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

All right. Today we're here with the Vanilla gorilla himself, Chase Lindley. Chase is,

I guess the closest thing starting strength has to a

Wolverine he uses this this human cyborg thing that we grew in the lab at

Wichita Falls so chase answers the question what happens if you take these

methods that Ripatou writes about in his books and apply it to a young man

who's actually willing to do the program.

He's willing to not miss a workout.

He's willing to add weight to the bar when he's asked to.

He's willing to eat and he's willing to sleep.

And the result of that is Chase Lindley.

So Chase is a 700 pound plus deadlifter. He's a 400

pound plus presser. He's a big, strong dude. He kind of puts all of the arguments to bed

about whether or not these programs work to make people very strong. chase i think for example you'd have a

world record level press for someone in your weight class just as a normal guy that that

bumped into rip-a-toe's gym um because you were lucky when you were a young guy so let's let's start

there man uh give me give me your current age, height, body weight, and PRs.

And then let's go backwards and hear about how you discovered Rip and the gym and where

things started way back when.

Well, yeah, I'm 24 at the time of this recording.

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