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Why I Choose To Be STRONG – Inspiration From My Son

I am psyched to get this day rolling for you! I hope your weekend was amazing and you got some brutal training in. I feel GREAT after the Level 2 Underground Strength Coach Certification that we just had at the

Why You Must Improve Your Posture & Train For Life

I just had an amazing weekend in Alexandria, Va. My family and I took a short weekend trip to hang with great friends and get my learn ON. Kelly Starrett was in the house for a private seminar at Trident

Odd Object Lifting For “Functional Strength”

Through my own experiences as an athlete and training other athletes, I was taught a powerful lesson that was once (and perhaps still is seen as a fad): Training ONLY with free weights and bodyweight exercises is limiting your potential

The 9 Best Sandbag Strength Training Exercises

Sandbag training has been one of the most powerful methods I’ve implemented with training my athletes. The various sandbag workouts & exercises have developed a type of strength and mental toughness that is unique to say the least. Using sandbags

Learning The Olympic Lifts, Part II

One of the toughest Olympic Lifting exercises for me to learn (STILL learning, ALWAYS learning!) was the power clean. Some of my problems were common problems for other aspiring Olympic Lifters as well: – My wrists were extremely tight –

Learning The Olympic Lifts

Years and years ago Coach Reeve told me how he would train his Football players while also playing videos on TVs of The IronMind Olympic Lifting Training Halls. I snatched up those highlight DVDs immediately and the footage blew me

Underground Strength Program Design Tips – Part 2

Here is Part II on our Underground Strength program design tips. My training model, for the most part, follows the concurrent method, where we focus on training strength, power, conditioning and muscle building in one workout. In this video I

4 Program Design Tips For Underground Strength Workouts

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7zV1zjABFI[/youtube] Now you’ve got a little insight into how I program workouts at The Underground Strength Gym, as well as how you can tweak these workouts if you utilize CrossFit as your training protocol, here are 4 critical

Underground Strength Workout Feb. 18, 2013

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDoUHdhoOpo[/youtube] Take your training outdoors. Find an empty school parking lot when school is closed or go behind a strip plaza for some wide open space with no foot or car traffic. Use 1 or 2 Kettlebells for

2 Lessons For All Men

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jM_lHyWhiM&feature=share&list=UUqfeXppJ0gH-xMteusTeVEg[/youtube] Drop your comments below. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts! Live The Code –Z–  

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