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545 šŸŽ™ļø Fixing the BROKEN Youth Sports Model [Lessons from The Soviet Training System]

The STRONG Life Podcast with Zach Even - Esh

Zach Even - Esh

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 ā€¢ 682 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 4 January 2026

ā±ļø 25 minutes

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STRONG Life Podcast ep 545

Fixing the BROKEN Youth Sports Model [Lessons from The Soviet Training System]

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:18.0

Thanks to everyone for leaving five-star reviews.

0:32.9

What's up, guys? Welcome back, Strong Life Podcast. This is your host, Zach Evanesh, episode 545, I believe.

0:41.1

Last episode with Ray Zingler was great. A lot of great feedback. Appreciate everybody who's been crushing

0:46.7

five-star reviews and taking screenshots and sharing it on your social media. That helps us a lot.

0:56.2

In this episode, what I want to talk about is something that came to mind after going to watch a recent youth and high school

1:03.4

kind of wrestling week. This is the end of winter break here in New Jersey, so I was able to get

1:09.8

out and watch a lot of wrestling.

1:11.5

But I've also seen this when I go out and watch some of our athletes playing football

1:16.9

or basketball.

1:18.7

And it just made me think about who is training and preparing these kids.

1:26.2

And egos, I believe, gets in the way.

1:30.1

And so on a youth program, on a youth team,

1:35.0

you're going to have very likely dads

1:37.5

who played football in high school or college.

1:41.0

They wrestled in high school or college.

1:43.1

They did play basketball, soccer,

1:45.5

you name it. And what I'm still seeing is a massive lack of fundamentals. I go to wrestling

1:52.5

matches, wrestling tournaments. I'm watching athletes who don't even take an offensive shot.

1:57.7

They don't know how to do a takedown. They don't know how to set anything up.

2:03.4

It's kind of heartbreaking. I'm asking myself, what are they doing on defense? A basic sprawl.

2:10.3

They don't sprawl. Their knees are on the ground. They're kind of hovering and hanging over the guy.

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