Saturday, February 24, 2007

FREE Underground Teleseminar for You!

On Monday, Feb. 26th, 9 PM EST, I will be hosting an Underground Strength Teleseminar for FREE.

You don't want to miss this call!

HERE is the information you'll need to make it on the call:

Participant PIN: 725014

Dial-In Number: 1-641-297-7250


For the first 30 minutes, I'm going to give you the inside scoop on how this all began, and how I have consistently transformed countless athletes in less than optimal conditions: No facility, no fancy equipment, crappy weather and very little money!

After that I will open up the call and get Q & A rolling with you guys until 10 PM.

I have a crazy week ahead of me as I am about to head to Ohio for the Arnold Sports Festival. I'll be meeting my home boys from http://EliteFTS.com and doing a co presentation with Steve Cotter & Randy Couture Friday afternoon.

I have a million and one things to prepare for but I wanted to do something for my loyal readers!

The call will have 99 slots open, 1 of those spots is reserved for me.

Because I am a tech idiot, I cna not promise a replay file of this rare teleseminar. I will do my best to try and figure something out though :)

Until then,

get ready to travel to the Underground, Monday night!

Dedicated to your success,

Zach

PS - I decided to slash the price of my new e book as we approach Monday night for an ass kicking teleseminar! Hope to hear you on the call!

PPS - Once again, you info for the call is below:

Participant PIN: 725014

Dial-In Number: 1-641-297-7250

Thursday, February 22, 2007

The Underground Interrogations - Part I

This is a 3 part interrogation with yours truly, pay attention my friend, you're going to like what you read!

Enjoy!

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Underground Interview with Zach Even – Esh
Part I


Q - Zach, tell us how you learned about “Underground” training?

ZE – Well, without a doubt, my very first days of training at a gym always leave me with the recollection of George, a jacked dude who was built like he was carved from stone. This guy was solid muscle! He never did what the rest of us did. He trained his own way, his own style and he never cared what others said to him.

I still remember to this day watching him spend over 30 or 45 minutes on one movement! I would be finishing a workout and he was still training one movement! I remember watching him do endless sets of weighted dips, or flat benching or weighted pull ups. Back then I never saw anyone perform weighted bodyweight exercises except George. But, his arms were busting through his sleeves and his traps were stretching his shirts out big time!

My memories reminded me after many years of training by the rules, that to get seriously strong and jacked, there truly are NO rules!

Q - And now that you follow this “NO Rules” philosophy is this how Underground training evolved?

ZE – Exactly. My friend, Ryan Lee, was interviewing me one day about my training methods, and he asked me what best describes what I do. I flat out told him I don’t follow the majority of what people say or advise on doing because it usually doesn’t even work in the real world! All my training was taking place in garages, back yards, playgrounds, fields, parking lots, etc. – the only way I could describe what I do was by calling it “Underground”.

Q - Take us through an Underground workout that one of your athletes would follow.

ZE – Most of my athletes are Football players and wrestlers. I also consult with BJJ and MMA fighters. The workouts, I hate to say, are always different according to what the individual needs to work on at that point in time. This isn’t a cop out, it’s true, but, I’ll give you a sample of an off season workout our wrestlers might go through.

1) warm up with mobility, movement drills and calisthenics. This might include skipping, galloping, mobility drills such as bird dogs, fire hydrants, hip bridges and various arm circles. After a thorough warm up we then begin the workout

2A) Trap bar DL 5 x 3 – 6 reps
2B) Recline thick rope body rows 5 x max reps
2C) abdominal movement 5 x 12 – 15 reps
3A) rope climb up & down 3 x 15 ft.
3B) sledge hammer swings across right & left shoulder 3 x 10 ea.
3C) sandbag zercher carry around back yard 3 x 1 lap

We will finish the workouts with soft tissue work on the foam roller and the medicine ball.

Some workouts are all indoors, others all outdoors and some are a mix as you saw above.

Q - What is the biggest misconception people have of Underground training?

ZE – People assume we do only odd object lifts and don’t use barbell and dumbbells or other tools. This is totally off. We use everything because everything works. The odd objects hit the body in places that barbells and dumbbells simply have not or can not do.

Things like starting off a sandbag squat and ripping it off the floor. Every first rep is a power move that benefits the performance more than if we normally back squat and nothing else. The variety of implements helps us keep fresh as well. Eventually, people get bored of doing the same old stuff or training in the gym all the time! Training outdoors in the fresh air kicks ass! This is why Arnold and Franco and the rest of the crew loved training at Muscle Beach. The atmosphere and outdoor energy was electric!

Q - In your Underground Strength Kit, you have a separate manual solely dedicated to stone training! I thought it was awesome and I was shocked to see so many movements with just a stone! What motivated you to begin stone training?

ZE – Of course, watching The World’s Strongest Man competitions was always an inspiration, but in addition to thw WSM, there were times when I was really strappedf for cash and had nothing but a barbell and a few dumbbells.

At the time I trained at my Dad’s, and his backyard had a row of odd shaped stones of different sizes. I started using them with wrestlers, football players and basketball players. I didn’t have a choice, I needed weights!

To my surprise, the stone training was phenomenal. We started simple by just doing carries from one end of the backyard to the other. We did military presses, bent over rows and deadlifts.

Strength was improving like crazy and they all were improving performance. Our football guys were playing in summer camps and were hitting harder, running faster and getting tougher.

The basketball players were out-conditioning their opponents and always had the strength and power endurance to rebound the ball more often and had improved defense.

