The Zack Henderson PodcastMay 27, 2022
Coach Chat with Mark Limbaga
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How to be more productive this year w/ Aleks Salkin
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Dan John: The Art of Coaching
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Pec Stick Deep Dive (new course launch)
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Are heavy deadlifts "athletic"?
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What is *good* technique?
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My 1st Half Marathon
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Running Strong w/ Dr. Killian Carlton
A sad day in Nashville
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What does ChatGPT know about getting jacked?
What does artificial intelligence know about getting jacked?
Let's find out.
The "Arnold" Recap
Fun, fit adventures in C-bus.
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Adventures in coaching and CrossFit w/ Jon Harris
Jon is a strength athlete, old friend, and owner of CrossFit Gallatin.
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We went viral
Ep. 101 of the A2Z (no BS) show.
A video of Andy touching his toes got 10 million views on Instagram. Here what his 3-month old daughter has to say about it.
A2Z: No BS #100
We made it! Andy and I have officially crossed the 100-episode mark, and we’re pumped to share it with you. It’s been a long and fun journey, and today we talk about what it took to get us here. In this podcast, as in fitness, and in life, often the simplest, most fundamental things are what make us successful. Today we draw parallels between what we do as coaches, trainees, and podcasters to create success. Grab a beer and enjoy!
Debunking Flexibility, Soreness, and Protein Needs
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American vs. Russian Kettlebell Swings: Which is best?
Crossfit coach and box owner Jon Harris and I discuss the merits and drawbacks of the "American" and "Russian" kettlebell swing.
Dips, Warm-up Reps, and Athletic Cardio
Andy and I are chatting dips.
Specifically, how we approach the exercise in terms of programming and progressions with our own workouts as well as our clients workouts. If dips have been on your radar and you’ve been wanting to try them, give this one a listen as we’ve got you covered. Grab a beer and get to dipping!
Stress is the *point*
Summer is here.
And I'm not talking about the season.
Year in Review & Future Predictions
Andy and I reflect on a productive and unbelievable year.
We chat about what we accomplished; the places we traveled; the significant things we experienced over the course of the year; and of course, the goals we set and the goals we achieved. Looking forward to 2023, we chat about what we hope to accomplish in the coming year, both personally and professionally. Grab a beer and enjoy!
My Honest Thoughts on Liver King
As you might have heard, the Insta-famous “Liver King” was exposed recently for being a fraud.
Unfortunately, Liver King and people like him abound in all industries, fitness included. Today, Andy and I talk about Liver King and our beef with him and people like him, and talk about ethics in fitness, marketing, and more.
Oh Baby! Andy Van is a dad
You might have noticed that we were gone for a few weeks.
That’s because my Andy and his wife had their baby!
Today, we’re back at East Nashville Brew Works and talking about training. As coaches we often talk about training, workouts, and programs sort of in a vacuum: where real world conditions don’t apply. Obviously, lots of factors play into our day-to-day success in and out of the gym. Family, work, stress, weather, lack of sleep, bad nutrition…you name it. These things play a role in how well we perform and recover. So how do you organize and optimize your training and nutrition when life isn’t optimal? Grab a beer, tune in, and enjoy!
Kettlebells, Community, and Pro Baseball w/ AJ Holland (Docs Fitness)
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The Secret to Lifting Heavy Things
Andy and I reconvene after our eventful weekends, we’re drinking beer and talking shop.
When it comes to lifting heavy weights, what’s the best approach? How do we define heavy? How do we train our bodies to lift ever-increasing weight? These questions and more on the podcast today, so grab a beer and enjoy!
Hot Takes and Protein Shakes with Tony Capobianco
Andy and I host bodybuilder, Bostonian, and comedian, Tony Capobianco. Tony is new to Nashville but not that new to the comedy scene. He joins the podcast to talk about his passion for comedy, what brought him here to Nashville, and his enthusiasm and energy for bodybuilding.
Next, the three of us talk about our “banned exercises” and why we hate them. Grab a beer and enjoy!
