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Zach Even-Esh

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Building Stronger, Tougher & Faster Athletes: Eventually, Athletes Need a Heavy Bar on their Back

by Zach Even - Esh 2 Comments

Times have been changing for quite some time..... Strength training with the basics is just not "cool" anymore. "Experts" hate on squats and now we have high school kids who can barely squat bodyweight. And this COVID shutdown of gyms didn't help. When gyms were open, at least the kids were in there training. Now, parents are afraid to send kids to a gym and we have everyone locked down in a "safety bubble" You see, many athletes took it upon themselves to do NOTHING during the COVID … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Bodyweight Bodybuilding, Kettlebells, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Nutrition, Old School Strength, Olympic Lifting, Powerlifting, Strength Building, Underground Strength Challenge, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: athlete workouts, athletic warm up, athleticism, football workouts, high school workouts, john mccallum, keys to progress, lehigh wrestling, mike webster, nutrition, old school strength, plyometrics, speed and agility, speed training, Squats, stronger athletes, trap bar deadlift, underground strength academy, underground strength gym, weight gain shake, wrestling workouts

How to Build BEAST Athletes Who Dominate, From Youth to D1 to Olympians

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When the beginning of COVID locked us all down, I was helping friends near and far with interviews, workouts and support for their gyms. My buddy Jim Kelly reached out to me. Jim is in Iowa operating Citadel BJJ and Eastern Iowa Wrestling Club but we've known one another since the early 2000s when I was starting to put out content and Jim was competing heavily in BJJ / Grappling. This Video was an Awesome QnA loaded with training questions and mindset to help Jim's students. It's great for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Business, AWESOME Life, Bodyweight Bodybuilding, Kettlebells, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Olympic Lifting, Powerlifting, Q & A, Strength Building, Strength Coach Business, STRONG Life Podcast, Success, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: bjj workouts, bonus, citadel bjj, fitness business, GPP training, grappling, gym business, jim kelly, program design, qna, sports specific training, strong life podcast, underground strength gym, warehouse gym, Wrestling, wrestling workouts

225 | Donny Pritzlaff, 1 of the BEST Coaches & Humans I Know

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Here we go, STRONG Life Podcast ep. 225 with 1 of my favorite people on the planet, Donny Pritzlaff. The best way I can prepare you for this episode is that I've got vert few people who I can merely mention their name or just think about them, and it makes me work harder & work to become better at LIFE. 1 of those rare few is Donny Pritzlaff. I worked with Donny while at Rutgers and out of all the Coaches I have worked with through the decades, I connected with Donny the most. We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Life, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Old School Strength, Q & A, Strength Building, STRONG Life Insider, STRONG Life Podcast, Success, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: discipline, donny pritzlaff, edge wrestling club, ernie monaco, mental toughness, transfer of training, Wrestling, wrestling workouts

STRONG Life Ep. 211 | The Ultimate QnA on Training & Life

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Here we GO! STRONG Life Podcast ep. 211, QnA style on ALL things training and life! The questions are big time varied in this episode which I LOVE. To only talk about training gets old. Living The STRONG Life is all about taking your Strength BEYOND the gym, BEYOND the weight room. The questions were pulled from this Instagram Post:   View this post on Instagram   #STRONGLife #Podcast QnA - I’ll be recording a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Announcements, AWESOME Business, AWESOME Life, Kettlebells, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Powerlifting, Q & A, Strength Building, STRONG Life Podcast, Success, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: basement gym, books, favorite books, garage gym, home gym, joshua medcalf, kettlebell training, kettlebells, morning routine, strength and conditioning, strong life podcast, Success, underground strength academy, underground strength coach, wrestling strength, wrestling workouts

RAW with Marty Gallagher: Strength Endurance, Minimalist Training & Fighting the Fads & Gimmicks of Strength & Conditioning

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In this BONUS episode of The STRONG Life Podcast I join my friends of Iron Company on their podcast. We've got JP Brice, Marty Gallagher and Jim Steel. Marty's podcast is called RAW, and once you hear his unfiltered ways of conversing with me you'll understand exactly why! We discuss the following topics: - How my background in training began, from hardcore gyms to current days of The Underground Strength Gym - How some of the Powerlifters of the 60s, 70s and 80s trained for world … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Announcements, Articles, Kettlebells, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Powerlifting, Q & A, Strength Building, STRONG Life Podcast, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: barbell basics, conjugate method, diamond gym, iron company, jim steel, jp brice, kenny fantano powerlifter, marty gallagher, minimalist strength, muscle factory gym, old school strength, physical education, powerlifting, purposeful primitive, raw podcast, raw powerlifting, spec ops military, sprints, supersets, warehouse gym, wrestling strength, wrestling workouts

