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Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.6 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ray and Ben Gillenwater discuss some of the tech used inside the Starting Strength Gyms and their reasoning behind using it. 00:00 - Intro 0:04:05 - What has Starting Strength done for you 0:09:49 - Investing in technology 0:11:25 - Three applications 0:17:50 - Mistakes in software causing financial issues in companies 0:23:03 - IT guy to business tech expert 0:26:46 - Every company is a technology company 0:31:02 - Business philosophy 0:36:15 - Two buckets 0:39:41 - Yelp 0:44:06 - Tech at the gyms 0:48:49 - Doing something for yourself 0:56:30 - Lighting in the gyms 1:05:20 - Case Studies

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Pete Rupus here. World's okayest starting strength coach. And you may know me from things such as the
0:06.1	further starting strength podcast. Well, I'll be over here to annoy you as well, telling you what's going on in the wonderful world of starting strength gyms, which I'm happy to do.
0:14.6	Ray Gilling Water call me up. He said, Pete, we'd like you to do our pre-roll. I said, absolutely, I'm in Ammo's expensive. So what's going on with
0:22.1	gyms? Well, we got a lot of gyms on the books ready to rock and roll that are still doing
0:26.3	their pre-grand opening sales promotion. Coming up soon and opening soon. Starting strength
0:31.0	Katie outside of Houston, starting strength, Beaverton in Oregon. Starting strength Chicago is also
0:36.3	taking pre-sell and filling classes now,
0:38.2	and Starting Strength Memphis is ready to launch. What else is going on in the Starting Strength
0:41.8	Gems? Well, just about every Saturday, all of our starting strength gyms have an open house event.
0:46.5	This is a couple hour event where we invite anybody to come in and talk to our staff,
0:51.5	check out the facility. It's a great opportunity if you have somebody,
0:58.3	either a friend or a family member that's on the fence, to bring them in, get them to check out the place, maybe learn how to deadlift, and then potentially sign up. Each gym's
1:02.2	hours are a little bit different, so make sure you go to that gym's website so that you can
1:05.6	find out their hours and RSVP. And then for starting strength camps going on at starting strength gym facilities,
1:12.4	we do have a squat camp in Oklahoma City at Starting Strength OKC with the vanilla gorilla himself,
1:16.8	Chase Linley. That's on January 29th. And we have a squat and deadlift camp in Orlando with
1:21.6	myself on January 22nd at Starting Strength Orlando. And then Andrew Lewis, owner of Starting Strength
1:27.6	Indianapolis, is holding a squat and deadlift camp on February 26th in Indianapolis,
1:32.3	with one spot left at the time of this recording. We do have a lot of gyms on the list,
1:36.5	but our ability to open these gyms quickly is dependent on getting coaching talent. And since we
1:41.9	will not lower our standards for coaching, we're
1:44.5	continuously recruiting and looking for folks that want to make this a profession. So if you've
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