The wrestlers were dominating like never before! They were lifting kids and throwing them around like rag dolls. I was seriously in shock watching my athletes perform and hearing their success stories.

I knew we landed onto something big by combining these Underground methods with the barbells, dumbbells and bodyweight!

To this day I keep on refining the methods and transforming athletes and non athletes with these methods that I have in The Underground Strength Kit.

As for my self, these methods have breathed fresh air into my workouts, literally! Training outdoors clears my mind and gets me away from the BS inside 99 % of the commercial gyms. I feel fresh air is man and woman’s best friend and we should ALL spend time training outdoors. There is a lot of therapy that comes with training Underground and humans need it!

With all the stress we endure on a regular basis, people will realize that training outdoors makes them feel great. Sun and fresh air are powerful therapeutic tools for all people, adults or not.

In fact, I just had a Mom contact me for the second time to get her kid back here again. They live so far away that it takes them 45 minutes to an hour to drive here, one way! So I sent them to a friend who trains athletes but lives 10 minutes away!

They want to come back here! The Mother told me her son loves the Underground training, the atmosphere, the outdoors and everything we do! For young athletes, this style of training seems to be a huge boost to their ego as well. I feel this is a huge area we are missing the boat on when it comes to training young athletes – the need to train their mind first and foremost. Boosting their self esteem is a priority and I have been fortunate beyond belief to see how happy these kids are when we train together!

Stay tuned for part II with our interrogation with Zach Even – Esh and his Underground Training Methods!

If you want to learn more about Underground training in the mean time, check out Zach’s latest e book,
'The Ultimate Underground Strength Kit', which will knock your socks off! I have NEVER seen such a thorough compilation of training manuals and amazing bonuses! My personal favorite is with Coach Ethan Reeve but you’ll have to listen to him talk training to believe me! It is downright a** kicking stuff!

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Well, that's part 1 of a 3 part series and I'll get part 2 up as soon as my buddy sends it my way!
If you have specific questions, the easiest and fastest way to contact me is through the Q & A at http://Elitefts.com - I simply can not sift through all my e mails fast enough so I hope you understand.
Dedicated to your success,
Zach Even - Esh
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

You'll Love this Interview

I did this interview for my REAL Man Fitness web site but I know you'll love it as well,

here is the information:

Just wanted to hook you up with this greataudio interview I did at
http://www.liveawesome.com/public/445.cfm

The interview is about 25 minutes I know you will really love it!

It's free so enjoy it and save it to your computer!

You'll want to listen to this interview many times over!

Dedicated to your success,

Zach Even - Esh

PS - Your free audio is available at http://www.liveawesome.com/public/445.cfm

No strings attached!

Enjoy and take action with the information!
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Monday, February 19, 2007

The Man Who refuses to believe in boundaries!

Sometimes a gladiator comes along and defies all odds.

He doesn't allow the champions who reign to intimidate him, instead, he lets the reigning champions motivate him and he says to himself, "I can win, I am a man just like him, 2 arms, 2 legs, but the difference is I refuse to give up one inch of that mat and I will fight until I win, nothing less"

And so this man breaks through what others called "obstacles", he beats the so called "unbeatable" and he steps up to the challenge no matter who he faces.

Even if the devil comes out to battle, he never backs down...

Here's a man who defeated the best of the best, when he had never done so before.....

He made a decision to change all that....

take a look for yourself...



If you are a competitor in any sport, please pass this on to your friends, colleagues, fellow coaches and anyone else who you feel can benefit from this story.

More "stories" such as this need to become a regular part of competition.

I can appreciate these stories because I have seen them happen more and more lately.

I can also relate because I KNOW it takes a mindset more than it takes the right training. I trained harder than anyone else I knew, but I never had the right mindset.

I am out to make sure others don't go through my mistakes. It is now up to you to apply this lesson, or are you too arrogant to think you can improve your beliefs?

I think you'll take the right road!

Dedicated to your success,

Zach Even - Esh

PS - Check out the testimonials at http://undergroundstrengthkit.com - we've got some guy who really took heed to everything in the manuals and cd's and the results they experienced speak for themselves!

http://CombatGrappler.com

http://UndergroundStrengthCoach.com

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Too crazy to train?

Well, w/my sister in law's wedding today, all weekend has been insanity at my house.

Great fun I tell you :)

Absolutely not a free time for me to get to the garage and train.....

Instead, I've been hitting push ups for sets of 60 any time I can.

How quickly we forget about the power of high rep push ups done with high volume after we've been hitting the iron so much.

Coach Ethan Reeve did 500 push ups every morning in high school, he even did 500 push ups the same morning he won the state title!

Cary Kolat, 2 x NCAA D 1 champ would do 1,000 push ups a day!

Sometimes, our wrestlers don't begin their "workout" until they did 100 push ups, 100 squats and 100 lunges.

You'll hear in my interview with Coach Reeve about how he trained wrestlers when he was coaching in college, man, he had them doing work like you wouldn't believe, and all this work had to be done BEFORE the wrestling skill practice began!

Well, I have a few minutes, let me take off and crank out my push ups!

Dedicated to your success,

Zach Even - Esh

http://UndergroundStrengthCoach.com

http://CombatGrappler.com

PS - Maybe push ups are a bit old school? When I was a bartender the local wrestling coach and I would do 100 - 150 push ups after we shut down the bar. This man was in his 50's and he worked the liquor store next door. He always loved it when a fight broke out, it was his most enjoyable times!

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