Warrior Fitness is Now Underground Strength Coach Certified!

October 17, 2011

There are great new things happening here at Warrior Fitness! The first being I am now a certified Underground Strength Coach. This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Zach Even-Esh’s Underground Strength Coach Certification at the world renowned Underground Strength Gym in Edison, NJ. What an amazing weekend – I’m still sore!

Zach is a top notch educator, motivator, and coach. The man not only knows his material, but can walk the walk. He lives the code and it shows through in everything he does. Each person received individualized attention and feedback as well as group instruction from both Zach and his coached. The level of coaching expertise all weekend was top notch. Zach not only taught the participants his Underground Stength system, he created an experience.

As a quick recap, here is what we covered:

Introduction to the Underground Strength Methods
Warm Up & Physical Preparation Methods of Eastern European Athletes
Underground Baseline Workouts
Program Design Methods for all Clients
Odd Object Fundamentals
Integrating Old School Bodybuilding and Powerlifting
Underground Business Strategies
and Tons more!

We learned tons of exercises and variations, as well as progressions and regressions to help make them adaptable for all levels of clients. Together we designed and vetted several workouts for various types of athletes and individuals, then did some of them ourselves! As you can see, this was no simply sit on your butt and listen to a bunch of people talk followed by a multiple choice test certification seminar. All the participants were in the trenches going through the adversity together, getting their hands dirty, learning the system by doing. The level of energy this created in the gym and camaraderie between the attendees was awesome!

Huge thanks once again to Zach and his team of coaches, Big Mike, Travis, and Jen C., from Crossfit Central in Texas to help out with the certification!!

Want to know more? Start by checking out Zach’s Underground Strength Manual HERE!

Jon

Jon Haas, "The Warrior Coach" has been training in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu for more than 25 years and is currently ranked as a Kudan (9th degree black belt) under Jack Hoban Shihan. He has also trained in Okinawan Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Russian Systema, BJJ, Krav Maga, as well as Internal Martial Arts of Yiquan and Aiki.He is a certified Underground Strength Coach-Level 2, a certified Personal Trainer as well as founder of Warrior Fitness Training Systems. In 2008, Jon wrote the book, Warrior Fitness: Conditioning for Martial Arts, and since then has created numerous other online training and coaching programs helping people around the world become the strongest, most capable versions of themselves!