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.

Welcome back to my friend, Inacoppel. We were just talking about a bunch of nonsense that's

not interesting to you guys.

So we'll just start the podcast here.

Yeah, shh, don't tell.

You know, wanted to come on the podcast to talk about the apprenticeship and whether or not it might be right for you.

So, yeah, if you haven't been paying attention, starting strength gyms is growing. And we have 17 open now.

We've got, uh, I don't know, 15 or so pending construction.

Um, and we have more leads coming in to buy franchises than we've ever had before.

So this thing's working really

well. I'm very happy with the way the model has fleshed out. You know, we've tested everything

in terms of the types of people we're looking for to own these gyms. Most recently, we've been

getting a whole bunch of people that are most

motivated by our values. They feel like their values align with ours, which is good, because that's

the thing we look for the most in a franchise prospect. When it comes to the places where we put these

gyms, we've got data on what places work better than others.

We have a pretty clear view of what is likely to work in terms of a market in the US and what is not.

And then in terms of where to put the gyms inside these markets,

we've got a very good view on that as well and a bunch of different tests that we performed

and we know what works.

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