Iron Roots Ep. 10 – Wrestling Physical Conditioning Encyclopedia by John Jesse

by Zach Even - Esh 1 Comment

This book was gifted to me in the early 2000s by Josh Henkin, creator of The Ultimate Sandbag. I will never forget how grateful I was and still am that Josh shared this book with me! This book was written in 1974, before I was even born! Coach John Jesse was WELL ahead of his time, in fact, this was a time period in athletics where many Coaches were warning against weightlifting because You'll become muscle bound or Your muscles will turn to fat if you stop training. If you're ready to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Iron Roots, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Strength Building, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: iron roots podcast, john jesse, old school strength, Wrestling Physical Conditioning Encyclopedia by John Jesse, wrestling strength, wrestling workouts

192 | Destroy Your Excuses, Advance & Conquer

by Zach Even - Esh 2 Comments

Well I'll be damned, I am hearing more excuses from people of ALL ages who must be infected with some sort of an excuse virus. From teenagers to parents of athletes. From adults in their 20s all the way into their 60s. You either want it or you don't. I can sense it from a mile away, your actions tell me everything about how badly you really want something. I've heard these weak excuses, way too often..... It's too expensive I'm too busy It's too far away I'm waiting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Announcements, AWESOME Business, AWESOME Life, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Powerlifting, Q & A, Strength Building, STRONG Life Podcast, Success, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: 1 on 1 coaching, 192, joe cunha, leaf from the front, no excuses, powerlifting, strong life podcast, super total training, vip coaching, wrestling strength, wrestling workouts

STRONG Life Ep 128 | QnA: Training Methods for Different Athletes, GREAT Books & Being Owned By No Man!

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In STRONG Life Podcast ep. 128, I have an awesome time answering your questions and as always, my answers expand into multiple topics and conversations. Training questions end up becoming answers about life, business questions become answers about training..... Here's some of the topics / questions discussed: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AWESOME Business, 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, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: 128, an iron will, athlete strength training, great books, gym marketing, nutrition for athletes, strength coach athlete buy in, strong life podcast, the 50th law, trap bar, underground strength coach, underground strength gym, wrestling workouts

STRONG Life Ep. 126: Strength Training & Life Lessons From the 70s, 80s & 90s

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STRONG Life Episode 126 with Jim Steel. In this episode, we kick things off with some throwback stories from the 70s, 80s and 90s and then dig into our current day training methods. Jim and I (as always) discuss all kinds of topics strength related, in no particular order, the following topics: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Life, Bodyweight Bodybuilding, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Nutrition, Old School Strength, Olympic Lifting, Powerlifting, Q & A, Strength Building, STRONG Life Podcast, Success, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: bas barbell, brad gillingham, evel knievel, jfk fitness challenge, jim steel, mental toughness, military workouts, old school bodybuilding, randy white football workouts, special forces workouts, strong life podcast 126, strongman workout, training around injuries, wrestling workouts

Getting Stronger: Why The Power Lies In The Imperfections

by Zach Even - Esh 3 Comments

Every morning I am up and at em' in a similar fashion. Nothing complicated. Nothing fancy. I understand this isn't what "sells" but oh well...... I am always ready to lose the popularity contest so I can stay true to me. I don't want to inspire you to do any fake BS. Get up early while the house is quiet...... Get the dogs outside. Get the coffee going. Play some Zac Brown Band. Get to Writing. Get the breakfast done for the kids. No need to complicate life or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, AWESOME Life, Bodyweight Bodybuilding, Live The Code, Mental Toughness, Motivation, Muscle Building, Old School Strength, Powerlifting, Strength Building, Success, Underground Strength Show, Videos, Wrestling Training, Zach's Workouts Tagged With: basic strength training, calisthenics, deadlift, how to get stronger, mental toughness, old school strength, rutgers wrestling, strength and health magazine, wrestling workouts

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