In this BONUS episode of The STRONG Life Podcast, I am interviewed by Craig Ballantyne for his podcast, Early to Rise. We discuss the pivotal people who influenced my business and life since day 1. And, how these lessons can change your life as well. So how does a guy who started his gym from his parents garage and backyard build a business that impacts people worldwide? How does the Coach that everyone laughed at 20 years ago continue to grow his business and evolve to create more … [Read more...]
167 | Josh Bryant on Success Mindset, Strength Coach Business & Training As You Get Older
STRONG Life Ep 167 with Josh Bryant on Success Mindset, Strength Coach Business & Training As You Get Older. To support this show take advantage of the BIG 30 Year Anniversary Sale I am holding HERE. https://zacheven-esh.com/30-year-sale/ Here's some of the topics we get into: … [Read more...]
164 | How to Harness The Power of Your Mind to Achieve More Success
I'm returning home from an amazing trip to Vermont to help with our annual Spartan Wrestling Camp but this was also the FIRST time I took my son with me to Vermont. Simply going to Vermont to meet and work with Joe DeSena sends me into a mode of stepping up ALL my training, nutrition and lifestyle. I know that Joe will always throw a monkey wrench into what we're doing. For my son, I wanted him to experience the outdoors, the beauty and power of hiking the mountain and to escape from … [Read more...]
5 Simple Steps For A Stronger Life
To live is to learn. To learn is to evolve. If you remain stagnant you are not truly living, you are merely existing. Here are 5 simple steps I've begun implementing more aggressively to live a Stronger Life. Follow these 5 steps yourself and you'll become stronger in mind, body and spirit. The ultimate way to feel stressed out is to remain stagnant. Here we go. Onward and Upward. … [Read more...]
Underground Strength Coach Success Stories
A few years ago, Jeremy Thiel rounded up his most motivated Strength Coaches and we held a private Underground Strength Coach Certification. In these 2 days we covered training, business, marketing, lifestyle, ALL the while in the trenches, training with our athletes, training our athletes, going through workouts themselves.... This team returned to Austin, TX and built a gym modeled after The Underground Strength Gym, called Red Black Gym - it's an amazing gym, with amazing Coaches, kinda … [Read more...]
Climbing Your Personal Mt Everest
Undergrounders - Quick Heads Up on some New Stuff but please make sure you read this ENTIRE Blog Post. Some Very powerful info to share with you: I've got a new "camp", so for those who keep asking when the next USC Cert is going down, we have a few 1 day camps where you can become a Level 1 OR Level 2 Underground Strength Coach. Everything is explained HERE Once the fall starts up again, I will get back to cranking 2 day camps / certs. Summer time always proves craziness … [Read more...]
Coach John Wooden & Tony Robbins: Immortal Advice
If you've been following me for some time, perhaps you've heard of my troubled past, my struggles in life. Most wouldn't guess or perhaps would think I'm lying, when I speak of my struggles through depression while in high school and my freshman year in college. There were days when I wasn't sure if I would make it..... make it out of bed..... make it through the day. I pulled through, I became stronger and took charge. I still remember the morning I woke up and felt empowered, I remember as … [Read more...]
Underground Strength Inspiration Contest
Approximately 4 & 1/2 years ago I started Underground Strength Coach. It was a small collection of articles and videos that all began by filming the workouts I did in garages, back yards and playgrounds with my athletes. Today, we have thousands of articles and several hundred videos on file, a forum that houses thousands and thousands of workouts ranging from my personal workouts, my athletes workouts, workouts of other coaches and their athletes spanning the entire globe. I always found … [Read more...]
The Art of Living
I receive countless e mails asking me how I get so much done without fail. How I balance my business with family life, lifting, answering e mails, vacations, and more? I'm also starting a NEW business (On the DL for now) and just bought a new house. I do my best to answer in the video below. If you have good stuff to add about YOUR 'Art of Living', feel free to drop a line! Peace --Z-- PS: This is perhaps the BIGGEST success that comes from attending The Underground Strength Coach … [Read more...]
How to Achieve Greatness and Become Fearless
Many, Many, MANY years ago, as a young teen, reading Arnold's book, 'Education of a Bodybuilder' I remember Arnold speaking about being Fearless. I would keep taking the book out from the school library, renewing it every 2 weeks so noone else could read about Arnie and learn his secrets. Just me, it was all mine! I remember laughing to myself as my name was the only name to fill up both front and back of all the sign out cards for this awesome book. Arnold was Fearless to go heavier and move … [Read more...]