501 🎙️ Shane Sweatt: Gym Business, Honoring Louie Simmons, Building ELITE Athletes & REFUSING MEDIOCRITY
The STRONG Life Podcast with Zach Even - Esh
Zach Even - Esh
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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STRONG Life Podcast ep 501 🎙️
Shane Sweatt: Gym Business, Honoring Louie Simmons, Building ELITE Athletes & REFUSING MEDIOCRITY
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, friends. This is the Strong Life podcast. This is your host, Zach Evanish. This is episode 501. This is a follow-up or a part two to my episode with Shane Sweat. |
| 0:12.3 | Tried crushing this on Instagram, but some technical difficulties messed that up. So we said, hey, let's hop on Zoom and let's crush this. So we went a little bit |
| 0:21.4 | over an hour and the topics were great. And I'd say a little bit more intense and deep-rooted |
| 0:27.9 | and more deep-hearted. So number one, started getting into some of the business evolution |
| 0:33.8 | that Shane has gone through with his gym originally starting as a powerlifting |
| 0:38.8 | gym and a CrossFit gym and he wanted to honor Louis Simmons after Louis passing. |
| 0:45.6 | I believe it was two years ago that Louis passed away about a day or two ago. |
| 0:51.9 | And so Louis had a dream and a vision of taking conjugate training and getting it to the |
| 0:57.7 | masses and really showing that it could be successfully implemented in the athlete sector, not just |
| 1:03.8 | powerlifting. And I love the honor that Shane has in trying to pass that on to me that's very special i mean even |
| 1:13.1 | to the point of you know i've been coaching athletes for so long that some of these athletes have |
| 1:19.0 | gone on and opened up gyms and it's always interesting if i ever hear them getting an interview |
| 1:25.4 | it's like they will barely ever say, hey, I grew up |
| 1:29.7 | in the underground strength gym, or I learned strongman training and odd object training and kettlebells |
| 1:35.1 | at the underground strength gym, or, hey, I've got these three certifications, but they never |
| 1:41.1 | mentioned going to the underground strength coach certification. |
| 1:45.2 | And I got to tell you, it fucks with my head a little bit because you start to wonder, |
| 1:49.0 | like, why do people not simply want to say this is who they learned from? |
| 1:55.1 | This is who mentored me. |
| 1:57.3 | And sometimes I look into that. |
| 2:00.1 | And so it was really, to me, special to hear Shane saying, |
| 2:04.7 | I wanted to honor Louis. |
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