509 🎙️ Lessons from 2025 as Strength Coaches | Success, Culture, Caring & WINNING Teams
The STRONG Life Podcast with Zach Even - Esh
Zach Even - Esh
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
STRONG Life Podcast 509 🎙️ Lessons from 2025 as Strength Coaches | Success, Culture, Caring & WINNING Teams with Paul Kolody and Zach Even - Esh
TOPICS:
✔️ Common Themes among the most successful athletes
✔️ Expectations & Standards & Why these 2 Things are CRUCIAL for TEAM Success
✔️ Strength is NOT a bad thing / Why so Many Injuries in athletes?
✔️ The problem with "Hope"
✔️ Coaches & "GSF Factor"
✔️ Always Learning for Coaches and Athletes and WHY this is so Important
✔️ Advice to ALL Coaches, especially Young Strength Coaches
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Life Podcast, where we talk about dominating in strength, health, business, and life. |
| 0:11.8 | And by the way, if you're a parent out there and you've got a teenager, get over there and see Zach. |
| 0:16.5 | Talk about being jacked up. |
| 0:17.9 | This place is jacked up and ready to go. |
| 0:20.0 | There's no better program than here. |
| 0:21.6 | I push myself beyond the levels that I can go in here. |
| 0:24.6 | Gotta be at the underground. |
| 0:25.6 | Have you ever seen Zach Evan Esch? |
| 0:28.6 | Oh, what's that? |
| 0:29.6 | Oh, he's a trainer out of New Jersey. |
| 0:31.6 | First of all, let me just congratulate him on my, his badass name. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, that's a great name. |
| 0:36.6 | What's his name again Zach Avenesh Evan Esh Evan that's a pretty dope man |
| 0:40.4 | Esh All right, guys, welcome back to the Strong Life podcast. |
| 1:01.3 | This is episode 509. |
| 1:03.0 | Had a great conversation with my buddy, Paul Collodi, fellow strength coach at Hunter |
| 1:07.5 | and Central Regional High School in New Jersey. |
| 1:10.3 | Paul and I run the NHSCA. That's the |
| 1:12.6 | National High School Strength and Conditioning Association. We run the New Jersey State. And Paul's |
| 1:22.5 | actually national coach of the year. There is no higher honor than that in the NHSCA. Pretty amazing. And a little |
| 1:29.6 | humble brag. I am the regional coach of the year, tri-state region. So amazing people in the |
| 1:36.2 | NHSCA, my favorite people to work with, humble, no ego. You could be competing against another |
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