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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 here today with my buddy John Fraser. John is the owner of Starting Strength

Chicago. He is a finance professional. He's a lifter now that he's

made some time in his life to dedicate himself to getting stronger because the previous

schedule didn't allow for that, John, which we'll get into. So yeah, John is on today because I want to

talk to you about your progress as a lifter. I want to talk to you about your progress as a lifter.

I want to talk to you about the process of opening and starting strength Chicago.

And I want to talk to you about your plans.

So what's what's in the future for you and how you'd like things to shake out.

So John, let's start with your lifting man.

What are your numbers at the moment and how long has your current consistent run been going?

And where did you start?

Yeah,

first of all,

Ray,

thanks for having me on.

And hi to all the starting strength network and YouTube people as well.

Currently,

I'm working hard towards my sticker.

So let's see what I did or I'm doing this week.

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