Six Pack Shortcuts
Today we’re discussing the ab exercises we like to do both as coaches and trainees, as well as our evolution of ab training over the years – from doing a thousand crunches every workout, to doing no abs at all, to bringing some ab training back again.
Minneapolis Memories and Shaking Up your Training
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The Ankle Mobility Debate
Andy and I are checking back in at East Nashville Beer works and talking shop. Our fans ask: what do you think of ankle mobility drills, and how and when do you use them? Andy and I share our thoughts on mobility drills, squatting, and how we approach these with our gen pop clients.
Next, we take a moment to look over our own training over the years and consider what we most appreciate about all the work – the reps, the sets, the time punching the clock – and look fondly over what we enjoy most about where we are today.
How to get your 1st pull-up
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In this episode, we chat about cardio/conditioning equipment, gaining vs. losing weight, and how to get your 1st pullup.
Tracy Cook: 10 Years of Lifting Adventures
Tracy shares her stories from a decade in strength training.
How to get your first floor push-up
Andy and I are pondering the “what ifs” when it comes to the business of fitness: what could we do, where could we go, and how could our businesses and our skillsets set us apart professionally in the future? After all these years of coaching and training, what could the later years of our lives look like in the world of fitness?
Next, we sometimes deal with low back pain after hard training. Whether that’s with deadlifts, squats, or otherwise, you’re probably going to experience a little low back soreness from time to time if you’re training hard like us. We talk about our own experience and how we’ve dealt with it, worked around it, and some of the other changes we’ve made in our training.
And lastly, we discuss our pushup progression for those who have difficulty with pushups from the floor, how we work on them, and how we could help you get your first floor pushup. Grab a beer and enjoy!
Vanessa Edwards: The Kettlebell Queen of Nashville
This week Andy and I welcome another kettlebell nerd and stellar fitness coach, Vanessa Edwards, to the podcast to chat about fitness and gym ownership. Vanessa got her start when she was dealing with perpetual back pain. She sought treatment through chiropractors and Physical Therapists but eventually started working with a personal trainer to get stronger and build muscle.
In time, she found ways she could leverage weight and move her body to help manage her own pain and was hooked. Today, she owns her own fitness business and helps others find ways to move, lift, and train their body to get stronger, build muscle, and manage or eliminate pain. Vanessa was a joy to have on the show so grab a beer and enjoy!
My Plan to Save the World
This week Andy and I are doing an audit: when it comes to coaching and running a business, how do we improve?
How do we fit in the fitness market on a local or global scale? We discuss how we navigate our respective businesses and look to make improvements.
Next, we talk content creation and how, what, and why we approach content creation in our own, unique ways.
How to Get Jacked (Scientifically Proven)
When it comes to choosing the right exercise, training program, or diet, we’re always looking for that “magic bullet” or “best” this or that in an effort to get results fast. Unfortunately, what’s “best” for some might not be best for others. Instead, we’re focusing on “optimal.” When it comes to improving your fitness and nutrition, we like to think of ways to optimize what we’re already doing. By choosing the “optimal” approach, we can choose the right tools and strategies for the individual, as opposed to choosing a one-size-fits-all “best” approach.
By optimizing at the individual level, we can take into account unique goals and needs, schedule conflicts, personalities and personal preferences, experience, injury history, and whole slew of other important factor. By choosing “optimal” we can choose the right approach for you and yield positive results and user experience. Grab a beer and enjoy!
Overrated Lifts & the "RPE" Debate
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Go the eff to sleep: The Recovery Episode.
Highland Games & Heavy Metal with Willis Graves
Try These Workouts
Free Will and Free Weights
Mindi Martinez: Adventures in Olympic Weightlifting
Good morning and welcome back! Today, Andy and I are welcoming Mindi Martinez to the gym to be a very special guest on the podcast. Mindi hails originally from the Midwest and through work in the movie industry found her way to LA, Atlanta, and finally to Nashville.
Over the years, Mindi was introduced to CrossFit and, over time, got more serious into Olympic lifting. Here in Nashville, she’s the head coach of the Barbell Club at East Nashville CrossFit where she teaches others how to master the Snatch and Clean & Jerk.
