Zach Even-Esh, the Underground Strength Coach, writes books, produces a podcast, and operates two brick and mortar performance centers in New Jersey. He started in his parent's garage and has gone through several iterations and learned a lot along the way. Just like many very successful people, he has found a way to leverage his time to be super productive and still make time to hang out with the family.

With that, he was able to talk for 35 minutes, and we are going to have to have a part two soon as I had a lot more I wanted to pick his brain about much more.

Since he predominately works with youth, I thought this to be a perfect guest for a back to school episode.

Mentioned in the show:

Garage Gym Junkie: https://marketplace.trainheroic.com/#/team/garage-gym-junkie New York Barbells - https://www.newyorkbarbells.com/ Fitness City - https://www.fitnesscitynj.com/

Show Outline:

How did you find a way to add hours to the day?

Slave to the phone and you're letting it.

The only thing you can never get back is time.

Started off in parents garage with a 300lb set from Costco.

Garage gyms have exploded. Started training out of my parents garage.

Find a way to train out of the garage.

Walking into a funeral (commercial gym)

Fitness City - house gym

Many of the great practitioners are a mix of researcher and application in novel ways. For instance your bodyweight bodybuilding system borrowed from powerlifting.

Training athletes to be athletic. Blending old school body building, hand balancing, Athleticism.

For adults, they are training for something, we train them to have more energy and fit.

Leave 10% in the tank. Leave it for your life and family.

Athletes today are way different than the ones I trained in the garage.

Applying for your gym….

How do you educate parents on the value you are providing when working with kids?

Education to move towards influence. It's a lot of behind the scene work.

You're not going to win big without effort.