Enjoy the audio interrogation with Coach Ripp.

Yes, a little static in the first 2 minutes but then it goes away. Have mercy on me as my office is out of a military back pack since moving and I don’t have a land line

The information is Golden. What else would you expect from Coach Ripp?

It is men Like Ripp, Dave Tate, Louie Simmons and Coach Reeve who have helped me mold my own methods into what they have become today.

Click HERE to Listen

Drop a comment or question below.

For more on Coach Rippetoe, visit http://StartingStrength.com

Happy New Year!

–Z–

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I receive countless e mails asking me how I get so much done without fail. How I balance my business with family life, lifting, answering e mails, vacations, and more?

I’m also starting a NEW business (On the DL for now) and just bought a new house.

I do my best to answer in the video below.

If you have good stuff to add about YOUR ‘Art of Living’, feel free to drop a line!

Peace

–Z–

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There are MANY secrets out there teaching you how to get strong as hell, add 2 inches to your biceps overnight, add 20 lbs of muscle in 2 weeks….

But, there is a “Secret” that so many have forgotten to tell you about.

It’s called Gut Bustin’, Hard F***ing Work!

Yep….. Das da truth, Baby.

And let me let you in on another secret, my friend, the training isn’t just what you do when you’re in the gym or where ever it is you do your iron lifting.

It’s ALSO what you do when you’re NOT in the gym.

This is when some REAL discipline kicks in.

Are you eating enough?

Are you eating the RIGHT foods that support muscle growth?

Do you sleep enough?

Do you do the RIGHT things when nobody is looking?

Training might only take as little as 2 – 3 hours a week if you train in short 30-45 minute bursts a few times a week.

But, what about all the other hours that fill up your day and night?

If you’re an athlete, it means working on your weak areas and transforming your weakness into a strength.

It means constant pushing towards mastering your skill, going the extra inch as often as possible and NOT allowing yourself to hang out or associate with weak minded people.

The pussification of the human race is rising.

People fear hard work and they seem to much rather enjoy getting fat(ter), lazy(er) and sitting on the couch watching Football games as they scream at professional athletes for not living up to their athetic standards (Yes, I know, VERY ironic).

You’re either in the fight against the pussification of the human or you’re supporting it.

Drop a comment below and let everyone know what you’re doing to become a BEAST.

Lead from the Front.

Peace

–Z–

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Wanna get strong as Hell?

Or, in Dan John’s words, “this one exercise will make you awesome”

Watch this short video.

That’s me, throwing around a 130 lb dumbbell.

The movement: The 1 Arm Dumbbell Clean & Press. Equally awesome with a barbell.

I suggest you do it. And do it often.

Remember, for REAL world results, you gotta train with intensity, passion, a plan and you need to move weight.

Be a BEAST. Become the Hunter, NOT the hunted.

Till the next time….

–Z–

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Yes, I admit it, people complaining about my workouts or calling them crazy only stokes my fire and makes me crazier.

Check out the inside look of my latest ‘NO Rules Workout’

More NO Rules Workouts to come.

If you want the Blue Print on Underground Strength Training and workouts to follow, and you do NOT fear crazy workouts, click HERE.

Expect to become stronger, faster, leaner and meaner than ever before with my Underground Strength and Muscle Building System.

Peace!

–Z–

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Joe DeFranco just released our TOP Rules to live by when building your own warehouse gym business HERE.

Rather than do what Joe & I did, which is the investment of tens of thousands of dollars on business services & products, you can get it ALL for a fraction of the price and in a fraction of the price. Click HERE to take action.

Check us out as we’re “Ridin’ Dirty” talkin’ Biz and you will get a taste of what’s coming your way when you get Lost Secrets of Strength: The Business Files.

The above videos just dropped GOLD on how to get your Warehouse Gym pumping.

There is TONS more Right HERE, get yourself a nice holiday gift HERE.

Peace!

–Z–

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Article by Henry Rollins

‘Iron’

I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself.

Completely.

When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me “garbage can” and telling me I’d be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students.

I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn’t run home crying, wondering why. I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at. A spaz. I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy.

I hated myself all the time.