Andy and I both agree that Oly lifts are very much a “lesser strength” of ours as both coaches and trainees, and today Mindi lends her experience and expertise to talk us through her coaching, techniques, and assessments. Grab a beer and enjoy!
Baby Got Back (Pain)
The Dad Bod Debate
Andy and I are talking about training the “skinny-fat” or “dad bod” type of client. In our line of work, this is usually someone in their 20s to 30s, has probably been active before but isn’t slinging weights or doing cardio regularly, and wants to get in shape. What do we do next? Do we diet down and try to get lean first? Or do we attack the body with as much weight training as possible to add some lean mass, maybe “recomp” a little, then diet down later? The answer is always “it depends,” but Zack and I attack the issue from two ends of the spectrum.
The Motivation Trap
This week Andy and I are diving right into marketing – writing, filming, and social media – and how we each approach the subject in our respective businesses.
Next, we’re talking about our “lesser strengths” as coaches and business owners, where we get hung up on this idea of motivation and how we try to motivate our clients, especially over the long haul. This leads us down a rabbit hole of what motivation might look like and how we talk about it or approach it with our clients. This and other bits are some things we both struggle with occasionally, and today we’re working through it. Grab a beer and enjoy!
Adventures in Acrobatics, Handstands, and Gym Ownership with Dustin Del Rio
Andy and I chat with Nashville’s own calisthenics guru and "acro-mutant" Dustin Del Rio.
Dustin and I met a few years back when he had just opened his first gym, and ever since, he’s taken his expertise in strength and conditioning and honed it in the acrobatics world. When he’s not helping regular folks learn to do their first handstand, Dustin is practicing feats of strength that don’t include a barbell or kettlebell, but rather another human being.
As a base, he can hold, flip, and balance a partner in a matter of all kinds of cool acrobatic tricks. Today, we learn about Dustin’s training history, how he got into acrobatics, what he’s learned and how he’s applied his background in kinesiology to improve his athleticism and skillset. We had a blast with him on the show, so grab a beer and enjoy!
When the going gets tough, Brush your teeth anyway
When things get tough – when work, life, or stress gets in the way – how do we go about navigating those stressors with regular training? How do we “bring it” when we’d rather do anything else? How could we change some variables to make sure we’re staying in the game without driving ourselves into the ground? Today we talk about training when life gets tough, and like most things, we hope that training sticks around, even when we’d rather do anything else. When we’re exhausted and rather hit the bed, we still brush our teeth, knowing we’ll feel better about it than if we skipped it.
Agree to Disagree (about kettlebells)
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The Flow State for Meatheads
This week Andy and I meet at an old favorite watering hole in East Nashville and we’re talking training.
Recently, we spent a Saturday morning in a new training environment – Cornelia Airpark – where we slung kettlebells and did some bodyweight work to catch a killer pump. We didn’t have a plan, we didn’t have a goal, we just made do with our environment and got a killer workout in. How did we do it? How did we reach this sort of flow state of training where everything just sorta clicks? Grab a beer, tune in, and find out! Cheers!
Sarah Arnold on Nashville’s Newest Training Facility, Delivering killer workouts, and the Business of Coaching
This week we welcome a special guest, Sarah Arnold, the Director at ISI Elite Training, located right here in The Nations. Featuring functional fitness that focuses mostly on strength training with a sprinkle of cardio, ISI Elite is here to help change the training landscape in Nashville. Sarah found her niche in fitness over the years and brings energy and passion to coaching and business leadership, and we’re stoked to have her on the show to talk about the business and culture of fitness and the Nashville fitness landscape. Today we’re drinking beer and tackling some issues we run into in Nashville and the fitness world as a whole.
Dan John on Injury, Coaching Advice, and North Star Goals
Dan John-isms and my new KB Program
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Louie Simmons & The Art of Coaching
This week Andy and I are honoring the man, the myth, the legend, Louie Simmons, a juggernaut in the field of powerlifting, and a man that was taken from us too soon. We talk about Louie and the mark he made on the lifting community, the kind of man and coach that he was, and the art of coaching and what it means to us. Grab a beer and enjoy!