Here we GO! STRONG Life Podcast ep. 226 with my buddy, Josh Bryant. With COVID-19 locking down the entire world, and gym goers struggling along with the zoom workout bunnies, guys like myself and Josh Bryant are TRAINING. This style of training is another day at the office for us. Bodyweight Bodybuilding was created in 2010, maybe 2009 and it's been 1 of the most effective & popular courses I've released. This style of training, whether it was all bodyweight training or building my … [Read more...]
Training Tips for When You’re Short on Time but NOT Short on Excuses
If you would have told me 20 years ago that in my 40s I'd be busier than ever, I'd say NO WAY! The fact of the matter is, I AM busier than ever and if you're an adult with a family, then you likely are in the same shoes. I run 2 gyms, train 100-200 athletes every day and most importantly, have 2 kids. I find a way to get my training in so it does not interfere with family time. I train early in the morning or right after taking kids to school. Sometimes, I have 20 minutes. It reminds me … [Read more...]
How to Use Barbell Basics Strength Training For The WIN
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...]