Welcome back, friends. This is Zach Evanesh with the Strong Life podcast. We're on episode 461,

and this is part two of my two-part series of old school gyms that I recorded in person,

so you could see the videos up on YouTube with Donnie Rockblanks and Henri Skiba's Barbell.

And if you look on the videos, you get to see us inside Donnie's gym, which he sold the

business slash building.

And basically he took all the old York plates, all the York equipment, and he's just going to uh build out a little gym in

his garage and backyard and get back to training the kids in the community in keyport and what he did

is he opened up a new business a dispensary right in keyport beautiful uh business i was in there

saw the whole uh the whole setup.

I mean, it was really crazy, impressive, and just awesome.

So in this episode, let me kind of break down what we have going on here.

I think it's important that you listen to part one before you listen to part two,

although, you know, at the underground, there really are no rules.

But in part 2, we speak about the lessons learned from the towns that we grew up in with the coaches that we experienced learning from and the mentors.

And Donnie D. Rock grew up in Rawley, which I've mentioned in my younger years being a bartender at a shot and beer joint called Butch Coles, which was in Rawaway.

And I really learned a lot about the, I don't know, the community and the culture of Rawley.

I mean, it was like one of the most ultimate blue collar towns,

and I learned a lot working there.

I learned a lot, especially when I was covering for one of the bartenders

that didn't work in the mornings.

And he was away for two weeks.

So I would go in for two weeks and work 6 a.m. until 1 p.m.

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