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Starting Strength Radio

Weak and Depressed to Strong and Fulfilled | Starting Strength Gyms Podcast #41

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

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

4.5768 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ray Gillenwater talks with Jordan Burnett about how strength training and becoming a Starting Strength Coach have helped him overcome mental hardships. 03:29 - Jordan as a young man 07:52 - Simple strength training program 09:10 - Confidence comes with strength 13:17 - Do hard things 18:36 - Jordan's starting numbers and current PRs 27:43 - Coaching at Starting Strength Dallas 35:44 - Corporate life 37:02 - Big Brothers Big Sisters 39:32 - Dream job vs. corporate job 48:47 - We don't do "sales" 55:51 - Favorite client success stories

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

Today we're here with Jordan Burnett. It's Burnett, right? Not Burnett?

0:35.4

Right. Burnett from Starting strength Dallas, starting strength coach.

0:39.4

One of Brent Carter's guys just did an interview with Michael Jones.

0:44.7

So we're featuring a few of the guys from the DFW crew.

0:49.0

We featured a bunch from the Houston crew.

0:51.2

So you all will get to know the coaching staff with the gym's a bit better.

0:55.3

Jordan is a lot like me.

0:57.0

Jordan was a six foot plus, well, still is a six foot plus tall fella and was,

1:04.2

uh, exceptionally skinny.

1:06.2

Rip would refer to people of our stature prior to starting strength as tiny insect of a man.

1:11.9

He'd call me a tiny insect of a man.

1:14.7

Yep.

1:15.1

So 120 pounds, six foot.

1:17.1

Was it, wait, was 120 pounds, a 6 foot one?

1:19.5

140 pounds.

1:20.0

It was around 135.

1:21.3

135, okay, which is just, yeah, I was 168 and I was skin and bones.

1:26.2

Like my wrist and my upper arm were almost the same diameter.

1:30.1

So you were in worse shape than me.

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