An Interview with Ray Gillenwater | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #26

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Mark Rippetoe

Training, Fitness & Nutrition, Strength, Barbell, Health, Fitness

4.6 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Inna Koppel interviews Ray Gillenwater on his podcast about Starting Strength Gyms and what went into him creating the franchise company and team. 03:02 - Starting Strength Gyms was the next logical step 11:38 - What each Gillenwater does/Whose idea was it? 15:07 - Design/floor plan of the gyms 21:05 - Why there isn't a front "sales" desk at a Starting Strength Gym 32:05 - Advice for continuing education/becoming a Starting Strength Coach 41:38 - The Starting Strength difference 47:48 - How gym owners are chosen 54:51 - Our Values at Starting Strength Gyms/Gratitude

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0:00.0	Mildly entertaining, somewhat obscure guests, relatively interesting topics,
0:07.0	semi-professional production quality, reasonably well-informed commentary,
0:12.7	a great value for the money, hundreds of fans all around the world.
0:17.5	It's the Starting Strength Jim's podcast with your host, Ray Gillingwater.
0:30.1	Okay, welcome back. Today, the show is about me, I guess. I know wanted to interview me.
0:34.8	So I agreed because we need to get some content out.
0:37.9	And this should be pretty easy.
0:39.5	So, Ina, do my job.
0:41.9	Take it away.
0:43.4	Excellent.
0:44.3	So I'm here today with Ray Gillenwater, who's the president and co-founder of starting strength
0:49.5	gyms.
0:50.2	He's working on building 100 gyms in five years to make training in person with a starting
0:55.3	strength coach more accessible for more people. Ray is not only a business strategist, but he's
1:01.2	also a starting strength coach. And along with his siblings, Ben and Jen, Ray is partnering with
1:06.9	RIP and Steph and the Asgard company to bring something new to the fitness industry,
1:11.1	something that actually helps people get strong.
1:13.8	So, Ray, welcome to your own podcast.
1:16.0	Damn, you had that planned out, didn't you?
1:19.2	You know, Ray, there's a lot of people, believe it or not, there are a lot of people who don't
1:23.6	know who you are or what starting strength is.
1:27.4	Quite honestly, I prefer it to be that way, but someone's got to tell the story about what the
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