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Hey Whats up Guys,

My Name is Ryan Magin and Like many of you guys I started out in the world of sport and competition. I started weightlifting about 8 years ago in an effort to get faster on my BMX bike, and I really wanted to impress some girls.

You see at the time I was every bit of 170lbs skinny and weak. This was not the ideal body type of a wanna be pro athlete who wanted to get some girls.

At the time I did what many of you guys probably did went to the bookstore bought a couple magazines and joined the local franchise gym.

Now after about 2 years of lifting at that gym I had made some decent gains and now weighed about 185lbs(I know don’t laugh) and still wasn’t fast enough to turn pro on my bike.

Confused…

I searched the internet for anything that might help me and I stumbled onto a life changing article…

Westside For Skinny Bastards written by coach Joe Defranco…

This article made sense and I dove into head first, and the gains started coming. I began to get stronger and stronger and then after another few months I was over the 200lb barrier and significantly faster while riding my bike.

So by now I was on a mission and I kept getting stronger but still in the back of my mind something was missing?

Although I was still getting stronger I just didn’t feel as athletic as I should have been.

Then came a disastrous day….

I was still training at the local Bally’s gym and it was Deadlift day (my favorite), I was gearing up for a monstrous
405 pull (I know cut me some slack lol).

I was in the Zone fired up reached into my bag grabbed some chalk (which wasn’t allowed in the gym), grabbed the bar and ripped it off the floor and completed my first rep…

Always trying to improve myself I went right into rep #2 and got it just above the knee… I was grinding but it wasn’t moving, my grip gave out and the rep ended with a big crash as the weight hit floor.

Psyched… I unracked the weights (which doesn’t happen to often in the commercial gyms) and was putting them back when Mr. Head personal trainer told me to stop by the office on my way out, I obliged…

Grabbed my bag and went into the office only to be told I was a disruption to the member and he was going to politely cancel my contract and I was to be on my way.

I was baffled…I didn’t know what to do, the gym was my life and this guy just took that from me.

Still this idiot was not gonna stop me, I still wasn’t a pro on my bike and I was finally starting to get recognized by the opposite sex.

Without any money and with no intention of joining another commercial gym to be told I can’t lift the way I want, I faced quite a predicament…

Thank god for Google because without It never would have known there were people just like me all over the world that came together at a website called Undergroundstrengthcoach.com and it was run by Zach Even Esh.

He opened my Eyes to the options of bodyweight training, odd object lifting and that I could have a gym in my garage…

I was fired up…I saved up money bought a barbell set and went to town, next thing you know I had an all out underground strength empire in my parents garage.

By know I was on a whole new level and finally able to turn pro on my bike and was competing regularly but my passion for strength was running deep.

Everything was coming together and I was attending seminars going to conventions meeting all the guys that I looked up to, I was on another planet.

While reading Zach’s site one day I read of a guy who was starting outdoor bootcamps in my local area…

His name just so happened to be Elliott Hulse, and he was beginning his strength camp empire and we became friends and I haven’t left his gym since.

I still had not found the ultimate combination of training methods until me and Elliott went to Sarasota for a seminar with local strongman Tom Mitchell.

He put me and Elliott through what at the time was the most insane workout of my life…but I was hooked.
I had found the holy grail of training styles STRONGMAN.

You see with a combination of strongman, powerlifting, bodybuilding, and bodyweight exercises you can turn the average person into a lean hybrid muscle monster that can achieve anything in his path.

Talk to you soon,

Ryan Magin