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Hey folks, he's Ben Greenfield and my guest today is Zach Evenish.

And Zach actually just wrote this new book called the Encyclopedia of Underground Strength

and Conditioning.

He's one of my friends and he's actually one of the few guys who I really consider to

be an absolute beast when it comes to physical strength.

And in his book Zach gets into this about how he wasn't always so strong and how when

he was a kid he had self-down low self-esteem and depression and career ending injuries.

And eventually he got to the point where he learned that he was put on earth to make

people strong.

And his actual book is making me strong just because it's so freaking heavy.

But I went through it and it's actually a really good book and it's got a bunch of stuff

in here from like sandbags to working out with stones to tires to freaking kegs to a bunch

of things that we're going to talk about in today's show in which you are going to learn

whether you're a guy or a girl, how you can use a lot of these underground strength training

methods that go way above and beyond just the gym to get strong and to stay strong.

So Zach, thanks for coming on the call man.

Hey dude, this is a big honor for me and I know people always say that when they're

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