Do you ever feel like you're doing the right thing yet deep down you feel like you're doing the wrong thing?

Spartans welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way podcast I'm your host

Zach Evernesh coming to you from beautiful Pittsfield Vermont

the birthplace of all things Spartan and in today's episode I want to talk to you about finding strength in solitude.

And I'm going to bring you back to my early years of starting the business of the

underground strength gym, early 2000s, at a time where I really felt out of place. I knew that I was doing

the right thing in my heart but it wasn't the common thing that everybody else

was doing and the common thing that everybody else was doing.

And the common thing at the time was functional fitness,

where people were doing stuff on one leg

and stability balls and balance boards. And I remember saying to myself I just don't connect with that.

I connected more to doing something like this,

sprinting hills outdoors, carrying tree logs from a tree that we cut down,

lifting stones, training in a garage,

basically doing at the time what was very underground and unorthodox which today we see is very common.

And when I was trying to fit in with the crowd to wear a collared shirt to tuck in my shirt and to implement that

training my heart kept telling me this is not the way to build these beasts

this is not the way to build hammers and I remember saying you know what I'm

going to live my truth I'm going to be who I am I'm going to write about exactly

what we do and document things we do and I'm not going to do what the others are doing the

common path and I'll tell you people called me an idiot and that's probably some of

the nicest things some people said but looking back on it I could say I lived my truth I did

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