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East Brunswick Wrestler Achieves 100th WIN!

Mark Schleiffer of East Brunswick (Princeton Commit) texted me yesterday after getting his 100th win! Mark has been an all state wrestler throughout high school and has committed to wrestle at Princeton with his brother, Jon who was a 4 x All State Wrestler and a state champion his Senior Year. I always tell parents […]

East Brunswick Athlete Gains 30 + Lbs & Confidence BIG TIME

Check out this AWESOME SUCCESS STORY of Mihir Pillai of east Brunswick. Mihir began training with us in late 5th grade while his older brother trained here. Normally, we do NOT train athletes until they are in 6th grade and older. Mihir had a special case where we HAD to help him. At first, Mihir […]

Brett Donner Awarded with Wrestler of The Year

BIG congrats to Brett Donner from Wall township who has been awarded with The Star Ledger Wrestler of the Year Award. Brett trains at The Manasquan Underground Strength Gym and as I’ve mentioned before, he is often the first one at the gym and 99% of the time is the LAST one to leave, always […]

The Champion Mindset – Stories From The Underground

Stories from The Underground….. Brett Donner places 3rd in state from Wall Jon Shleiffer wins Gold & becomes 4 time All State for East Brunswick. Heading to Princeton U with a 4.2 GPA Ray Jaz qualifies for states, has well over 100 career wins, beats many all state wrestlers and 2 x state champ, heading […]

Underground Strength Wrestlers Prove STRONG at GMC Wrestling Tournament

The Underground Strength Gym of Edison had 7 wrestlers in the Finals of The GMC Wrestling Tournament This was amazing to see. To see this many wrestlers from a tiny gym make such an impact at this tough tourney. Our small gym has become world renown and from day 1 I’ve always said the kids […]

Eric Thomas On Being Successful In Sports AND Life

Let me preface today’s newsletter with an awesome accomplishment of  our homeboy, Jonathan Shleyfer. Jonathan trains with us 2 x week and has been doing so for 2 years. Last year he took 2nd place in the state and 3rd place at The Super 32. He is in advanced classes and  wrestles on average 4 […]

Jon Shleyfer Breaks East Brunswick School Record For MOST Wins

Above, Jonathan Shleyfer gets his hand raised after breaking the school record for most wins (104 Wins!) at East Brunswick High School Jon Shleyfer is only a junior and with 3 weeks left this season he will be racking up MORE wins. His success is NO surprise as he trains year round in both wrestling […]

Watchung Hills Wrestler Wins Somerset County Wrestling Tournament

Matt Coppola started training with us before his sophomore wrestling season. That year he took 4th in the county and qualified for the states. Some thing happened junior year – 4th in the county and state qualifier. This year Matty was determined to GO for Gold. The night Matty won the Somerset County Wrestling Tournament […]

NJ Athlete Training: Football, Baseball & Wrestling Workouts

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6k4d_jU1IU&feature=share&list=UUqfeXppJ0gH-xMteusTeVEg[/youtube] We’ve got Baseball, Football & Wrestling athletes training together. How is that possible? Simple, NOT easy 🙂 The fallacies of sports specific training and other gimmicks are confusing many athletes, parents and sport coaches. Because we train for all around athleticism, our workouts build up the athlete’s strengths, attack their weak areas […]

Dedicated NJ Athletes

Above, The New Year’s Eve Wrecking Crew! Where Were YOU!!?? Monday morning, 9 am, 10 athletes showed up ready to kick ass and take names. Others were in wrestling, basketball or track and field practice. Then there were others….. You KNOW who you are. 9 am was “too early” for you…. you were “too tired”…. […]