I’ve always been a BIG fan of Grip Strength and the countless benefits that come with bone crushing hand strength and jacked up forearms.
Check out this grip strength workout where I finished my upper body workout with.
And, below that video is a throwback, Episode 71 from The Underground Strength Show.
Here is what I want YOU to do.
Drop a comment with your favorite grip exercises or grip workout.
By the time we have a good 40 or 50 comments you will have a BOAT load of grip strength, hand strength and forearm exercises / workouts for you to add to your grip strength training arsenal.
Don’t forget to pick up your copy of Grip Experts – the compilation of information inside of this manual is BadAss.
Lead from the FRONT
–Z–
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Filed under Articles, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts, muscle building by on Jun 30th, 2010. 27 Comments. 
Above, The Sandbag ManMaker.
I’m a BIG Fan of NO Rules Training. Some people think I’m too much of a Rogue when it comes to training and they feel that I SHOULD be following the science and perfectly designed, unflawed workouts….
NO such thing as an unflawed workout. Every workout has Flaws. Period.
I’m 34 now. I’ve been getting under the bar for over 21 years now. Over 2 decades of sweat, pain, grinding weights out, pumping weights out, throwing weights, you name it….I’ve been there.
I speak from experience, in the trenches, NOT from sitting on my ass and sticking my nose in journals and never lifting anything heavier then a pencil.
With my experience, you KNOW when you need to break the rules and do some crazy stuff.
If you’re a newbee, then you need to take heed and be a little more systematic with your training.
My friend and strong as hell BEAST, Jim Wendler, and myself, BOTH agree that the worst thing to happen to the world of strength is the internet because people are no longer trying to figure things out on their own, instead, they are looking for some magical program or asking us to assess their undulating periodization program with circa max cycle phases.
This doesn’t mean that a lifter who has gotten in some experience can’t break the rules either though.
Remember: ALL workouts are flawed, even the workouts designed by the scientific experts.
Breaking the rules for a newbee might consist of carrying a sandbag for as far as possible in a 15 minute time frame, that movement in itself won’t be found in the note books of a scientific program and design book, but it’s gonna work every damn muscle in your body!
If you can’t hold the bag any longer, squat it down to the ground, rest 30 seconds and to pick it back up again, perform the power clean.
What will happen is rep after rep of power cleans and squats. The carries will attack every ounce of muscle on you body. Your mind will be tested, at times you’ll wanna give up and stop, but your inner warrior will tell you to push onward and upward, keep charging.
Is it time for you to break the rules?
Lead from the Front.
–Z–
PS: Get yourself a sandbag and start breaking the rules of training today. Your will quickly develop rugged muscle and brute strength unlike the lame results of your scientifically planned program and your mental toughness will be tested to new heights.
It’s certainly NOT for everyone, only those who want to become Warriors.
Get your Underground Sandbag HERE.
Filed under Articles, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts, muscle building by on Mar 7th, 2010. 3 Comments.
Try this workout below, in the video. It’s an oldie but a goody, a blast from the past if you will 
Get as many rounds as possible in 30 minutes.
You get 1 point for each round completed, NO half points
The name of the workout?
Damage Inc.
Here is your workout, Damage, Inc.
1. Hand Over Hand Sled / Tire Pull with Rope 50′ rope attached
2. Sprint x 150′
3. Pull Ups x Maxeps
4. Sprint x 150′
5. 1 Arm Kettlebell Snatches x 5 ea. hand
Drop a comment AFTER you’ve gone through Damage, Inc for 30 minutes.
I’m heading off to work with Blair Academy Wrestling team, the deadliest high school wrestling team in the country!
Drop a comment Bruddah!
Peace!
–Z–
PS: I love the http://UndergroundKettlebells.com – they got the right price, they are built like a tank, they fit just right, and they have a Nice, Thick handle for extra grip work so you can mold your entire body and hands into a bad ass wrecking machine! Niiiiiice
Filed under Articles, Strength Building, Videos, Zach's Workouts, muscle building by on Sep 2nd, 2009. 13 Comments.
How are you?
I hope this e mail finds you well, how the heck can it not?
I’m sending you yet another sick, pumpin’ strength vid!
You gotta be lovin’ this shiz
I’m lovin’ creating all these vids for you
Whoever said I wasn’t nice was wrong, ha ha
So, Im at it again and ‘They’ don’t want you to see what I’m giving away now…
I just released a killer, new, f-r-e-e video on how you can create a crushing grip and some
seriously jacked up forearms.
No more string beans dangling around on those lower arms of yours anymore.
Check this vid here:
==> http://www.undergroundstrengthcoach.com/public/473.cfm
In this video I show you…
-> 7 grip training tools
-> Rope climbing grip tips
-> Captains of Crush Gripper training
-> How I help my athletes create
powerful ‘vise-grip’ hands…
-> And a ‘hand-full’ of other grip training
insights you need to see…
===> http://www.undergroundstrengthcoach.com/public/473.cfm
If you’re a serious ‘strength addict’ like I am then you’ll want to come watch this video so you can get your ‘fix…’
I live for this stuff, it gets my blood pumping big time…
And I told you before, I bleed iron.
Hurry though…
I am not sure how long Ill be able to keep this free training video up before I get pressured by other trainers who don’t want me sharing all these killer training tips for f-r-e-e!
