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

Today we're joined by Michael Jones from Starting Strength Plano. Michael is a starting

strength coach. He's in the Dallas gym at the moment. He works for Brent Carter, the owner of several gyms in Texas and soon to be all over the country,

potentially.

Michael and I bumped into each other at the latest coaches conference, and I was like,

holy shit, Michael, you look great, man.

I don't know, tell me what you've done.

You're almost unrecognizable.

You've leaned down.

Oh man.

So yeah, I thought I thought Michael and I would get on the podcast today,

talk about his role at starting strength, Plano,

talk about his personal story with starting strength,

talk about his career progression as a coach,

and whatever happens to pop up.

So welcome, man. Thanks for having the

conversation. Yeah, man. Thanks for thanks for having me. Enjoyed seeing you at the

conference and before at other functions. Currently, I am team mentor and staff coach at Plano,

which I stepped into about a month ago. And Brent graciously, when a position opened,

he let me know. He was, it's been a mentor and good friend for some time now. And mentored me

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