#19 - Building Better Men: Zac Lambrecht

All right.

Well, you just gave me a lot there, Zach, and I appreciate that robust introduction to how you got to coaching young men.

And I want to go back and touch on a couple of things you raised.

First and foremost, your father grew up wrestling in Iowa.

And of course, people who may or may not know, Iowa is essentially...

the epicenter of wrestling as far as the world of wrestling goes, Midwest, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, those kind of states.

So was that something that your dad, you know, as a young wrestler instilled upon you and your brother coming up, just having that mindset and that ability coming from that Iowa background of wrestling, which is very, very different than anything else.

And viewing the world through a wrestling mat, that's a way for a young man to really test themselves because wrestling Not only are you doing it to your point, cutting weight, cutting 17 pounds to get down to 103.

So you're competing at the highest level by yourself, very depleted.

But what you're doing is publicly visible, your wins and your losses, your ups and your downs.

Everybody is seeing that from the grandstand, so to speak.

Tell me about how that mindset of a wrestler has allowed you to move forward through tough times.

Yeah, I think it's been huge.

It's been a real, a real gift of, you know, that my family gave me and the community gave me through the years.

It was fun for me.

I mentioned I started at four years old.

I had a room filled with kids my age.

I mean, it was just something that you did.

For me, my uncles wrestled.

My mom was a wrestling cheerleader.

My older sister was a wrestling manager.

I mean, it was a huge part.

And a lot of it was just that grit.

That understanding that nothing's ever going to be given to you.

And wrestling is one of those unique sports where it's only you.