Art of Manliness Podcast #109: Underground Strength With Zach Even-Esh

Originally published April 2015 For the past year or so, I’ve gotten tweets and emails from AoM readers telling me to check out a book called The Encyclopedia of Underground Strength and Conditioning. I finally got around to it, and after giving it a read, I knew I had to get its author on the podcast. Zach Even-Esh is a strength and conditioning coach and creator of the Underground Strength program. It emphasizes functional strength and conditioning, marrying techniques used by strongmen since the early 1900s with modern practices. Tire flipping, sledgehammers, deadlifting rocks (and barbells) are just some of the exercises you’ll find in the Underground Strength program. Zach and I discuss the origins of Underground Strength and what men can start doing today to become stronger. Show Highlights How a kid from New Jersey ended up being a teen bodybuilding champ in Israel Why you should study the programming and philosophy of bodybuilders from the 1940s and 1950s to get stronger Zach’s foray into MMA The birth of Underground Strength The difference between athleticism and strength and why you need both What you can start doing TODAY to get stronger Show notes: https://ift.tt/2L1fZhC Follow us! https://ift.tt/1FOPIX2 http://twitter.com/artofmanliness https://ift.tt/YAd15k https://ift.tt/1DUJeqE