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

We're joined today by J.D. Thomason. J.D. is the owner of Starting Strength, Colorado Springs. He is a

senior military officer. He represents

the fact that we are attracting high quality people that have done important stuff in their

careers, whether it be in the private sector and the military, what have you. So we're glad to

have guys like JD on. Man, welcome. And I've got a bunch of stuff I want to ask you, but let's get straight to the fun stuff.

So you just hit a squat PR.

Tell us about that.

I talked to Noc Degel, Di, he says it doesn't count because I didn't get it on video.

But yeah, I got up to a 510 I've been slowly

matriculating up so I got to five plates a couple weeks ago and just been adding

five pounds every couple weeks so I go through my train plane so simple is a lot

of fun yeah yeah yeah 510 squad is beastly man hopefully by the time this air is you've hit 515 and you can send us a video so

Brie can stitch it in for the viewers to watch and the listeners to imagine.

I've got the 505 on there, but Brie would probably hit the red light because it's

remembered I was about a half inch away from hitting parallel.

So yeah, yeah.

We'll wait until we'll get till we get a good one.

Yeah, that's a good call. Otherwise, Ripple pride just shut down the whole franchise. So, uh,

you might, it might just, might just fire me. Did you know that, um, when he and I were

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