Mildly entertaining, somewhat obscure guests, relatively interesting topics,

semi-professional production quality, reasonably well-informed commentary, a great value for the money,

hundreds of fans all around the world. It's the starting strength gyms podcast with your host, Ray Gillingwater.

If you are a guy with gray hair, you need to listen to this podcast because my friend

Andy is here today.

And what I like about Andy, other than him being Mormon and a friendly fellow, is he's sharp, so he's a vet.

He's got his, you know, advanced degree.

He is wise enough to understand that the human body works best when you provide it with appropriate stress.

He's kind of a knucklehead.

He behaves like a young guy.

So sometimes he stresses his body too much, like on vacation, falling down mountains and

things, which makes it hard to be his coach.

But he discovered starting strength.

He tried to do the program himself.

He's sort of like me in the sense that, you know, as men that were kind of born skinny

and weak, that's our default state.

But we both did something about it.

And he's made some great progress.

So after trying to do the program himself, he contacted me for online coaching.

And I coached him for some time.

He made some good progress.

I then had to pass you off to the Boise Gym because my calendar got full and I don't really

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