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The STRONG Life Podcast with Zach Even - Esh — 121 episodes

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577 🎙️ Sprint Faster, Get Stronger: Tony Holler's 40+Year Coaching Formula 🏆

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576 🎙️ How Fatherhood Changed the Way We Coach Athletes | Jesse Burdick & Zach Even - Esh

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575 🎙️ How GRIT & HARD WORK Built an Elite Strength Coach | Dario Camacho • Camacho Performance

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574 🎙️ Dan Gronkowski: The GRONK Family Formula | How Their Dad Raised Champions

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573 🎙️ DESTROY Your Excuses: Building REAL Grit in Kids (and Yourself)

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572 🎙️ Why Today's Athletes Are Too Weak (And How to Fix It)

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Dad STRONG QnA 571 🎙️ Minimalist Strength, Simple Nutrition & Coaching with NO Technology

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When Strength was EARNED 🎙️ The Development of Muscular Bulk & Power

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Iron Roots Ep 23 🎙️ Jan Dellinger Pt 7 • John Grimek vs Tommy Kono + YMCA Tried to BAN Weightlifting!

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Iron Roots Ep 22 🎙️ Jan Dellinger Pt 6 • Ken Patera Workouts, 80s Steelers Football Workouts & Steve Reeves

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Iron Roots Ep 21 🎙️ Jan Dellinger Pt 5 (York Barbell Equipment, Ken Patera, Bob Backlund, Bob Hoffman)

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Iron Roots Ep 20 🎙️ Jan Dellinger Pt 4 (Old School Supplements, Dr. Ken Leistner's Iron Island Plates)

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Dad STRONG 🎙️ The Tractor Story, Back Injuries, Recommended Reading & Mindset

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570 🎙️ "Good Enough Is the Death of Greatness"

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STRONG Life Podcast 569 🎙️ Weak Athletes Are at Risk: Why Strength Training is No Longer Optional

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568 🎙️ STRENGTH Pioneers Who NEVER Sold Out: Zuver's, Dr. Ken Leistner & Bill "Peanuts" West

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567 🎙️ The Dying Art of Hard Coaching: Are We Raising Soft Athletes or Strong Ones?

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566 🎙️ Strength Coach Standards | Interns, Leadership & Staying a White Belt

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565 🎙️ Summer STRONG Reflections: When Life Weighs Heavy

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564 🎙️ The Problem w/ Youth Sports Training in America • Are We RUINING Youth Athletes!?

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563 🎙️ Hill Sprints, Discipline & The 2 Deadly Mistakes Dads Make

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562 🎙️ QnA • The STRONG Dad Playbook: Strong Kids + Strong Income

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561 🎙️ Dr. Eric Nager • Optimizing Your Health, Testosterone & LIFE

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559 🎙️ Building Gym Culture, Strength Coach Careers & "Always a White Belt" • Logan Gelbrich

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558 🎙️ Shock Your Muscles into GROWTH & More Strength

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557 QnA 🎙️ Strength Coach Training People for FREE!? Wrestling Dad Needs Help

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556 🎙️ Bill "Peanuts" West - Power Rack Training for "Space Age Strength"

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555 🎙️ Logan Gelbrich [DEUCE GYM] | One of THE Most Inspiring & Powerful Conversations on Coaching, Gym Business & Staying TRUE to Yourself

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554 🎙️ Truth Bombs, Training Partners & Parenting Athletes

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553 QnA 🎙️ When can Kids Start STRENGTH Training, "Physical Literacy" Fads & Gimmicks BS, Working, Training & Living like a MONK

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NJ High School Strength Coach Podcast 🎙️ Mike Defazio | Coaching Football, Starting New Programs & The ART of Coaching Athletes

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552 🎙️ Dan Goodman & Zach: How to WIN in the GYM Business

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551 🎙️ Dr. Jeff Lewis & Zach Discuss REAL Performance Training for Athletes vs BS Fads & Gimmicks

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550 🎙️ 5 Training Tips as You "Get Older" & How to REALLY Get STRONG & JACKED

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549 🎙️ Lessons as Dad, Local Business Owner & "Getting Older"

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548 🎙️ The Power of "Prison Style" Calisthenics, "Old School Strength" & what Parents MUST STOP Doing

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6 LESSONS from Blair Academy Wrestling

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546 🎙️ Nate Stout & Zach TALK: "NO Rules Training", Jud Logan Inspiration, REAL Athlete STRENGTH Tips + "PROJECT X"

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545 🎙️ Fixing the BROKEN Youth Sports Model [Lessons from The Soviet Training System]

