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

Today's guest is Mark Diffley, starting strength coach. He's an engineer. He's a black belt

in Brazilian jiu-jitsu you also

knows how to kick and punch former MMA fighter former firefighter Mark's a

shit you should get to know we like Mark Mark Mark

Marks of all trades right yeah Mark single-handedly took this austin gym and turned the thing around and uh

it's got to be one of the best performing gyms in the in the entire franchise it probably is the

best performing gym in terms of net profitability and that is all a testament to your work mark

i appreciate that's that's a not single-handedly. That's a team above and below. You guys gave me

the, uh, the opportunities to make this work. And then I had a great team under me with all my

apprentices and coaches coaching staff. So I definitely couldn't have done it without any of them.

Hell yeah. And just in general, Mark's a guy that I think you could learn some things from

because, uh, he's kind of like

a Nick Delgado in a sense.

You know, you'll find a lot of people in the starting strength community that enjoy doing

hard things, enjoy learning things, are willing to make themselves uncomfortable or uncomfortable

or willing to be novices.

And if you do that enough with humility and with

intelligence and with the right work ethic, what you'll find is that you become an expert in a

whole bunch of stuff. So Mark is an expert in helping people get stronger. He's an expert in

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