcused absences you went to summer school. I NEVER went to summer school
- Not enough ground based lifts - I did a boat load of exercises that allowed me to lie down or sit down.
- Not using the 50 + stones laying in my parents back yard, especially when I was a high school wrestler.
- Believing “functional” training was anything on 1 leg or using a stability ball
- Using wrist straps to hold all barbells and dumbbells which NEVER gave me stronger and deadly hands!
- Performing distance jogs - I would run 4 – 5 miles every other night starting 1 month out from wrestling season and did so all season long
- I stopped weight training in season during wrestling
- I did not utilize the jump rope nearly as much as I should have
- I should have played Football to make me meaner for wrestling
- I should have BELIEVED in EVERYTHING I did
- Not eating enough fruits and veggies on a daily basis
- Training TOO long each workout
- Not stretching
- Not incorporating recovery and prehab methods
I bet I can add a ton more to the list above, but you know how it goes, with a list so BIG, one too many things just slip my mind.
My time is NOW and so is yours. Focus on the NOW and in a nut shell, Kick Ass every second of every day!
Kill it!
–Z–
PS: Wanna do it the right way and Kick Ass when it comes to bodybuilding and strength training? Check out http://UndergroundStrengthCoach.com and get your FREE Gift: The Underground Sandbag Assault Course!
PPS: Wanna kick ass in the business world and do what you love? Let me show you how you can make it happen HERE.
Filed under Articles, Strength Building, Success, muscle building by on Apr 3rd, 2009. 6 Comments.
Just a quick heads up as I received a few e mails asking me about this.
I have a fr.ee E Course awaiting you at the bottom of every Blog post (including this one)
Even if you have been a subscriber to The Underground E Journal you can re-enter your name and e mail addy and you will be taken to a special page to claim your FREE gift.
This is for you regardless of how long or short you’ve been part of The Underground Journal.
So if you don’t have your course on ‘Freak Strength’ you wanna check it out asap by signing up below.
Also, many of you know I am a BIG believer in training with sandbags.
I created a course using sandbags exclusively which you can add to your current training
regime or just go buck wild and go sandbags and nothing else!
This course is called ‘The Underground Sandbag Assault’ and gives you my favorite exercises using sandbags as well as 11 workouts for you to follow which I guarantee will jack you up in strength, rock hard muscle and the development of your grip strength like never before.
Heck, if you combine the Underground Sandbag Course and The FREAK Strength Course you are going to be a deadly freaking weapon!
Only members of The Underground Strength Coach web site get this special added Gift – in addition to the many other perks of being a VIP member
==> http://www.undergroundstrengthcoach.com/public/10.cfm
Take action – that’s what separates the REAL go getters and the also rans in this world!
Kill it!
–Z–
Fr.ee Gift # 1: FREAK Strength Training Course
==> Simply enter your name & e mail address below this post
Fr.ee Gift # 2: The Underground Sandbag Assault
==> http://www.undergroundstrengthcoach.com/public/10.cfm
Filed under Announcements, Articles, Strength Building, muscle building by on Apr 4th, 2009. 1 Comment.
The common myth or misunderstanding is that if you train heavy and get stronger you will be fast as hell. Not so. To move like an athlete you must incorporate athletic movements: Sprints, Jumps, Crawls, Climbing, etc in ADDITION to heavy lifts as well as explosive lifts with resistance.
Check out 2 Football Players cranking some timed jumps for power endurance and some long jumps for power development.
Train heavy, train hard, jump fast, jump high!
There’s plenty more to add to the list!
Kill it!
–Coach Z–
PS: On Thursday, April 9th, 9 AM EST I will open the doors to the 2nd ‘Lost Secrets of Strength Seminar’ with Joe DeFranco. Location will be at my gym in the Dirty Jerzee. The sign ups will be right HERE on the blog. Last one sold out in 45 minutes, this one will sell out in 30 minutes Max.
PPS: Did you see the top secret, shocking videos I posted at http://UndergroundStrengthCoach.com with the Europeans revealing their shocking training methods? If not, you better haul ass and do so AND get your FREE Underground Sandbag Course as my gift to you!