As stupid at it seems now, I wanted to talk like them, dress like them, carry myself with the ease of knowing that I wasn’t going to get pounded in the hallway between classes. Years passed and I learned to keep it all inside. I only talked to a few boys in my grade. Other losers. Some of them are to this day the greatest people I have ever known.

Hang out with a guy who has had his head flushed down a toilet a few times, treat him with respect, and you’ll find a faithful friend forever. But even with friends, school sucked. Teachers gave me hard time. I didn’t think much of them either.

Then came Mr. Pepperman, my advisor. He was a powerfully built Vietnam veteran, and he was scary. No one ever talked out of turn in his class. Once one kid did and Mr. P. lifted him off the ground and pinned him to the blackboard. Mr. P. could see that I was in bad shape, and one Friday in October he asked me if I had ever worked out with weights. I told him no. He told me that I was going to take some of the money that I had saved and buy a hundred-pound set of weights at Sears.

As I left his office, I started to think of things I would say to him on Monday when he asked about the weights that I was not going to buy. Still, it made me feel special. My father never really got that close to caring. On Saturday I bought the weights, but I couldn’t even drag them to my mom’s car. An attendant laughed at me as he put them on a dolly.

Monday came and I was called into Mr. P.’s office after school. He said that he was going to show me how to work out. He was going to put me on a program and start hitting me in the solar plexus in the hallway when I wasn’t looking. When I could take the punch we would know that we were getting somewhere. At no time was I to look at myself in the mirror or tell anyone at school what I was doing. In the gym he showed me ten basic exercises. I paid more attention than I ever did in any of my classes. I didn’t want to blow it. I went home that night and started right in.

Weeks passed, and every once in a while Mr. P. would give me a shot and drop me in the hallway, sending my books flying. The other students didn’t know what to think. More weeks passed, and I was steadily adding new weights to the bar.

I could sense the power inside my body growing. I could feel it.

Right before Christmas break I was walking to class, and from out of nowhere Mr. Pepperman appeared and gave me a shot in the chest. I laughed and kept going. He said I could look at myself now. I got home and ran to the bathroom and pulled off my shirt. I saw a body, not just the shell that housed my stomach and my heart. My biceps bulged. My chest had definition.

I felt strong. It was the first time I can remember having a sense of myself. I had done something and no one could ever take it away. You couldn’t say shit to me.

It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn’t teach you anything.

That’s the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you.

It wasn’t until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can’t be as bad as that workout.

I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

I have never met a truly strong person who didn’t have self-respect.

I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt passes itself off as self-respect: the idea of raising yourself by stepping on someone’s shoulders instead of doing it yourself. When I see guys working out for cosmetic reasons, I see vanity exposing them in the worst way, as cartoon characters, billboards for imbalance and insecurity.

Strength reveals itself through character. It is the difference between bouncers who get off strong-arming people and Mr. Pepperman.

Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.

Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long. I have some of my most romantic thoughts when I am with the Iron. Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.

Everything in me wanted her. So much so that sex was only a fraction of my total desire. It was the single most intense love I have ever felt, but she lived far away and I didn’t see her very often. Working out was a healthy way of dealing with the loneliness. To this day, when I work out I usually listen to ballads.

I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Learning about what you’re made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher.

The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it’s some kind of miracle if you’re not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.

I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.

- Henry Rollins-

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You want to bookmark this Blog Post. Come back & read it often.

Henry Rollins speaks the truth, not many people can describe the iron as he does.

Henry Rollins is a soul lifter, just as I am.

Drop a comment.

–Z–

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Kicking Ass isn’t for everyone. Period.

It’s too hard.

I’m too tired.

It’s too expensive.

A family emergency came up.

I’m busy.

I don’t have time.

Excuses piss me off.

On the flip side, excuses are fine by me because that makes it easier  to get to the top.

Those who win have no excuses. They bull doze through anything that gets in their way.

If something goes wrong, they take responsibility and learn from their mistakes.

There is no…..

Next year…

Next time…

My girlfriend…

My boyfriend….

It’s amazing to see the excuses I hear and see so many use and actually believe. Excuse makers brainwash themselves and give them self the Green Light to fail.

In life, you must be a Hunter. If not, you become the Hunted. It’s your choice.

There are people out there right now, busting their ass to get ahead, while you sulk.

