Starting Strength Radio

Ray Gillenwater talks to the owner of Starting Strength Indianapolis, Andrew Lewis, about upcoming gym updates, insights from his training logbooks, and how training helped tremendously with his depression.

01:14 - Logbooks from Starting Strength Coaches

02:58 - Starting Strength Indianapolis updates

08:42 - Client stories

11:14 - Andrew's PRs

13:04 - Back to day one

18:55 - After LP

23:32 - Olympic lifting

27:11 - Failing the opt-in during the seminar

31:06 - Insights from training and life

36:32 - Motivation for training

40:11 - Training to help depression

47:05 - Current programming

49:39 - Blackmetal Strength to SS Indianapolis

53:02 - Can you think for yourself?

56:15 - What would you do differently if you could do this again?

Rip talks about the history of anabolic steroids, who uses them and why, and why they are completely inappropriate and unnecessary for most lifters.

01:02 4th of July

06:33 Anabolic steroids

19:20 What they do/morals

23:38 Steroids and the Olympics

36:17 A novice should just do a good strength program

42:30 Steroids help bad training

53:12 What they don’t do

Rip answers questions from Starting Strength Network subscribers and fans.

02:25 Comments from the Haters!

13:07 Ask a Jew

31:04 Structural asymmetry

37:05 Personal trainers to barbell coaches

43:29 Do you miss Bre?

44:00 Can’t straighten elbow in press

45:43 Marty Fox's silly questions

48:31 Does the CNS get trained?

1:00:50 Things to know about North Texas and Oklahoma

1:03:20 Achilles tendon injury

1:12:44 How to get a smaller belly?

1:15:41 More cooking videos

Everything you never asked to know about the franchise business is covered in this conversation between Ray Gillenwater and our franchise attorney, Tim Pickwell. If business legal minutia gets your engines revving, we feel sorry for you, but the good news is you may enjoy this podcast episode. And for those of you that say we're boring...this episode is evidence that you are indeed correct.

01:02 Franchise attorney

02:54 How SS Gyms operates vs others

05:42 Cash flow positive

06:49 Franchisee success and treatment compared to others

09:36 Majority of revenue from royalties

12:16 Maintaining quality and growing as slowly as we need to grow

20:30 Relevant regulations and why they were created

27:11 Federal Trade Commission

31:34 North American Securities Administrators Association

36:56 Are the FDD and laws obsolete?

39:49 No SS Gyms in California and New York

44:50 Thank you to our members

46:11 How many franchise companies are self funded?

48:21 40 gyms is the magic number

48:51 What could we do better?

51:19 Ray Kroc

51:58 Good things to come

57:35 We love transparency

Rip talks about muscular growth and strength increases. He discusses why lifting light weights for high reps does not drive muscle growth and adding more volume doesn't mean you're "doing hypertrophy."

02:47 Comments from the Haters!

14:57 Ask a brown

17:38 Let’s talk about hypertrophy

20:38 Phenomenology

36:19 Volume and stress are different

42:30 You have to grind

49:37 Theories must change with evidence

59:22 Hypertrophy and a “cut"

Rip and Jessica Rose the VAERS system and what the data shows over the last three years regarding emergency use vaccines.

00:28 Dr. Jessica Rose

06:20 Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

14:30 VAERS works and needs to be watched

17:05 Is the Covid-19 vaccine a real vaccine?

22:51 What is a vaccine?

29:01 Distrust in the system now

34:13 Robert F. Kennedy and Peter Hotez

Ray Gillenwater interviews Mindy Slovinsky, an online client of Nick D, about her past life as an ultramarathoner and what's it's like to lift double her bodyweight at 51 years-old.

01:25 - Mindy's current PRs

05:01 - Motivation to start strength training

07:26 - Running 100 miles twice

10:57 - What's going on in your head?

15:16 - After-effects on your body

18:08 - Experiencing burnout

26:42 - Lifting goals

29:41 - Having Nick as a coach

34:16 - Form and programming changes

41:05 - Changes in bloodwork

45:59 - Opinion on aesthetics

50:07 - Mindy's BS meter

Rip answers questions live from Starting Strength fans.

01:59 Haters!

13:15 Ask a Jew

23:09 Traumatic brain injury and testosterone

34:53 Consistent back tweaks

47:28 Diabetic and training

56:52 Should I gain weight?

1:00:35 What’s the benefit of getting stronger than I am?

Rip explains how our DNA dictates how we adapt to training, why big, strong men command more attention than small guys, and how getting strong improves aesthetics.

00:55 Rip makes ordering food difficult for everyone

04:50 Comments from the Haters!

14:45 Ask a Jew

23:12 Today’s topic

28:46 Big guys get attention

38:32 Physical and mental health are linked

39:51 Two different approaches

45:56 Getting bigger has an impact

51:29 Training for aesthetics is easier and doesn’t work

57:57 It’s worse now

1:07:22 What’s important?

SSC from SS Austin, Andrea Mates, joins Ray on the podcast to discuss Andrea's career change from teaching to coaching, why strength is essential for motherhood, body image, body composition, and her two pregnancies: one from before she started training and her most recent pregnancy as a strength trainee.

02:34 - Why Andrea became a Starting Strength Coach

10:01 - Profound changes in quality of life

15:56 - Premenopausal women struggling with bodyweight issues

20:05 - What makes up body composition?

23:10 - Misconception of the number on the scale

37:13 - Andrea's starting numbers and current PRs

42:07 - Pregnancy while being strong

50:34 - The baby is the PR

52:35 - Attracting more people to the apprenticeship program