Filed under Announcements, Articles, Underground Strength Show, Videos by on Apr 6th, 2009. Comment.
Please read this letter in its entirety.
If you have know me for some time, you’ve heard me speak about this guy, who I had never met in person before, yet he took me under his wing like a little brother, or, like he was my Uncle taking me under his wing.
Not sure what it was, but the guy thought I was alright, and I was sincere and genuine, and he saw I was super passionate about becoming successful and helping others by sharing with them what I do.
We exchanged e mails frequently, and one day our e mails became instant messages, and from there, it became a phone call….a 4 hour phone call.
This guy was doing something called “Pay it Forward” – because when he was an up and comer, everyone he asked to help him turned him down.
Our four hour phone call layed out the foundation and the blue print for my business.
Yes, I am serious, those 4 hours shot me to the top ASAP!
The shocking thing about this was that the entire time we were on the phone, I didn’t know that my friend was taking away his rest time to chat with me.
Why did he need to rest? He had tubes sticking in and out of his chest from plenty of angles, and he was going head to head, toe to toe with Stage IV Cancer.
Yea, you think you’re tough – you ain’t shit compared to this guy.
The man’s name is Alwyn Cosgrove – man or machine, not sure which he is, but this guy is beyond what my words can describe.
Whatever I try to say or do doesn’t mean or amount to 1/100th of a fraction of what this man has done for me.
In fact, if it wasn’t for Alwyn, you and I would probably not have the relationship we have. I would not have this Blog, my gym, or the knowledge to spread my wisdom your way.
Alwyn has left a legacy inside of me.
In addition, he has helped spread the knowledge and passion that has allowed him to be successful.
More importantly, he has followed the adage of “Pay it Forward”
Every year I run a fundraiser called ‘LIFT STRONG.
It was created by Alwyn, just like Lance Armstrong has LIVE Strong.
There is also a CD Rom of approx. 800 pages with AWESOME strength and conditioning articles.
100% benefits The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
If you could, please Pay it Forward and picking up 1 copy of http://LiftStrong.com
Please spread the word by sharing this link or Blog Post or doing anything you can to spread the word of http://LiftStrong.com
In Strength,
–Coach Z–
Filed under Announcements, Articles, Success by on Apr 6th, 2009. 4 Comments.
OK, BIG News…watch the videos below and mark your calendar for Thursday, April 9th at 9 AM EST
Joe DeFranco and I are gonna light up the state of NJ with the energy that’s gonna bust out of this seminar!
Watch the Announcement below!
Watch a highlight from the FIRST Lost Secrets of Strength Seminar!
OK, you know the dealio now.
15 people, first 15 in and then i will shut down the Sign Up Link.
We’ll grab lunch together at a REAL Italian Pizzaria with great food.
Training will be in the morning, then lunch, then Q & A, then whatever you want!
YOU make the rules and tell us what you want and we will deliver!
You MUST be at my blog on Thursday, April 9 at 9 AM EST!
Be ready!
Kill it!
–Coach Z–
PS: Do you want to miss this seminar? This is the type of event you rearrange your anniversary for!!!!!
PPS: Joe & I guarantee that you will NEVER forget your time with us. It will be a life experience unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before. Hope to see you on May 9th at The Underground!
Filed under Announcements, Calendar, Success by on Apr 6th, 2009. 1 Comment.
OK Dudes, this is for my Bodybuilding Beasts who have asked me countless times how they can combine Underground training with their workouts at the regular gym.
If you are not bodybuilding like a beast and you only do powerlifting, strongman, etc this may not be for you. But who knows, you might decide you need a lil’ change of pace.
To combine the Underground training I do with some serious bodybuilding work is an AWESOME way to pack on muscle and gain serious strength and power.
I talk a lot about my days of training in the garage with only a 300 lb barbell set, a pair of 50 and 100 dumbbells and getting bigger and stronger than ever before. That was NO joke, I felt friggin’ awesome (until the garage dropped to 20 degrees!!) and packed on muscle unlike any other time.
So, here’s what I have for you. My buddy Vince Delmonte created his very own muscle building and nutrition program all on DVD. A lot of people think Vince is a pretty boy bodybuilder, but, I trained with him AND have seen his transformation – this dude trains like a beast and I respect that BIG time.
