Lessons from the underground strength gym and the relentless pursuit of excellence - Ep. 49
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Zach Even-Esh (@zevenesh), founder of the Underground Strength Gym is on the show. If you love coaching athletes then this episode is for you. Zach went from being a school teacher to building a Strength & Conditioning empire. His passion is to help athletes not only crush it in the gym but crush it in life while staying true to yourself and following your dreams. This episode takes off right from the beginning, once he gets going there’s no stopping him. There’s a lot to soak in from this episode so sit back, take it all in, and enjoy.
Links:
Get Certified – Underground Strength Certification
Topics of discussion:
[0:55] Intro – who is Zach Even-Esh?
- Working out at a young age
- Educating yourself
- Passion for Body Building
[4:23] Andre “The Giant”
- Zach’s time in Israel
- Getting out of Body Building & training for strength
- Training wrestlers & football players
[16:00] Turning a passion into a business
- Underground Strength Gyms
[19:48] Training athletes
- Physical & Mental training philosophy
- Working with younger generations
[23:50] Finding a mentor
- Joe DeFranco
- Being relentless & seeking out excellence
- Training for character
[37:46] Advice for young Coaches
- Making a living as a Strength Coach
- Finding clients/ getting your name out
- How to grow your gym
[49:57] Working with kids
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength |
| 0:02.9 | podcast. This week I interviewed one of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the world |
| 0:08.2 | Zach Evenesh. We talk about training, coaching, life philosophy, and how he got to the position that he's in today. |
| 0:17.4 | Before we get started, if you're interested in some free programs, information, blog post, videos, etc. |
| 0:25.0 | Go to brute strength training.com and sign up for our newsletter and we'll keep you updated. |
| 0:29.7 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:30.6 | All right, what's up guys? |
| 0:33.0 | I'm here with Zach Evernesh. |
| 0:35.0 | Zach, how are you today, ma'am? |
| 0:37.0 | Cool. |
| 0:38.0 | This is, I'm excited to be here, Mike. |
| 0:39.0 | Thanks, my man. |
| 0:40.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you for making some time out of your busy schedule brother. |
| 0:45.0 | Crazyness. |
| 0:47.0 | Can we start out by you just given a little bit of your background as a strength and conditioning coach and like how did you learn what you know today? |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, I mean I could probably you could sit there for an hour and I could like |
| 1:02.6 | go to the whole thing I'm gonna give I'm gonna try to go like two minutes so I |
| 1:09.1 | started training in 1989 I was like the end of eighth grade. Remember it was like a couple weeks |
| 1:15.1 | before eighth grade was over and my older brother two years older than me was |
| 1:19.7 | into just working out in general like he would run our Doberman three times a day. |
| 1:26.0 | He would always do like fear things. |
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