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Booya Baby!
OK, so maybe my overhead isn't heavy for YOU, but I'm pushin' for the 225 lb overhead push press. It's coming.....you will see.
Watch me get busy and see how I get innovative AND pumped....
Those swiss bar pull ups rocked like Old School Van Halen.
Please tell me you know who Van Halen is.....and David Lee Roth!
I'll surely be ordering some new power racks for The Underground shortly, guaranteed to have the monkey bars attached.
You do remember I eat pull ups for breakfast, eh mate? So should you, 10 pull ups is the minimum you should be able to pull, if your under 175 lbs, 20 reps is the minimum.
Wait till you see the rest of this upper body blastin' workout! It's bad ass and I got a crazy pump from it.
Drop a comment, let me know your thoughts on training, music, life, and why you plan to kick ass and take names and not be a slave to the norms of living!
Peace!
--Z--
PS: 1 spot left for this weekend's Underground Mentorship. Like I said many times before, I've had bruddahs sign up the night before, but this one is gonna rock. Afterwards dinner is on me, we'll catch some Football and chow down on some good grub, talk business, life and training as we ALL prepare to kick ass in life and follow our true passion.
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39 Responses
hell yeah bro! We are always rocking different variations of pull ups at the gym.
You can’t help but bring up the intensity! I like the idea with the swiss bar because you can easily change the grips. Great stuff as usual, Zach!
Breakthrough and conquer!
Ron
http://ultimateresource4ultimatefitness.blogspot.com/
these underground gyms remind me of the old days when gyms were gyms and not fitness clubs. Wish I had one in my area.
Z-
Van Halen got started right here in Pasadena,CA where I live.
Best,
Coop
What is underground freak strength?
Can you tell me more about it? What it will include, when it will be released?
Thanks!
Wicked variations on the pull up bro! Got to get me one of those Swiss sylee bars!
Was lucky enough to see VH at Monsters of Rock, Castle Donnington in 1984. Eddie had an off day and the bass solo sucked, but Diamond Dave was on fire!!!
Dude, that’s what I’m talking ’bout. 2 classics that will always bust you up, but get you strong as hell….presses & pull ups baby! Word!
Sincere~
Zach I love the swiss bar idea. I’ll try some neutral grip pullups in a couple days. What do you suggest for a pull push session using deadlifts as the pull? I want to do a push exercise that wont fry my chest since I already killed it yesterday with the EDT workout Elliot suggested in the interview.
Zach, I have noticed on many videos that you train barefoot, or with gym socks. why is that?
Myron – I know bro, I have a video coming out sometime next week of a “real” gym, and of course, it’s about to go “under” as the owner doesn’t know how to attract the hardcore guys.
There are many hardcore lifters, stuck going to work out world and retro fitness, forced to wear their i pods and train alone….
I am very tempted to open a gym model w/open membership for a flat monthly fee, problem is those places don’t make any money 🙁
One in Staten Island was supposedly amazing, hardcore, called johnny lats
it shut down 🙁
–z–
Nice Coop! I bet you had long hair back then you wild man!! ha ha ha
zero trooper!!! I remember monsters of rock, I was 13!! ha ha ha
Dude, Diamond Dave ALWAYS rocked!
–z–
Sincere poppin in’ – hit me up when you need me, this is why you’re “in”
–z–
Dennis, your shoulders might be all banged up from pressing so don’t do them too close together
–z–
Antwon – The Freak Strength Course is a 12 month course.
I upgraded and edited the entire 12 month course that was inside the underground strength manual
It’s a sick and f**ing awesome 12 month course.
I am beyond psyched w/what I have put together!!
Releasing sometime next week 🙂
–z–
van halen rocks as rocks your training session. love neutral pull-ups too, brings the guns great in play 🙂
far too many folks only do “normal” pull-ups. vary grip and hand spacing!
My gym doesnt have a swiss bar in the budget right now,but we do have chains hanging from our pullup bar. I use the crossover cable handles with carabiners connected to the horizontal portion of the chain to do neautral grip pullups.
Ive tried a few variations with other handles,including a lat pulldown bar,but those spin too much. The cable crossover handles are just unstable enough to be somewhat dynamic without being too difficult.