He might “look pretty” but he gets busy like a Machine on a Mission when he trains. Which is why he transformed himself from skinny bean pole into 210 lb ripped Beast!
He did all this NATURALLY. He is a guy who has REALLY lived what he is revealing to you.
When Vince told me about his project, to be honest, I was in a rut, because I didn’t have anything to help you supplement it with…..until I remembered about a long, lost DVD that I filmed at The Underground Strength Gym and did Nothing with it…until now.
Here’s a 10 Minute highlight of what is on the Behind the Scenes of The Underground DVD:
A Seriously Kick Ass way for you to get the most our of Vince’s program is to combine this Kick Ass DVD with Vince’s training and nutrition. It will be the ultimate blend of training for show AND go.
Vince’s program is available in limited quantity starting today, at 12 Noon, EST at http://UndergroundMuscleBuilding.com
If you purchase his program, here is what you do to get The Underground Strength Gym Behind the Scenes DVD from me, 100% FREE as a Bonus to supplement your Bodybuilding training with Vince.
1) Go to http://UndergroundMuscleBuilding.com
2) After your purchase, forward me your receipt via E Mail to UndergroundStrengthCoach@Gmail.com
I will forward your information (name & shipping address) to my fulfillment company who will then ship your Underground DVD pronto!
The Underground DVD is 1 hr and 44 minutes long! Take a look at what’s inside this DVD ($99 Value)
- Let me take you behind the scenes of my Underground Strength Gym, allowing you insider access to how I train my athletes followed by commentary of each workout so you know WHY things are done the way they are done! This is almost 2 hrs. of no holds barred footage not to be missed!
- Watch two Division 1 wrestlers get after it as they attack their workout with kettlebells, sandbags, bodyweight training and strongman work. This workout will get you so freaking hyped you’ll want to hit the gym ASAP, even if it’s 1 AM in the morning!
- Watch a crew of high school Football players warm up with mobility work and go through a rugged upper body workout with thick bars, heavy rubber bands, old school bodybuilding, strongman training, sledge hammer work, abdominal work and recovery work. This is how Gridirion Gladiators are made, NO Excuses!
- What happens when a crazy Judo athlete and a crew of crazy wrestlers train together? The motivations soars sky high and these athletes tear it up using Russian Kettlebells, thick bars, ropes and sandbags. You will also see a combat bodyweight circuit followed by recovery. Just watching this video oughtta send your heart rate through the roof!
- Strongman Circuits – Try this strongman circuit to explode your work capacity, strength endurance and mental toughness through the roof. Watch a Judo and BJJ warrior push himself to the limit with this outdoor strongman medley.
- How does Zach Even – Esh train himself? You gotta walk the walk if you train athletes and that means being strong and training hard and heavy. Stay with me and watch me go through a butt whoopin’ circuit using bodyweight, kettlebells, sleds and strongman tools. This is THE Underground Combat Circuit – it keeps you on your toes, that’s for damn sure J
- Another workout with Zach: Sometimes the body is beat up or I’m just not feeling the heavy weights, so, I take you through another workout of mine using heavy bands, challenging bodyweight drills and various rope climbing drills, the ultimate in physical culture.
So, if you’re serious about combining bodybuilding workouts with Underground workouts, this is for you, but, no joke, Vince only created a small supply so if you want in, watch your clock for 12 Noon, EST, and take action at http://UndergroundMuscleBuilding.com
Time for YOU to kill it!
–Z–
PS: Don’t forget, if you purchase your Muscle Building System from Vince and want my Behind the Scenes DVD, forward your receipt to my e mail at UndergroundStrengthCoach@gmail.com
PPS: Remember, my Bonus DVD for you is almost 2 hrs long with uncut workouts and post workout commentary from me, explaining to you exactly why we do what we do and how you can successfully use our methods!
Check out some of the Info you’re about to Receive as Your Bonus..
Filed under Announcements, Strength Building, Success, Videos, Zach's Workouts, muscle building by on Apr 7th, 2009. 3 Comments.
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