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544 🎙️ Ray Zingler STRONG Life | Training, Business & Life on Your OWN Terms

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Skinny Teen Muscle Building, Ancient Warrior Workouts via AI, Travel Sports & Money Concerns

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What the BEST Do [Sports AND Life], Leadership & Respecting STRENGTH

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Athlete & Parent Tips for Strength, Speed, Nutrition & Mindset 🏆

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540 🎙️ The Future of Gyms VS "OLD SCHOOL" Strength AND Health

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539 🎙️ Speaking Your TRUTH, La Sierra High PE vs Today & Training Your Own Kids

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538 🎙️ Underground Strength Con Recap 🔥 Lessons in Business, GREAT People, Leadership, Passion & Purpose

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QnA 🎙️ Best Squat Bars / Squat Variations, ACL Rehab + Training Around Injuries

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536 🎙️ Coach Gags [John Gaglione] - Underground Strength Con Recap + "DO THE DAMN THING"

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Matt Keeney 534 🎙️ from Trailer Park to Entrepreneurial BEAST [Faith, Family, Fitness, Business]

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Injuries - How to Overcome Mental AND Physical Setbacks from Injuries

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Brian Bott 🎙️ Training Athletes, Changing Lives & Growing Your Gym the RIGHT Way

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Matt Wiedemer 🎙️ Building a Kick A** Gym Business [Underground Strength Con 2025)

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Kenny Santucci 🎙️ Gym Business, Inspiration from the 80s & Staying TRUE to YOU & STRENGTH

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CEO Strength Coach 🎙️ Ron McKeefery | Why Coaches MUST Master MORE Than Training & Coaching

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Why Consuming Podcasts & Scrolling Does NOT Grow Your Gym Business + Thoughts on RFK Jr & Pete Hegseth's Push Up / Pull Up Challenge

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528 🎙️ BEST Advice I Ever Got as a Strength Coach / Gym Owner

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WHY Underground Strength Con? Who Will "Carry the Torch?" - Louie Simmons, Bob Hoffman & Early Days Strongman Inspiration

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526 🎙️ Today's "Sports Climate": Football Injuries, Respect in Sports, Toughness & GRIT in Athletes

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Building REAL Strength with Barbells and Bodyweight: How to Design Strength Training Programs That Deliver Results 🏆

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5 BIG Mistakes Parents of Athletes Make that Sabotages Success

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QnA 🎙️ Dad Asks: "BEST Strength Training for My Son?" 💪 Teen Athlete Workouts 🏆

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How Athletes & Busy Dads can get STRONGER with Short Workouts

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Strength Training for Football & Wrestling vs Modern Day Mindset

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QnA: Sleep "Hygiene", Soviet Training System Lessons, Edison Underground Savages, Mindset for Changing Your LIFE

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520 🎙️ Strength Coach - Get RESPECT & GET PAID?!?!

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519 🎙️ BEST IN Season Strength Training Tips w Zach & Jeremy Hartman 🏆 WEAK Athletes: Always Injured & Do NOT WIN 🛑

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518 🎙️ Thoughts on "Speed" Ladders & President's Council on Sports & Physical Fitness 🏆

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QnA 🎙️ Struggles & Confusion in Fitness, Strength Training & Nutrition + How Strength Coaches WIN

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516 🎙️ Phil Ross & Zach on Kettlebell Training Origins, Old School Martial Arts, Training as You "Get Older"

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Iron Roots 19 🎙️ Jan Dellinger Pt 3 of 7: Grimek's Training as he got "Older", Bruno Sammartino's Workouts & Early Days Bob Hoffman / York Barbell Business

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Iron Roots Ep 18 🎙️ Jan Dellinger Pt 2 of 7 (John Grimek's Workouts & Bob Backlund's Bodyweight Workouts)

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Iron Roots Ep 17 🎙️ Jan Dellinger Pt 1 of 7 (Strength & Health Magazine, John Grimek & John Terpak)

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515 🎙️ Fixing / Dealing with Elbow Pain, Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD), Reflecting & Assessing Your Work / Career, Martial for Football and More

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Westside Barbell Lessons, Nervous System Training, Old School Bodybuilding & Beating Depression

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Zach & Joe Riggio w Former USMC & Navy SEAL, Tommy Richardson

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Coaching Athletes to WIN in Sports AND LIFE

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Why "Globo Gyms" Suck & Why OLD SCHOOL STRENGTH MUST RETURN

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510 🎙️ The Travel Sports "Matrix" & How to Fix this BROKEN Model

