Articles tagged with underground strength coach

25 Minutes of REAL Training. While the fitness industry pushes fear, excuses, and endless debates over fads & gimmicks, we're doing the WORK and building BadAss athletes and adults. This month's Workout of the Month gives you 25 minutes of hard hitting, behind the scenes training from The Underground Strength Gym, featuring athletes and adults putting in the work. No fancy edits. No manufactured drama. Just real people pursuing strength with purpose. For coaches and lifters who are tired of weakness being celebrated and Strength being demonized, this is for you! If you're a REAL Coach who still believes and understands that strength matters, this is your kind of training. Welcome to the Underground. ????...Keep Reading

What does the past 12 months look like since Underground Strength Con 2024? Well, after being in business since 2002, you're about to find out! At Underground Strength Con 2025, Zach pulls back the curtain — no BS, no fake highlight reel — just 12 raw lessons forged through real business battles, brutal training, and the kind of life experience that can't be faked. This is the talk people were still talking about on the drive home. Inside The Underground Strength Academy, you get access to this full presentation and everything else that comes with being part of a serious community - we've got content growing here since 2005. If you're ready to level up your coaching, your business, and your life — this is where that journey starts....Keep Reading

In this Video, you get the entire presentation when I spoke at Ryan Lee's Freedym Academy Seminar, the best seminar on marketing and business I had ever been to. Ever. I talk to you about how I overcome some of my biggest obstacles struggles, times that knocked me down and could have killed my business. Instead, I stood up and fought back, building a bigger, stronger, better business & most of all, a STRONG Life. Learn from these lessons and get on the path to living The STRONG Life!!...Keep Reading

Program design from the OLD SCHOOL DAYS. 2009! This was TOUGH Training and it built TOUGH, Strong, Powerful and Durable Athletes. Also see behind the scenes footage from the early days of The Underground Strength Gym. Also included: Underground Strength Coach Cert Excerpt: STRONGMAN TRAINING VIDEO....Keep Reading

Edwin Woods is our guest Strength Coach instructor for Kettlebell technique and training inside The Underground Strength Coach Cert (USC Cert). In this video, Edwin shares the technique for properly, safely and effectively learning and teaching the Kettlebell clean. If you're tired of smashing your wrist and being an amateur with Kettlebells, watch this video and turn PRO. Technique is a priority for all of our training. Commitment to excellence!...Keep Reading

Multiple Training Videos (Over 1 hour of Videos) footage of our warm up mixed in with some lighter strongman training. This warm up addition has been an instrumental change in boosting our athletes GPP and for our adults, it has been FUN and great for their overall functional fitness. Every year we see athletes struggling more and more with GPP so these warm ups that segue into lighter power work are crucial for building durable, fit, powerful athletes....Keep Reading

In this QnA Video Zach breaks down how to properly and optimally organize strength training for wrestlers both in season and off season. This method of adjusting volume and intensity can be used for ALL athletes. Extra Video shows Medicine Ball Power Training, GREAT for In Season AND Off Season and of course, Great for ALL athletes....Keep Reading

You've seen many videos of the variations of The Underground Strength Gym warm up and here is yet another variation with the wrestlers who are training for international and Olympic level competition. Whether you train wrestlers or not, this style of training can be applied to any sport / athletes who need greater athleticism, strength and power. Enjoy yet another powerful video from The Underground Strength Academy!...Keep Reading

Inside The August 2024 Underground Strength Movie and Workout of the Month. You'll get a 15 minute behind the scenes video and screenshots of our exact training from The Underground Strength Gym to see exactly how our athletes train and how we build BEASTS. From training athletes to adult men, you'll see a variety of training footage: strength training, jump training, speed training, plyometrics, trunk stability and athletes ranging from youth through college. Dig in and enjoy!!!...Keep Reading

Special Video from The Underground Strength Coach Certification | D-Ball Training, Med Ball Training, Trap Bar Training & Floor Press Variations. This 38 minute video is great for sport coaches or strength coaches looking to lear exactly how to implement strength & power training for sports performance, regardless of the athlete. I break down the finer points of technique, exercise variations and an in-depth breakdown of the MAIN Strength & Power exercises we use at The Underground Strength Gym....Keep Reading

