An Interview With Jen Smith, Co-owner of Starting Strength Beaverton
An Interview With Jen Smith, Co-owner of Starting Strength Beaverton
An Interview with Paul Horn, Head Coach of Starting Strength Boise
Pardon the silence lately, it's been a crazy couple of months. We've opened three gyms in the last three weeks: Cincy, San Antonio, and Orlando. We have three more opening in the next several weeks as well: Memphis, Katy (Houston Metro), and Chicago.
We have 11 open now. We'll be at 14 in January. We've just signed our 27th gym - congratulations to John Haun on his second gym, Starting Strength Nashville.
2022 is going to be a big year for us. Starting Strength Gyms is a nationwide franchise.
Lastly, I'm going to start experimenting with video content for franchise updates. If you'd like to know anything about our business, the team, our gym owners, the coaches, or whatever you happen to be curious about, post here and I'll reply and/or cover it in a future video.
Motherhood and Training with Shelley Wells - Starting Strength Houston
Rachel’s Postpartum Strength Training Progression at Starting Strength Boise
I think a good place to start that is relatively representative of the rural areas between already established gyms would be Mountain View, AR. The area has a micropolitan area of roughly 40k population with 12.4k in the city, and also is relatively active area for sportsmen, outdoor activities and a logistics hub for the surrounding area given its isolation from interstate and rail traffic.
If that isn't large enough, a look into Rogers, AR (61k, bedroom community for Bentonville and part of the Bentonville-Fayetteville metropolitan area) and Conway (70k, large college town with close proximity to the capital) would be my next bets for viable locations. Jonesboro would be a third, but its close proximity to Memphis, TN may or may not be viable for that area.
Thank you, in advance, for your consideration. I hope to be certified one day, but in the foreseeable future it would be as a part of a department and for the purpose of running a program outside of a profit.