#167 Zach Even-Esh | UNDERGROUND STRENGTH, 90'S BODYBUILDING
Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate
5.0 • 49 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 227 minutes
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In this 167th Table Talk Podcast episode, Dave Tate is joined by Zach Even-Esh.
Zach Even-Esh is a Strength & Sports Performance Coach located in NJ. Zach is the founder of The Underground Strength Gym, author of The Encyclopedia of Underground Strength, and creator of two certifications; The SSPC Cert (Strength & Sports Performance Coach) and The Underground Strength Coach Cert.
Zach began coaching full-time in 2002 and has been in the private sector for 20 years while also coaching at The D1 level (Lehigh and Rutgers). Zach has consulted with college programs, the FBI, Naval Special Warfare, and coaches worldwide. Zach has been a full-time high school strength and conditioning coach since 2019 and is The NJ State Director for The NHSSCA (National High School Strength Coach Association).
Zach's IG: https://www.instagram.com/zevenesh/
Zach Even-Esh Website: https://zacheven-esh.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Dave Tate is the founder and co-owner of elitefts.com. He is the author of twenty books and has logged more than 40,000 hours of training and consulting. Dave is married to elitefts co-owner Traci Arnold-Tate, and they reside in London, Ohio, with their two sons. Personal Credo: Live, Learn, Pass on™.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought you by EliteFTS.com, founded in 1998 with the primary aim to live, learn, and pass on. |
| 0:08.7 | Please help EliteFTS support this mission by smashing the like button, leaving a comment, sharing with a friend, and thinking of us for your training needs. |
| 0:16.4 | If you can put it in a gym bag or load weights on it, Elite FTS has it. |
| 0:20.7 | What's going on?'m dave tate |
| 0:22.2 | we are broadcasting from the middle of the elite ftsd weight room where the underground still |
| 0:26.1 | thrives and you're part of the crew it's time to sit down keep it real and cut the bullshit welcome |
| 0:31.9 | to table talk what's up guys We are back with another episode of Table Talk. Today, my guest is |
| 0:44.5 | Zach Evanish. We're going to have a lot to discuss, but first, I want to take a moment to thank |
| 0:50.1 | one of our new sponsors, which is first detachment, nutrition and supplement line. This line |
| 0:56.8 | is founded by Justin Harris and his partner, which is in the description. I don't have the script |
| 1:05.7 | ready. You know, that's going to launch next week when Justin comes on the show. But what I wanted to do was |
| 1:11.6 | just to thank them for their sponsorship first. And second, come out and say that I've known Justin |
| 1:17.3 | for a very long time, well over a decade. And when it comes to supplementation and nutritional |
| 1:23.9 | support, he is one of the very few people that I would trust in an industry that |
| 1:30.1 | makes me want to vomit most of the time. If you guys have listened to the podcast and followed me |
| 1:34.5 | at all over the past 25 years I've been online, you know exactly how I feel about that industry. |
| 1:41.0 | There's very, very few people that I would trust in Justin is one. So I want to actually |
| 1:47.5 | congratulate him on, you know, founding the company. Thank him for supporting the podcast. We'll |
| 1:53.7 | have him next week. We'll talk about some of the formulations he has. In the meantime, |
| 1:57.8 | if you go to the link in the description, click on First Detachment, go to their website, anything that you pick up. |
| 2:05.0 | They have intra-workout, they have pre-workout, immunity formula, and I'm losing my mind on some of the other ones. |
| 2:14.2 | And what was that? |
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