Zach reviews 2 programs that were homework assignments for interns at The Underground Strength Gym. This is their first go at programming a 3 week mini cycle so you will see a zoom screen share with voice over as well as an excerpt from The SSPC Cert program Design and other resources. This is a powerful resource for ANY Coaches and even parents who are trying to train their own children. Dig in and get your learn on!...Keep Reading

Watch this college wrestler go through a brutal workout mixing Kettlebells, powerlifting, jump training and more. Watch as this Gladiator demonstrates an undying exhibition of passion, intensity and a refusal to back down. If you are an athlete, a Strength Coach, athletic coach or simply a hardcore training fanatic, this can not be missed.......Keep Reading

The December 2023 Underground Strength Movie & Workout of the Month is HERE! The video is 22 minutes long with behind the scenes training footage from The Underground Strength Gym. You'll see our middle school, high school and collegiate athletes putting in the work. Also included are screenshots from our recent training cycle at The Underground Strength Gym. Take these workouts for yourself or the athletes you train and reap the rewards of our training methods GUARANTEED to deliver Results in Strength, Functional Muscle, Speed and Power! Unleash Your BEAST!!...Keep Reading

In this video you see a Saturday morning group of athletes going through the first segment of movement prep is that more health, movement and mobility focused. This is the low intensity segment of the prep, great to do for the mornings when athletes need a slightly longer warm up or at the end of the week when athletes feel the need for a longer prep and warm up. This is a great addition to our speed and athletic based warm up from The Underground Strength Gym....Keep Reading

One of the most powerful aspects of our programming at The Underground Strength Gym is our warm up / prep segment. This is where we implement power, speed, athleticism and more. It is a crucial aspect to learn from and observe if you're working with athletes of any age and any sport. If you're going through our Underground Strength Coach Cert or SSPC Cert, these videos will give you more depth so you can expand your knowledge base of building dominant athletes!...Keep Reading

In this 20 Minute Video, Zach takes the wrestlers at Pursuit Wrestling Academy (Pa.) through a quick gymnastics warm up and into a bodyweight power endurance circuit. After the circuit, Zach crushes QnA with the wrestlers and discussed how to train in middle and high school, how to train in season and off season, how to train for strength & power specific to wrestling and how to come back from an injury and / or surgery....Keep Reading

For June 2023 Underground Strength Workout & Movie of the Month you're gaining access to 27 minutes of behind the scenes training footage of our athletes. From speed training to power / plyometric training to strength, GPP and everything in between. You'll see middle school, high school and collegiate athletes putting in the work. This is not your common squat, bench and clean video footage that we see everywhere. This is a blending of training tools and methods to build BadA** Athletes. Dig in and enjoy!...Keep Reading

For April and May, we have 15 minutes of behind the scenes Video footage at The Underground Strength Gym as well as screenshots of what we're doing at The Underground. You'll see the exercises and programs that we're implementing with our athletes to gain a deeper understanding of how athletes need to be trained today, ranging from middle school to high school to college athletes. 15 minutes of fire coming at ya.......Keep Reading

The March 2023 Underground Strength MOVIE of the Month brings you almost 20 minutes of behind the scenes training footage at The Underground Strength Gym. From warm ups to speed & agility, from in season to off season training, from middle school to high school you'll see athletes getting after it as we attack TOTAL Sports Performance from ALL angles. Dig in and get your learn ON!...Keep Reading

Over 40 minutes of video and training footage from The Underground Strength Gym. In Video #1, Zach goes over the breakdown of our recent training cycle and methods so you understand how we tweak and adjust training during the holidays, how we work around injuries and how we focus on building BAD MFers at The Underground. Video #2 is a compilation of behind the scenes training footage so you can see EXACTLY what we do at The Underground, from Strength & Conditioning to plyometrics to speed and agility and everything in between. Dig in and get your learn on!...Keep Reading