Welcome back to the Strong Life podcast. This is your host, Zach Evanesh. I believe this is episode 460.

Had a great time chat with my buddy, Jim Wendler. Jim and I have been friends for 20 years. All right? I still remember our first phone call when he was working for Elite FTS. And I think like this, guys, I remember 20 years

like yesterday, 20 years from now, I'm going to be 68. And so that is a reminder to stop sitting on

your ass and stop procrastinating, stop waiting for the sun and the moon to align to get things done.

The time is now.

Jim and I speak about the purity of the older days, not just from the early 2000s,

strengthening, but we speak about the 80s and 90s about how we learned about and how we learned from athletes and movie stars.

Talking about kind of some of the aura behind not knowing everything in somebody's life thanks to social media.

Speak about guys like Walter Payton or current day guys like JJ Watt.

Of course, we speak about training high school football players.

Jim is a volunteer strength coach at the local high school.

And Jim authored multiple books titled 531.

He has different volumes and different iterations of it.

And his success with 531 has really allowed him to live life on his own terms, to answer

to nobody, which is really the ultimate, in my opinion, it's probably the ultimate

American dream, especially with the craziness that we see in today's country.

Jim's website is Jim Wendler.com. He's got a private forum that we see in today's country. Jim's website is jimwendoor.com.

He's got a private forum that I'm inside.

It's an excellent forum.

And if you're looking for more kind of never seen before footage of Jim Wendler,

whether it's audio interviews or videos,

we have them inside the Underground Strength Academy, which is

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