Episode 147: Zach Even-Esh - Building Mind-Set and Monsters!

This episodes guest is Zach Even-Esh of zacheven-esh.com and of Underground Strength Coach.

Zach Even-Esh is The Founder of The Underground Strength Gym (Locations in NJ with Manasquan & Scotch Plains), Creator of The Underground Strength Coach Certification & Author of the Best Seller, The Encyclopedia of Underground Strength & Conditioning.

Zach is also The Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for The Rutgers University Wrestling Team.

Since Zach began training athletes in 2002, Zach has served as The Strength & Conditioning Coach for The Lehigh University Wrestling Team & continues to work with & consult Strength Coaches around the world, D1 Coaches, Athletes & Programs.

Zach holds a BA in Health & Physical Education from Kean University and an MA in Health Education from Montclair State University. Zach began his own training in 1989 after his brother convinced him to join the wrestling team his freshman year at Edison High School.

Since 2002, Zach has been training athletes from all sports, the beginning of which started out of Zach’s parents garage and backyard, then, at his first home in Edison where he began molding losing wrestlers into All State wrestlers and average athletes into dominant athletes.

On this episode Zach and I discuss:

• Zach's background
• Zach talks about how to develop life skills through quality training 
• Zach talk's about the importance of mind-set and how he feels today's youth and population in general are lacking in their development of this key life skill
• Zach's Personal and Professional Influences
• Zach and I disccuss how delayed gratification is a key trait to develop to attain Mastery
• Zach discusses the need to be obessed to become great
• Zach tells us why comfort is the enemy of greatness
• Zach tells us about the good and and not so good things that he is currently seeing within the physical preparation profession and what his solutions are for the not so good things that his seeing
• Zach shares with us his mission for enhancing the stardard of the phyiscal preparation and physical education of youth athletes in Jew Jersey
• Zach shares with us the "Andrea The Giant" story - This is classic!!
• Zach shares his life philosophy with us
• Zach and I discuss parenting and how getting a better understanding of human development and behavior can enhance you as a coach
• And if Zach could invite 5 people to dinner, dead or alive, who would he invited and why

 

This was an outstanding episode with Zach guys, and I hope you really enjoy it.

Stay Strong,

RB

 

Show Notes:

An Iron Will - Orison Swett Marden

 

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