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Zach Even-Esh

dr ken

5 Tips for Training Athletes for Strength AND Toughness

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There's a lot of chatter going on regarding training athletes for speed and strength. Some coaches feel we're not doing enough speed / sprint work. Others realize that MANY athletes are too weak to sprint properly. And, have we forgotten? We need athletes to be TOUGH. Give kids an opportunity to train on their own in a weight room today and you'll see some benching and lots of "chest work" and of course, lots of curls. NO back training. NO DEEP Squats. Farmer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Bodyweight Bodybuilding, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Powerlifting, Strength Building, Underground Strength Challenge, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: dr ken, high school strength & conditioning, kevin tolbert, lehigh wrestling, mental toughness, odd object training, strength training, strongman training, tire flip, tug of war, underground strength coach, underground strength gym

Iron Roots Podcast Ep. 3 | Training for Life | Dr. Ken

by Zach Even - Esh 5 Comments

  Here we go! Iron Roots Podcast, Episode 3. In this episode of Iron Roots, I talk about someone I NEVER met, yet he was a mentor to me from all of his writings & videos I had come across through the years. I am talking about none other than Dr. Ken Leistner. Dig in and enjoy the show! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Iron Roots, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: dr ken, episode 3, farmer walks, football strength, iron roots podcast, ken leistner, kevin tolbert, mike gentry, odd object training, old school bodybuilding, strongman training, tire flips, truck push, underground strength coach, underground strength gym, virginia tech football

The Hatfield Squat & Why You Should Know & Learn From The Old School Strength Books

by Zach Even - Esh 4 Comments

Do you know who wrote the book Super Squats? - Do you know what THE Super Squats training program looks like? - What about The GOMAD diet? What about Reg Park & the 5 x 5 method? - Have you read Arnold's Education of a Bodybuilder? Dr. Ken? What about Keys to Progress by John McCallum? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Powerlifting, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: arthur jones, dr ken, George Hackenschmidt, gomad diet, hatfield squat, HIT training, john mccallum, keys to progress, old school strength, old school strength books, Russian Lion, super squats, the way to live, underground strength gym

Don’t Play The Age Card & My 40th Birthday Workout

by Zach Even - Esh 10 Comments

I was on the phone with my buddy, AJ Roberts, a former world record holder in Powerlifting while he was a member at Westside Barbell, aka The Strongest Gym in the World. We were talking training, life, business, the usual..... We got to the training talk and I mentioned something about how I feel and he said, "Oh man, you're already playing that age card!" He was right. I was 38 or 39 at the time and I made up some poor excuse about training, how I feel because of my age and then proceeded … [Read more...]

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Neck Training, Gymnastics, Triathlon Training & Strength Coach Talk

by Zach Even - Esh 3 Comments

I asked for some questions to be thrown my way on Twitter and I got some GREAT questions. Thank you! I answer them below and now you can listen to The STRONG Life Podcast on iTunes and Stitcher Radio. The Questions I answer in this episode are: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Business, AWESOME Life, Bodyweight Bodybuilding, Muscle Building, Nutrition, Q & A, Strength Building, STRONG Life Podcast, Success, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: athlete cell, ben greenfield, brian mackenzie, certification, crossfit endurance, dr ken, neck training, nutrition, paleo, strength coach, triathlon training, twitter, underground strength coach

Odd Object Lifting For “Functional Strength”

by Zach Even - Esh 35 Comments

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 in developing strength above and beyond the "norm", especially if you're an athlete. The body quickly gets bored and adapts to training methods unless you implement variety. Variety can be the training tools, the speed of the exercises, the range of motion, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Business, AWESOME Life, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Powerlifting, Strength Building, Underground Strength Challenge, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: dr ken, football workouts, golden era bodybuilding, Grip Strength, ken leistner, mental toughness, real world strength, strongman workout, tire flipping, tire yard, tire yard edison, underground strength coach, underground strength gym, world's strongest man, wrestling workouts

35 Life & Lifting Lessons

by Zach Even - Esh 21 Comments

Holy S**t! In a few short weeks I'll be 36. Time goes fast. TOO Fast. Here's some stories and lessons I've learned along the way & hopefully you're not too cool to learn from some of these. Anyway, for no reason whatsoever I thought it would be legit to have a pic of Dr. Ken training with an empty bomb to remind you to push the limits :) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Business, AWESOME Life, Bodyweight Bodybuilding, Kettlebells, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Nutrition, Old School Strength, Olympic Lifting, Powerlifting, Q & A, Strength Building, Success, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: arnold, arnold bodybuilding, bodybuilding, dr ken, franco columbu, golden era, lessons in life, old school strength, powerlifting, pumping iron, soloflex, underground strength coach, underground strength gym, Wrestling, ymca metuchen

High Rep Squats to Man UP!

by Zach Even - Esh 24 Comments

Above, Greg Leistner squats 500 lbs for reps as Dad, Dr. Ken spots Sometimes you feel the need to kick your own ass.... At least I feel that way. I hope I am the norm and NOT the exception. I gotta make sure I still have that mental edge and pushing yourself into new territories of pain through training, especially high rep squats, will push you over the edge, trust me :) High rep squats are like the 'Man UP Medicine" - something about squats that cures almost everything in a WEAK Man. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Muscle Building, Strength Building, Success, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: beast strength, casey viator, college football, dan john, dr ken, high rep squats, HIT training, how to pack on muscle, kevin tolbert, leg workout, man up, mass made simple, mental toughness, old school muscle building, underground strength gym

Bodybuilding with Sandbags

by Zach Even - Esh 5 Comments

I love training with Sandbags. They are simple and brutal. Overall, they are an all in one gym and you can mimic a lot of barbell lifts with the sandbag along with old fashioned farm boy work; carry, throw, loading on platforms, etc. Of course, thanks to the sensitivity of the internet,  there are coaches who are crying over who started to train with sandbags first. Or, they think they invented this or that exercise. They can finally SHUT UP, that would be great. Before any of us were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: bodybuilding, dr ken, mental toughness, no rules workout, sandbag course, sandbags, strength training, strongman training, tire flip, underground strength coach, underground strength gym

REAL World Strength vs Pretty Boy Bodybuilding

by Zach Even - Esh 54 Comments

It was the Fall of 2007...... Interesting story from today while training a crew of wrestlers and football players.... Two high school kids stopped by the gym while we were outside flipping tires, pulling and pushing sleds, carrying kegs, sandbags and Kettlebells. One of them looked to be 220 lbs of drugged up muscle. How do I know? Because this same kid attended a speed & strength camp that I ran 3 years prior when he was a freshman weighing 130 lbs. Three Years later, he's 220 and … [Read more...]

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