Yo Z! Is that imovie editing I see? Good stuff! I haven’t stopped doing pull-ups since I got out of the Marine Corps. I remember during the test I would do 10 palms forward and then while still hanging switch around to palms facing me and crank out 10 more for the 20 required for max points. Rocked my back and arms! Keep slaying the iron beast!
Okay! Sorry for my bad english, but what do you mean with a course?
Like a 12 month training program?
Thanks for the answer!
Hey zach what is heart rate when your lifting? Also whats the ideal heart rate for best results? peace out brudda.
Zach,
Awesome video. Especially liked the supersets you did with pull-ups and alternating hand position. That rack is stellar! Nice control on the overheads as well…
Mike
Zach:
I weigh in at 220 lbs. and pull-ups and chin-ups have always been tough for me. I can usually only get about 3 with a close grip. What’s the best way to build that number up to something respectable?
Thanks,
Mike
Zach, Love the classic lifts man
I started hitting the Rings this week for Pull Ups along with upside down vertical hangs and walkin on the paralell bars… Killer stuff.. The Ring Pull Ups are freakin awesome and have you feeling totally jakked
Couple this with the Hand Walks and Handstand Push Ups bro and you got a good part of my workout this mornin’
Cheers
AT
myron, (post 3) why wish for one in your area? DIY buddy, DIY! heck, i’ve made a lot of the gear i use in my basic gym at home(recently made first big purchase of squat rack after the old way became unsafe ;), the hardest part about doing it is training on ya own..
ZACH! YOU’RE A BEAST!!! WE AT THE V LOVE YA BABY!!! LOOKIN’ 4WORD TO SEEIN’ MORE CRAZY!!!! TALK AT YA SOON VINCENZO PAPPANO THE V-CENTER WYLIE TX.
Good effort!
Zack, is there an open style option over at your place or is it more of a one-on-one deal? Yea it sucks training in the commercial style gym where 99.99 percent of people are there to become “bodybuilders” and you get the strange looks when doing workouts that are out of the “norm”. When all said and done you gotta just let the beast out and not give 2 shits about where your getting it done.
God i love overhead lifting, keep carven it !!!
Yo Big T! Hells yea, pull ups are the shizza baby!
Everyone, EVERYONE should be able to hit 10 reps of pull ups.
Ya gotta have pulling power!!!!
–z–
Antown, yes bruddah, The Beast Strength Program is 12 months of workouts, you follow along month to month!
It’s sick Bruddah!
Thanks Antwon!
–z–
Jay – the sneakers offer too much support, very unnatural. This is a big reason why athletes who always wear their jacked up sneakers have ankle problems, toe problems, knee pain, etc.
Moving the body without support makes it stronger!
Barefoot training also teaches “rooting”, the feet muscles actively grab the floor when doing movements, or vice versa if need be. In sneakers they are not aggressively working.
–z–
Benajmin, I don’t measure heart rate or shit like that, I just attack and push the pace. I am more in tune w/my body that way.
–z–
Mike – work the pull ups almost daily, not in full blown workout format, but as Pavel calls grease the groove.
So almost daily, you will hit a few sets of pull ups through the day with submax effort, BUT, you’re always fresh when you hit ea. set
The regular practice will make you stronger
# 2) i have never seen you bro, but, you may need to shed some pounds while increasing strength / muscle to improve your relative body strength.
Still, I’ve always had dudes at my gym perform pull up s and recline rows, even the guys over 250 lbs!
BUT, the 250+ lb dudes were strong and lean!!
You must be highly motivated to crush them pull ups.
Check out my buddy Mike Guadango KILLING pull ups here and getting a lil’ crazy:
I thought I was a bad ass with 25 + pull ups till Mike crushed me!
Rob C I sent u an e mail regarding my Underground Strength Gym, bruddah!
Any questions, hit me up VIA e mail!
–Z–
Vincenzo back a’tcha bruddah!
Wow, I think I’m doing well at getting 8 pull-ups! 10 would be a good goal right now. 20??? I don’t know that I am woman enough to ever get there. And I weigh in around 105#.
I definitely prefer no shoes for working out, that way your proprioceptors get involved.
Cool decline chain set!
Thanks for being so hard-core!!
Debra! 8 pull ups is bad ass!!! VERY impressive!!
Most people, male or female, can’t even do 1!
you’re awesome!
–z–
Yo guys it is one good woorkout I already try it and it is great.Take care Z