It was 1990, The Summer after freshman year and I was finishing up my days traveling to the Metuchen YMCA. At the time, the weight room was down stairs, a small dungeon filled with York Barbell Weights, a York Isometric rack and a small radio where the big guys allowed me to bring in my cassette tape to play hard rock music. I knew these were my last days at The Y as construction was in full swing and a new weight room was coming. The few who trained at The Y were big guys. It was a small … [Read more...]
STOP Looking For A Substitute
This blog post will make me sound like a cranky old guy talking about "back in the day" but the truth is, even though I am 40 now, I remember feeling this way when I was 30. The photo above is from our forum for Garage Gym Gladiators. Matthew got me fired up because he did what I want everyone to do: FIND A WAY. You can find a way or you can find an excuse. You can have excuses or you can have results but you can not have both. When you see a training program that requires sleds, you don't … [Read more...]
Garage Gym Gladiators QnA: Hustle Muscle + Business BOSS Strength Coach
Episode 94 of The STRONG Life Podcast is a QnA pulled from STRONG Life Online Training Team: Garage Gym Gladiators. In this episode we have some powerful training questions that bring to mind some CRAZY memories I have of training, life and business. Prepare to get fired UP from these lessons and stories. Here are the Questions / Topics Covered In This Episode: … [Read more...]
STRONG Life 92: ALL About Getting STRONG, Building Muscle & Getting RESULTS!
In STRONG Life Ep 92, I answer your questions from Instagram. This episode is ALL about Training, ALL About Getting STRONG, Building Muscle & Getting Results. QnA style and being in a fired up mood, I deliver hard hitting throat punches with the TRUTH on Training. Here are the Questions / Topics answered in this STRONG Life Podcast: … [Read more...]
Underground Strength QnA: Tire Flips & Training With Injuries
Got some cool questions that I wanna crank out via the Blog. Check em' below as these questions come in often. Enjoy! Q: Hi Zach! My Name is Mark and I live on Cape Cod. If you have a minute I wanted to ask you about tire flipping. 4 of us from my affiliate competed in a Crossfit Competition today and there was a 1000 pound tire-at least that's what they told us it weighed. Any way no one from my team has flipped the tire before and we couldn't even get the thing off the ground. … [Read more...]
The Combat Conditioning Playground Workout, AKA, Damage Inc
Try this workout below, in the video. It's an oldie but a goody, a blast from the past dating back to the original days of The Underground where most of my workouts were outdoors mixing Bodyweight, Kettlebells, Sleds, Playground training, etc. Get as many rounds as possible in 30 minutes. You get 1 point for each round completed, NO half points :) The name of the workout? Damage Inc. See the Video below for details! … [Read more...]
Episode # 138: Underground Muscle Building with Tire Flipping, Bodyweight Training & Sleds
"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together." - E. Nightingale - Above, The Gnarly Back of A. DuPoux, Underground Trained Since His Senior Year In College On The Gridiron I had to share this after we tore up The Underground Strength Gym the day before Joe DeFranco and I rocked a seminar together. This is Just a lil' highlight of the BEASTS who stopped by the day before our Lost Secrets … [Read more...]
Share Your Favorite Power-Building Workout
So, the last video really had your emotions stirred up. Some were pissed off that I was pissed at a kid who was once natural went the drug route and talked a BIG game with nothing to back it up. When I'm asked to describe my own workouts, they tend to be coined as something called Power-Bodybuilding. We are ALL "bodybuilders" - we build our body, period. Here is a recent workout of my very own, check it out: 1) Zercher Squat 5 x 1 - 5 reps 2A) Double Kettlebell Clean & Press 4 x 5 2B) … [Read more...]
Strongman Training for Freak Strength and Muscle Gains
Oh man, now this was a flash back into time. I found this video below on my You Tube Page (you can subscribe by clicking HERE & then clicking the "subscribe" button) This video was filmed in my backyard, the local playground and the tire yard I used to trian at! I would train there myself, as well as take my athletes to all these locations. The workouts were sick, using all these odd objects, all because I didn't have money. To me, this was not some FAD, I was flat broke, I couldn't afford a … [Read more...]
Why I HAD to get an Anvil!
I saw a ton of posts at Dave Draper's awesome site dedicated to Dr.Ken and many spoke about his son, Kevin. They posted this pic and it motivated the heck out of me to get me an anvil. I am loving the anvil, I'll be posting pics, articles and videos of anvil training at http://UndergroundStrengthCoach.com You tell me, does Kevin look like a BEAST or what?!?! If the pic above doesn't motivate you, check your pulse. In Strength, Zach Even - Esh P.S. - The snow is coming down HARD … [Read more...]