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Starting Strength Radio

Owner of Two Gyms at Age 30 | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #44

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ray Gillenwater talks with the owner of Starting Strength OKC, Colby Iliff, about opening a second gym in OKC. 03:48 - Motivation to open a gym 11:30 - Starting Strength OKC or Quail Springs 14:43 - Progress with weight on the bar 19:41 - Balancing the day job with owning a gym 21:45 - Becoming an SSC 23:27 - Chase update 25:48 - Member stories 31:14 - Coaching Staff

Transcript

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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, a great value for the money,

0:14.8

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

0:30.4

All right. Colby Isliff is the man today. He's the owner of Starting Strength, Oklahoma

0:36.1

City, and soon to be starting strength

0:38.9

Oklahoma City number two. You'll you'll differentiate those as Quail Springs versus what do you

0:44.8

call in the first one? Well it's kind of in the Westmore area Westmore, which is like South

0:50.4

Oklahoma City. Right. Moore. There's a how Oklahoma City is kind of broke up.

0:56.5

There's a part in South Oklahoma City that we're in.

0:59.8

That's like on the verge of Moorish kind of area.

1:03.8

So they just,

1:04.1

they just call it Westmore.

1:05.9

Mm-hmm.

1:06.1

But it's pretty good area.

1:07.4

And then Quail Spring is right on the,

1:09.3

on the border of Edmond up in the north, isn't it?

1:12.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:13.2

Like literally not even a block or something.

1:16.2

And that's what, 30, 40 minutes from each other?

1:19.6

About 40 minutes.

1:20.6

40 minutes.

1:21.2

So you're the first one to do two gyms in one city?

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