Welcome to the Diesel Dad, my name is Anders van der Zee.

Today's episode we're going to talk about how you can find the right coach to help you

get to your goals.

And I'm going to do this in the backdrop that right now, if you're a busy dad that wants

to lose between 20 and 40 pounds, you need to get into the description because we are

helping dads all over the world do that without restrictive diets and spending 60 to 90 minutes

in the gym.

The reason I wanted to bring into the podcast and onto this channel today of finding the

right coach is because as I have gone through the last 25 summers, lifting weights, 25

summers, every single summer for the last 25 years, I've been lifting weights and training

with purpose.

The goals that I have had have radically shifted from the time that I was 13 to the time that

I am today at 38 years old.

When I was hiring coaches, which has been pretty much the entire, the entirety of my

strength training career, the goal at which I was lifting weights for is the impetus to

who I hired as a coach.

When I was 13 through 18 years old, my entire purpose of lifting weights was to get better

at playing ice hockey.

By the time I was 18 years old and I realized that I was 5'8", and no hockey coach in the

entire world cares about 5'8", slightly above average hockey players, I realized I probably

don't need a pure strength and conditioning coach anymore.

At the time, I was working out with the wrestling team at my high school and during the summers

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