STRONG Life Podcast ep. 170 with Luke and Tex from Power Athlete HQ as we tackle, in depth, the topic of "brace your core". It's time to Get your learn on! I have always said, the art of coaching has MANY subtleties that are difficult to teach. It's so simple it's complicated. I began coaching others, we can say, as early as high school. When I had training partners, they all let me guide the training. I coached them up on technique, motivation, weight selection, changes on the fly … [Read more...]
STRONG Life 106: Being STRONG & Successful Through Simplicity | Matt Reynolds
STRONG Life Episode 106 is Round 2 with my friend and Coach, Matt Reynold of Reynolds STRONG & The Barbell Logic Online Coaching Community. Matt is not only a good friend but also a mentor to me. He guides me in business and we regularly chat on Life, Lifting and Success. The theme we always come back to is: Keep it Simple, Trust Your Gut Instincts, Be STRONG & Train for Life. Simple, NOT Easy. Nothing worth having ever is "easy". In this episode of The STRONG Life … [Read more...]
Don’t Play The Age Card & My 40th Birthday Workout
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...]
Youth Football Training Do’s & Don’ts
Underground Strength Interview w/ Coach Burgess, co-author of Pigskin Prep Age Appropriate Performance Training for Youth Football First things first: who are you and what do you do? Ha, thanks Zach. My name is Ryan Burgess; I’m a physical preparation coach at Fitness Quest 10 out in San Diego, CA, where I also direct all of our football programs. I’ve coached and trained athletes and general fitness clients from almost every … [Read more...]
333 | Interview With Louie Simmons of Westside Barbell Club: Lessons from The Westside Barbell Book of Methods
STRONG Life Podcast ep 333 This is a throwback interview I did with Louie Simmons, back in 2008. Back then, there were NO podcasts. I was using a landline to record these audio interviews for https://UndergroundStrengthCoach.com This was done after Louie released his book, The Westside Barbell Book of Methods. I devoured that book in NO time and could NOT put it down. … [Read more...]