==> http://www.undergroundstrengthcoach.com/public/473.cfm
I am dedicated to exposing my best training tips to my group of die hard, ‘underground insiders’
I constantly share real, NO B.S. training techniques that you can start using TODAY to jack up your strength levels…
Come see 7 of my favorite grip tools here:
==> http://www.undergroundstrengthcoach.com/public/473.cfm
Like I said, I am taking some heat from other industry experts because I’m giving away the farm
in these f-r-e-e vids, so come watch it before I need to take it down…
Enjoy the video and Kill it!
–Coach Z–
PS: one more time, here’s the link to your special grip training vid, and yes, I kid you not, it’s f-r-e-e.
===> http://www.undergroundstrengthcoach.com/public/473.cfm
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Many years ago i found my way to Steve Maxwell’s web site. It was quite interesting, to see this renegade physical culturist creating his own style of training, following no rules, using what he had learned through decades of the martial arts and mastering his own body for training.
There were photos of him training with a pair of homemade kettlebells, they were silver and looked deadly! He was performing a bridge while pressing these two kettlebells.
I finally met Steve two years ago at the Ryan Lee Boot Camp and we chatted about grip training and grip strength, rope climbing and using kettlebells.
I was blown away to say the least.
Just yesterday, I shared the stage with Steve, as we co presented the Gladiator Seminar, which went from 10 AM – 6 PM with just a few short breaks for snacking and fluids. Want an amazing day it was and what an honor to learn from such an expert.
I was excited that I was able to teach Steve some new stuff! Who woulda known!
Lucky for you, we recorded every second, and that means this will be available for you to watch at home soon enough. I believe it came out to 7 or 8 tapes! That’s a boat load of info, and all the info was Steve and I cutting through the hype, showing ONLY what works, only what we use, no filler and no fluff.
After training with Steve, I am psyched even more so to hit the bodyweight training. I’ll be tearing up my backyard tonight with my power wheel and kettlebells.
Stay tuned for more stories from the Underground!
Kill it!
-Coach Z-
PS - I’ll be announcing the next USC cert soon. It’s coming, so be ready! Serious inquiries only, no cry babies, no whiners….I’m getting sick of those people
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I had heard about him using sandbags during his BJJ classes, homemade Russian Kettlebells, revolving pull up bars, a climbing rope in his house for his son and other wildly innovative methods that were a far cry from the popular stability ball and balance board afficionados.
His methods were in line with my way of thinking and he was certainly someone who was walking the walk being the first American Gracie BJJ Black Belt.
Read more on I heard stories about this guy……
Filed under Announcements, Articles, Success, Zach's Workouts by on Jun 4th, 2008. Comment.
I’m not sure if the newsstands can handle all the weight with 2 of my power packed, heavy hitting articles on them! ha ha
ok, ok, that was likely to be the worsed joke ever, but, if you’re at Barnes and Noble definitely check out my latest 2 articles in the following magazines:
TapOuT and Fighters Only
I can’t tell you exactly what’s in the two of them, but, without a doubt is more of my hard hitting information.
Check em’ out and let me know what you think.
Time to eat some lunch!
In Strength,
Zach Even – Esh
P.S. – I’m working really hard on something new, I feel it’s my best project to date. Stay tuned for something BIG coming very soon.
P.P.S. – It was around this very date, 4 years ago, when I released my first ever product, ‘Ancient Training for Modern Day Gladiators’. Ironically, it is still one of my bests sellers. It’s been updated since it’s initial release with a power packed teleseminar bonus I did not long ago, and if you go really BIG and get The Gladiator edition, you’ll love the added manual and Coach Ethan Reeve interview.
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Every Friday our ‘Gladiator Crew’ shows up to battle it out with some intense training.
A powerful mixture of powerlifting, strongman, old school bodybuilding and calisthenics are incorporated. They never know what might come next. Will it be a powerlifting focused workout, possibly tons of old school bodybuilding, or maybe an entire day of body mastery where we use nothnig but their own bodyweight?
Read more on Inside the Gladiator training program…
Filed under Articles, Zach's Workouts by on Apr 8th, 2008. 2 Comments.
Today I was passing by my old middle school
that I used to attend back in the late 80′s.
Wow that was a long time ago.
I remember listening to music on casette for crying
out loud. I also remembered a guy who was
a bit scarey to me and my friends yet I was
totally intrigued by him.
It just hit me today after all these years because
I passed by his house last night.
After school, while walking home, there was a house
around the corner from the middle school.
The driveway had a few barbells laying around, except
these were not your ordinary barbells. They were cement
weights with steel rims.
Read more on Who was that Freak?…
Filed under Articles by on Mar 25th, 2008. 2 Comments.
You can see my latest article in newsstands now, in Fighters Only Magazine, a UK based magazine but it hits world wide newsstands.
I LOVE the UK combat athletes. My first ever interview on the web was from a UK based web site, and I noticed one thing about these UK fighters: They LOVE hard training.
I have never received whining, cry baby e mails from UK fighters either. They are HUGE supporters of my Underground Training and Products as well.
I won’t tell you what’s inside this magazine, but you will certainly dig it.
So rush on out to your local Barnes and Noble and get yourself a copy!
In Strength,
Zach Even – Esh
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