Zach Even - Esh is a Strength Coach & Founder of THE Underground Strength Gym which began from his parents garage & backyard in 2002.
The Underground Strength Gym is located in NJ and has had over 1,000 Coaches from around the world travel for our certifications and seminars. I began sharing my content on RU-vid in 2006 when RU-vid first came out, so you can dig deep and see some OLD Videos of myself & the athletes training from the garage, local playgrounds & more.
I have been The Strength & Conditioning Coach for Lehigh & Rutgers Wrestling & continue to consult with Coaches, Gym Owners & Special Ops Military Units.
In my Videos I focus on how to develop STRENGTH BEYOND The Gym.
You'll also find business tips if you're a Strength Coach / Warehouse Gym Owner.
I am grateful for your time & I love helping others. If you have questions, message me through my web site & I often answer via RU-vid Video.
My brother lives 1 mile from ABC, Bill is a great guy. Whenever I'm in town I train there. Not only is Bill a former Bench Press World Record holder, his members put up some amazing numbers. This gym just has great usable equipment with a great vibe. It's ironic that my good friend Kenny, when living in Virginia bought Bills version of the Pit Shark. Small world.
Growing up in Massachusetts, over 40 years ago, it was know that the Adirondack area had great Powerlifting and that gym is testament to that. The Hickey brothers were from that area and benched 650 raw!!!
Zach, I am appreciative of your creating this content and shining a light of the unsung heroes of Physical Culture- the hardcore real gym. I am in Arizona and we don’t have any of those in Tucson. Phoenix has Thorbeckes- which needs to be experienced to be believed.
Im 65 now, but that is the kind of gym I trained in late 70's-80's, just heavy weights, a lot of plate load machines , loud music and no frills. You sweated your ass off in the summer time but it was great! Great gains! I now train at home and my home gym resembles this gym!
@@charlesdunlap9149 hellz yea!!! in my next video he talks about how he welded and built that center machine, standby. I’ll update tomorrow or the next day.🏆
Outstanding upload! Back in the 80's and early 90's gyms looked a little worn out and full steel weights. I cut my teeth at 14 yrs. of age lifting in a two car garage. One bench, one rack, York plates and a barbell. Along with a pull up bar sitting above garage support rafters. God knows I miss those day's. Nowadays gyms reflect a shopping mall environment. Can't explain it fully, but I have an opinion. Gym owners never really worked out in places like your YT drop. BTW, that's a place where people go to grow. Instead they were introduced to the corporate commercial gyms and therefore, new owners provide the same.... Love the new series and I hope to see more. Thank you!
@@LoKitDown-vu2ox you are right on ALL!!! You explained it perfectly when you say that Jim of today looks more like a shopping mall than a place of work 🛠️🛠️
@@sauravverma this gym also has an area with a bunch of old-school bodybuilding machines. They are great, indestructible equipment from decades ago.🛠️🛠️
Jimmy! WOW! I drove through Irvington for 10 years to train At Diamond Gym. My Dad had a business in Irvington for a while as well, but was a very dangerous area! Thank you and would love an email from you to hear how life is going!
Thank you Zach for always sharing your love of strength over the years. Gyms are much different from when I started when I was 14, now 52. People at the gym were like family and help each other, old guys gave you tips and you gave them respect.
Can't wait to see the videos. I belonged to a gym in Newark Delaware 1980-1985. While attending University of Delaware at that time, the University only had a rusty Universal gym (the "real" gym was restricted to University athletes only). No one liked it. So there was a local welder who put his neck out to meet the needs of all the other students. He built every single piece of equipment that was in that gym (except the york bars and plates). He even welded his own dumbbells together out of solid steel pipe and standard weight plates. The gym was called High Energy Gym. Best gym I ever trained in. That gym was filled with students every day! Years later, the University created a phenomenal gym on campus for the general student body. High Energy Gym felt the blow and eventually couldn't compete and had to close. I'll never forget that gym or the owner. Awesome atmosphere!!
Looking forward to these videos! Not sure if you've thought of a Patreon or something similar. I would hope there's a lot of folks who would be happy to help preserve this kind of iron history.
I have The Underground Strength Academy and my programs on TrainHeroic. People get confused and don't know where to sign up so adding Patreon I fear will confuse people more so! UndergroundStrengthCoach.com
I am a plumber/pitfitter at a university. It is a good gig. I only have to work 40 hrs a week. No out of state travel. 6 weeks vacation plus 2 weeks sick time and i make the same as union guym Anyways, my shot is next door to the grounds maintenance landscape storage, so they have stones in this semi enclosed building. I fabricated me a table out of scrap (i am also a welder and sheat metal guy obviously) metal. On my lunch hour a few days a week i pick up the landscap stones put them on the table then put them down on a lifting crash pad i bought bought from Rouge. Anyway, one of the football player's working summer job on grounds challenged me to pick up this new stone. It was 197.23 lbs. I took is 20 dollars. Stone lifting is a great workout. So far the kid is Zero for Two. He bet he could beat me in arm westling. I am 51. He is 21.
Dad Strong Program could be the intro program and an Underground Dad Strong shirt would be dope too. Deadly Dads -The Triple Threat could be an intermediate or advanced program from all 3 of you guys
@@ZEvenEsh gym strength is one thing and impresses others in the gym but when you are attacked or need to physically defend someone you love it makes you want to abandon your beach muscle or powerlifting workout for something that can translate into real world dangerous strength. For example the Zercher squat with a sandbag beats back squats any day!!! superset that with backwards sled drags or backwards sandbag drags with an oversized sandbag and farmers walk and you can make the handle thicker by wrapping a wash cloth around the handle for grip strength.
With the amount of steroids these guys inject, they could stay at home watching TV and still be jacked. They are just cheaters, nothing to learn from them.
I would love to see a comprehensive long term program I can purchase for average dads who want to become as muscular as possible naturally but also fit to be ready for everything
I'm doing something very similar these days. It's 3 x a week and 4 triples at 315-335, in block pulls (6-inch blocks) because I strained my right knee and I can pull OK when bar is 14.5 inches high. I do them after my heaviest set of clean/snatch pulls off those same blocks, which I also use for floor presses (safest way to "bench'" when training alone). Kudos for the content & accomplishments! I could easily go to 4-5 times a week and do 3 sets a day like you advise and see what happens. Whenever I do many sets in the same session, I tend to get sore or very sore in my lower back and I'm pretty sure this sounds familiar to many of my fellow lifters out there!
Remember in the summertime when you were lucky if a person placed a towel on the bench when they benched otherwise you just laided down on the bench another person was sweating on.
hahaha I was 15 when I got a BAD infection on my trap, then it went to arm pit and then on my stomach underneath my weightlifting belt. Doctor cut them ALL out, they grew like golf balls! He told me I likely got it from laying on a bench. That was 1991. Ever since then, Towels are ALWAYS on the benches!!!
There are more Videos coming, I believe it's already up, I wanted to make a few videos. Reason being is people today can't watch more than 5 seconds, everything is a short or a reel. Unfortunate reality of today!!
