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Zach Even-Esh

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Bill Seno Tips on Strength & Building Muscle

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Bill Seno was a champion powerlifter, bodybuilder & weightlifter. A rare blend of ALL 3 styles of lifting / strength. Louie Simmons often shares the advice of Bill Seno who told Louie, "Do 6 x 6 with an illegally wide grip on the bench press, then sets of 8, then 10s. When you can do 10 reps, go heavier and drop down to 6s again." Bill wrote a book called 'Pushing for Power'. It's awesome and filled with BASIC STRENGTH tips. Basic strength training is a lost art form today thanks to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Powerlifting, Strength Building, STRONG Over 40, Underground Strength Challenge, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: 70s big, basic strength training, bench press, bill seno, bill seno book, golden era bodybuilding, old school strength, powerlifting, program design, pushing for power

337 | QnA: Muscle Building Techniques (Old & New), Spec Ops Preparation, Calisthenics Tips & More

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STRONG Life Podcast ep 337 Brought to you by https://ZachStrength.com  In this QnA I cover the following topics: - What are hypertrophy clusters and how are the variations different from the 70s leading up to today? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Q & A, Sports Performance, Strength Building, STRONG Life Podcast, Success, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: bill seno, blood and guts, body tempering, dorian yates, gladiator project, golden era bodybuilding, HIT training, jan dllinger, john grimek, marathon training, silver era bodybuilding, spec ops training

Phil Grippaldi’s 4 Days a Week Arm Routine: 20 Inch Arms at Age 16!

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How did Phil Grippaldi develop 20" arms by the age of 16?!?! You're about to find out as I outline his arm routine that he followed under the tutelage of Mike Guibilo, who went on to become a bodyguard for models and a "strong arm" for the mob.   Here we go, enjoy the ride and prepare to be inspired to put in some serious WORK. … [Read more...]

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Mid Summer Sale

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I hope your training is kicking ass!  I gotta tell you, my training is going great. The knee is feeling better and my energy is sky high. Even when The Underground Strength Gym has temps of 90 or 94 degrees, I am energized when I train. I am confused how the kids of today are so tired after training or doing little things like mowing the lawn. Strength is invigorating! Now that August is upon us, it reminds me how the Summer was always a GREAT time to train. I would ride my … [Read more...]

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Inside Mike Mentzer’s Heavy Duty Book & Training Methods

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I came across Mike Mentzer's training methods as a kid. In fact, if memory serves me properly, I began reading about Mike Mentzer around age 11. You see, I would read my older brother's bodybuilding books and magazines for 2 years before I actually began training. I began training in June of 1989 but leading up to that point, I would dabble in lifting the weights my brother had in his room. It was strange to me that I would lift weights for 2 or 3 weeks and then quit. I thought something was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Iron Roots, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: arnold, casey viator, gladiator project, golden era bodybuilding, heavy duty book review, high intesity training, iron roots, marty gallagher, mike mentzer heavy duty book, minimalist workout, old school muscle, old school strength

Old School Bodybuilding Book: Super High Intensity Bodybuilding, Ultimate Warrior & Old School Strength

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It was the Winter of 1989....... I had asked my parents for a bunch of bodybuilding books that I had read multiple times already. How? I would sit on the floor at the B Dalton book store inside menlo park mall and read ALL of the books. But still, I was obsessed and had to have them all. Reading them a few times wasn't enough for me. The photos inside these books inspired me to train harder and get bigger. Little did I know or could I ever imagine that decades later, I would become … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Life, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Powerlifting, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: barbarian brothers, casey viator, elleington darden, golden era bodybuilding, jim hellwig, old school bodybuilding, old school strength, super high intensity bodybuilding, ultimate warrior, vic richards

Building Muscle is NOT As Complicated as the “Gurus” Say

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I am fired up as I write this. After 3 weeks on crutches, I finally was able to return to my high school to coach the athletes. I am also back at The Underground Strength Gym coaching. After training the Football team, I spoke to the guys about how I was proud of their efforts. We crushed a training session and then I left it on them to hit hill sprints. "Train as hard as you want to Win" is a phrase I often use. It puts the responsibility on them to do the work. Being a bit limited with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Strength Building, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: 531, building muscle, football workouts, freddy ortiz, gaining size, gaining strength, gladiator strong, golden era bodybuilding, jim wendler, robby robinson, underground strength gym

Chuck Sipes Inspired Workout: The 1-10-1 Method

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It was a Friday and I was feeling inspired to go through a tough training session with an old school feel to it. I dug up some old muscle mags with Chuck Sipes, one of the strongest bodybuilders ever from the 60s. He favored heavy lifting and I have written several articles on Chuck Sipes (Find them HERE). Chuck's home gym is where he trained most of the time. The other times he trained was at his work when he was a Youth Officer for The CYA / California Youth Authority. Chuck had a … [Read more...]

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252: Jim “Bandbell” Seitzer, Early Days Westside Barbell & Old School Bodybuilding

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STRONG Life Podcast 252 is BEAST! Jim Seitzer started lifting weights in the mid 70s with none other than Louie Simmons. That's right, imagine graduating college and training to be a bodybuilder and on day 1, you see Louie benching 365 at the Ohio State University weight room and when you ask Louie, the strongest guy in the gym for help he says, "Just show up at my house tomorrow!" Jim began training for bodybuilding as a "Power Bodybuilder" in 1976 and went on to become a high level … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Life, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Nutrition, Old School Strength, Powerlifting, Q & A, Strength Building, STRONG Life Podcast, Success, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: bamboo bar, bandbell, bodybuilding, box squat, deadlift, garage gym, golden era bodybuilding, jim seitzer, louie simmons, mike francois, old school bodybuilding, rack pull, ron teufel, shoulder health, warehouse gym, westside barbell

245 | Josh Rondeau on Old School Strength & Lifters of the Golden Era

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Photo Cred: StartingStrength.com STRONG Life Podcast ep. 245 with Josh Rondeau. What a GREAT time this was hamming it up talking about old school strength with Josh. We bounce around a bit, of course, but you'll be inspired and educated to get after it, as always! In the video of this episode, you will see a tour of Josh's Garage Gym so make sure you check that out, especially if you're considering training people from your garage. Here's just SOME of the topics we discussed: … [Read more...]

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