3 days a week I work with the college wrestlers and man, we thrash that weight room! The energy is through the roof and that is an understatement. The culture of what happens with your team is a HUGE key to their success. A dialed in, consistent off season training program is a make or break factor for a wrestling team's success. Unfortunately, most teams don't have Coaches who organize a team plan be it in wrestling or strength & conditioning. The Coach who organizes this aspect of … [Read more...]
A Letter to My YOUNG (Athlete) Self With 17 Training & Life Tips
This letter isn't about holding on to the past or living in the past. Knowing and learning from mistakes is crucial. The opportunity to share with others to help them achieve more Success, to avoid my mistakes & to be inspired to improve themselves is the goal. It's a simple hope that a middle or high school athletes comes across this post, sees my mistakes, my tips on life and lifting and ultimately, puts these tips to use. Heck, I hope a college athlete sees this. Maybe a college … [Read more...]
STRONG Life 95: Muscle Building VS Fat Loss, Fatherhood & Strength Coach Advices
STRONG Life Episode 95 is jam packed with Awesome information thanks to your Awesome Questions. I pulled your questions from This Instagram Post. #STRONGLife #Podcast questions can be posted below, tomorrow morning I will record and post on iTunes. / #UndergroundStrengthCoach #UndergroundStrengthGym #Muscle #Hustle #Entrepreneur #Relentless A video posted by Zach Even - Esh (@zevenesh) on Sep 19, 2016 at 10:58am PDT Here are the Questions / Topics I covered: … [Read more...]
STRONG Life Ep. 87: How I Organize The Business & Training Operations at The Underground Strength Gym
Episode 87 of The STRONG Life Podcast was a loaded QnA covering the many facets of how I started, grew and currently run The Underground Strength Gym. As of now, I have 2 locations in NJ and a 3rd location in the works. It's NOT easy but nothing in life truly worth having is easy! Some of the topics / questions I answer In STRONG Life 87 include: … [Read more...]
Training Large Groups of Athletes, Squat Every Day, Motivation to Lift Heavier & Football Workouts
STRONG Life Podcast Episode 72 is a QnA session pulled from the private forum of Certified Underground Strength Coaches. This will be a 2 or 3 part series and the focus is mostly training questions, although some business and lifestyle questions are snuck in. In this episode, I answer the following questions: … [Read more...]
3 Reasons You Must Attack Deadlifts & Calisthenics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_aSMy9RQyk Give me nothing but a Barbell and I will Build a BadAss. Do you have the discipline, drive and dedication to train with nothing but a barbell? If you do, then we can make it happen. But the truth is that MOST don't desire the simplicity. They crave the fancy. They crave the fads. If my business could be run like a simple training hall we can certainly weed out the not so serious. Add some bodyweight bodybuilding aka calisthenics and now we have a … [Read more...]
How to Build Strong, Powerful, Jacked Athletes – Pt 1
I'm doing something different this month where I normally add our Underground Strength Workout of the Month as a private video or a PDF training course to The Underground Inner Circle. This month, I am sharing with you the inside look with full blown access to our November WOM (Workout of the Month). I break down the following in this powerful video: - how we train our athletes to develop the total package: strength, size, athleticism, power. - why we train them with a blend of … [Read more...]
STRONGCast 20: Matt Wichlinski, Wrestling Workouts, Art of Coaching, Success & Bodybuilding
In this episode of The STRONG Life podcast I interview Matt Wichlinski, the director of performance at The WWE Developmental training center in Florida. +++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ Matt attended one of the earliest Underground Strength Coach Certifications and has always been on the cutting edge of training. He understands training unlike any other coach I've met. Of course, being super humble, he will never brag, so I'll do the bragging for him. This episode will give you insight … [Read more...]
Does The Bench Press REALLY Matter?
I train a high school Football Player / Wrestler who broke his hand / wrist in 8th grade. Now, he's a sophomore and strong as hell (naturally :). After his hand and wrist were fixed via surgery, it wasn't quite fixed. Ironic, right? Benching and holding horizontal weights in the hands is tough, the wrist deviates big time & causes pain no matter how strong we work the hands, wrist, grip, etc. Neutral grip barbells and dumbbells feel somewhat better and stronger. But, when it comes … [Read more...]
How to Develop Explosive Power
Undergrounders!! Wus the haps??!! I've got some QnA from the e mail side of things. I LOVE doing these QnA Vids and it's tough to keep up with them, but this was a GREAT one, check it out, all about being Explosive! I believe that strength AND power must be blended together, I explain in detail below... These videos are my most influential people / methods when it comes to training for explosive power as well as some footage of our athletes in action. Check it out, enjoy it and please … [Read more...]