Some wake up early and go to bed late, but they LOVE what they do…. like me.

I’m sure that if you’re going through a tough time right now, someone else is going through a tougher time and still kicking ass and taking names. Did you listen to my audio interview with Dan John? His BIGGEST lesson learned came from losing.

If you haven’t listened yet, you’ve got homework, my friend. You will learn a lot, and learning is part of the game. Getting under the bar is the BIGGEST part of the game.

That holds true for those who wanna get strong and jacked as well as the business peeps out there. I am shocked at how many business owners or aspiring business owners feel they don’t need to learn more training, just more business. Training IS the business.

If training, business or life isn’t going your way. You need to do something about it.

It’s your decision. Completely up to you. Circumstances will and can control you, if you let them.

Or, you can decide to say F**K it, and react your own way and dominate as you wish. It will NOT be easy. There will be blood on the bar and you will probably feel some fear.

Fear is GOOD. It means you have stepped outside your comfort zone and have strayed from the norm.

Normal actions = Normal results.

Surround yourself with the right people and the right information if you want to win.

The wrong people and wrong information will bring you down. Once again, this holds true for business and in life. I rarely have training partners because far and few between want to train like a madman.

Even I need a reminder sometimes.

I have my flaws, we all can agree on that, but I have gotten very good at facing adversity and dominating.

I dominate because I choose to dominate.

My mental toughness has been cultivating since my days as a wrestler. The days when I got my ass handed to me. I learned through failure. I refuse to lose. Been there, done that. Times are different now, my bruddahs and ladies.

I am highly motivated to win and succeed at everything I do.

I can NOT motivate you, that must come from within.

I will give you the tools to kick ass and take names, from there, you must take the necessary action steps and put the wheels in motion if you want to kick ass and take names.

Kicking Ass….It’s not for everyone, I used to think it was for the top 10%, then I thought it was for life’s top 5%, then I had a phone conversation with my friend and mentor, Alwyn Cosgrove, and we both agreed that it’s less than the top 1%!

Whether it is training, business or anything else in life, start taking action and start being a warrior. It’s a mind set shift, that is where it begins. But ACTION is what is necessary.

Don’t read all those mindset books and then sit on your ass hoping for jacked up muscles to appear or the life of your dreams to suddenyl pop up because you sat under a tree and meditated.

No one reaches the top with out working for it.

Peace!

–Z–

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Check out my interrogation with Dan John.

I gotta say, guys like Dan John, Coach Ethan Reeve – these guys are amazing coaches, but also a bit crazy. I feel related to them – kinda like we’re from the same mentally crazy Strength Tribe.

Thoughts or comments on the audio, drop a comment below, looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Peace!

–Z–

Click HERE to Play The Dan John Audio (be patient as it uploads

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http://UndergroundKettlebells.com

http://UndergroundSandbag.com

http://UndergroundStrengthManual.com

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I am NOT an Olympic Lifter so don’t cry over my shitty power clean technique.

The mere fact that you are about to be ripping weights off the ground and throwing it overhead counts BIG time.

Check this Vid, Kids….

After you warm up, get a light weight on the bar, for me, I stayed at 135 lbs.

Perform the following reps: 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 8, 5, 3, 2

Rest periods were 1 minute maximum, on the lower rep sets I rested 30 seconds.

This workout busted me up REAL Nice

Back in the day, the test of a Man’s Strength was how much weight he was able to rip off the ground and lock out overhead. Today, the question is always “How much can you Bench?”

BOTH are great movements, but if I’m looking for all around strength and power you can NOT beat ripping objects off the ground and pressing them overhead.

You can even try an ALL OVERHEAD workout, where you hit 5 – 10 reps of a clean and press with countless objects: stones, sandbags, 1 kettlebell, double kettlebells, barbell, swiss bar, log bar, dumbbell, 2 dumbbells, anvil, etc.

Coach Ethan Reeve had a similar workout as he trained for wrestling through college and become a 2 time all American. You can hear all about his past and present methods that have influenced me as well as how other greats have influenced me.

Click HERE to see what I mean.

Peace!

–Z–

Jack Up Your I Pod and Get Yourself JACKED UP!!

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