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509 🎙️ Lessons from 2025 as Strength Coaches | Success, Culture, Caring & WINNING Teams

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Helping a Strength Coach / Gym Owner with Business Struggles

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The FARM BAR 🎙️ Honoring the Old School Strength Greats Who Paved the Way Before Us

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Developing Youth Athletes & Why America is Struggling in Sports

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Old School Gym Stories & Lessons from YMCA, Anthony Ditillo, Lee Haney + Powerful Mindset Shift

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QnA 🎙️ Program Design: 5 x 5 vs Other "Programs", Conjugate for Strength AND Health / Longevity 💪

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🎙️ RANT on Travel Sports / Youth Sports & Why Athletes are NOT Athletic 🔥

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504: QnA 🎙️ The ONE Sport Athlete, "Potential" & Wasted Talent (BRONX TALE)

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503 🎙️ REAL Strength Training to Build BAD MFers w/ Troy Shallow & Otto Zaccardo

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502 | Mondo Strength Clinic NYC Recap 🎙️ Boyd Epley Lessons, Tony Decker (Cornell) & Dwight Galt (Penn State, Md)

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501 🎙️ Shane Sweatt: Gym Business, Honoring Louie Simmons, Building ELITE Athletes & REFUSING MEDIOCRITY

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Ep 500 🎙️ Shane Sweatt | Mindset & Training Secrets of WINNERS 🥇🥇🥇

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Dealing with Bullies - Helping a Dad Turn his Boy into a BEAST

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STRONG Life Insider # 49 🎙️ Be a GOOD Person in a "BAD World"

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Jeff Herdman | Lessons in Longevity, Compression Performance Gear & Business

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Destroy Your Weakness Before It Destroys You

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Ohio Strength Adventures: EliteFTS & Westside Barbell Lessons

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OLD SCHOOL STRENGTH LESSONS - 1969 - Dr. Ken Leistner CRAZY Bench Press Specialization: Westside Barbell, Pat Casey

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NJ High School Strength & Conditioning: What's Missing & How to Fix It

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AVOID these Common Athlete Strength Training Mistakes w/ Jeremy Hartman & Zach

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Lessons Learned from SORINEX Winter STRONG 7

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Why Men Need a Vision Quest & Comfort is The ENEMY

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Athlete Success Tips: Will Fries on Football Strength, Paul Kolody High on School S&C, Nutrition Tips for Parents of Athletes

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490 | QnA 🎙️ Strength Coach Career Advices, High School S&C "Problems", Building SELF CONFIDENCE

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Cal Dietz & Dr. Mike T Nelson 🎙️ TRIPHASIC TRAINING | Fat Loss & Training as we "Get Older", Rehab of Injuries, BEST Speed & Strength Strategies for Athletes

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QnA: Stronger AND Older? Athleticism vs Strength Focused & the BIG Problem with High School Lineman

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2025 Challenge: 6 Week Transformation Details

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486 🎙️ Joe Kenn BIG HOUSE POWER - Putting STRENGTH back into Strength & Conditioning!!

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Mike Boyle 🎙️ Strength Coach Business, Common Traits Among our MOST Successful Athletes & Making Money OUTSIDE of Your Gym Business

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🎙️ Coach Reb Brock | Football Strength & Performance, 40 Years of Strength Coach Experience, Building Championship Teams 🥇

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Business Coaching, Broken Athletes, and NJ Drones – STRONG Life Unfiltered

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20+ Years in Strength: Lessons in Business, Evolution of The Underground Strength Gym & Coaching Tactics

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NJ Football Coach Fired for Strength Training Expectations in the Off Season

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The Culture of Strength: Training Wisdom and Gym Leadership

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Raising Confident Kids & Why / How We Train for Less Injuries, More Strength & Muscle

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Jeremy Hartman & Zach: Athlete Success Tips (In Season / Off Season) + Winning Mindset

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Stop Playing the Victim: How to Take Control and Crush Life

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Underground Strength Con Recap! 🎙️ Ethical Business, Great People & the POWER of IN Person 💪

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Zach Goes on MASSENOMICS: Jersey Shore Respect, Strongman & Underrated Strength Athletes, Parenting & 80s Movies

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Where do the BEST go to Learn Strength & Business? 🎙️ Vince Gabriele Interviews Zach & Joe Riggio

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🎙️ Strength Coach Business Success Mindset & How MEN can LOOK & Stay YOUNG 💪

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Ultimate Warrior & Fight Club Lessons for Strength Coaches

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Building Strength for Life 🎙️ Airey Bros Radio 🏆 Underground Strength Training & Athletic Success 🥇