September 9, 2025 • 23 mins
Kenny Webster interviews author JD Shipley and MAHA activist Jesse Henry.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hi, everybody, Kenny Webster, welcome back from break Stay representedive.
Brian Harrison was just here and we're gonna do something
a little different here for the next twenty or thirty
minutes or so.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
If you're just getting connected to us.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I am filled with in a room with so much
testosterone right now. This is like if Hamburger Helper made testosterone,
this would be testosterone. I have JD Shipley in here,
a brilliant author, personal trainer, strength training coach, owner of
Starting Strength Houston, Starting Strength Katie in the house right now.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
JD.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
How you doing? My brother?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right?
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I have to figure out what it is that I'm
gonna right to fill the brilliant author author's shoes.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But I'll take it when I have a challenge. When
I look you up online, it says JD. Shipley, author,
Did you not know that? No, that's a thing online.
I've written one article for the Starting Strength website. Did
you think I just made that up? I found that
online under awesome And then also here in the building
right now, public speaker, he does TED talks. I often
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refer to you as a right wing environmentalist. But that's
not fair.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
That's not what It's not really fair. I'm non's all nons.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
He's not a right wing environmentalists. That's crazy. He's not
an environmentalist.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Well, I'm gonna accord they.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Jesse Henry, you're my neighbor. And JD.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Shipley, you guys are both actual friends of mine, but
you both do something really interesting, and the three of
us have something in common.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I am a man, you're a man. You're a man.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We all have this crazy radical belief that there's men
and there's women, and that's really it. There isn't seventy
six other things. That's kind of and that shouldn't be
a radical opinion. But because men are unique to women,
we have health needs that differ greatly than women do.
And this isn't one of those radio segments where we're
gonna try to sell you supplements or you know, testosterone
shots or I'm not selling T shots. I don't know
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if you guys are, but if you do need supplements,
go to get the T dot communis promo code w J.
But both of you have a very unique take on health.
We're all involved in the same strength training program. I
always describe it as it's a very elite strength training
program called Starting Strength, created by this guy named Mark Rippletou.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Mark's a little controversial in.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And of his own right, Jad, how do you explain
who Mark Rippletou is to people that don't know?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Oh, my gosh, h Mark Rivetzo is.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So he's a guy who authored the book Starting Strength.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
It is a distillation of years of experience, and he's
let the data kind of speak for itself, and I
think he carries out he carries he carries that mindset
throughout the rest of you know what he does. He
lets he lets the data speak for itself, and he
will adjust his opinions if the data proofs proofs otherwise.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
During the pandemic, Mark rippitel on a national level because
he created this fitness program that's used in gyms all
over the countries. He was considered to be one of
the original guys to say closing the gyms is a
bad idea. If this is a health epidemic that affects
the immuno compromised, not exercising is one of the worst
things that you could do. At the time, that was radical.
(03:27):
That was a crazy thing to say. Now that's what
everyone thinks, that's conventional wisdom. Most people would agree closing
the gyms during a health epidemic, telling people they couldn't
go to the beach.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
But at the time, you guys at starting strength.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, now even liberals agree with that, But at
the time, you guys got a lot of pushback, didn't
you quite a bit?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What was that like? Did people criticize you or you
attacked for it? Did it? Did anyone say anything to you?
So we so.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
We closed down because we didn't know what all we
were going.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Through and you were legally allowed to or required to
it first, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Well we did it because we didn't We didn't you know,
we weren't sure what all, what all this was going
to be. Then you know, quickly, fairly quickly, we realized
that you know, there was more. There's just more going,
you know, going on that that that that closing didn't
didn't make sense. And so we opened up a couple
weeks early and we got we got one message posted
on our door that blamed us for some for for
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that person's uncle dying.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So you guys, so you guys close opening your gym
caused somebody to die retroactively.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
That's amazing. How did that? How's that even possible? I
don't know, But now.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Nobody disagrees with that. Look I have liberal Democrat friends
who look back on it. They're like, yeah, if only
we knew now what then what we know now is like, well,
we did kind of know.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Anyway, I digress. This isn't about that. Jesse.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You're interesting too, because five or ten years ago you
wouldn't have been considered conservative or right wing or anything.
But because of Bobby Kennedy Junior, because of the Maha movement,
which a lot of moms and parents and you know,
people that ten years ago, like Elon Musk, would have
been considered a liberal, now I'll find themselves on the
political right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
But it's not even political right.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's just the idea that you don't want chemicals in
your food and drugs that are harmful that shouldn't be
political at all.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Nothing about what Bobby Kennedy's doing is political. Now. I
get how people that are concerned with vaccines are concerned
about what Bobby Kennedy's doing.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
But if you look at what he's doing in.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Food and agriculture and the chemical sector and the pharma sector,
most notably reducing the amount of chemical and toxic exposure
on everyday goods and items, you can't argue that that's
a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And this was a liberal talking point I think five
or ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
All Right, I agree with most of what you're saying,
but I've never actually heard of anybody who died from
microplastics in their testicles.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Explain, please, So I don't think.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The microplastics in your testicles might not kill you, but
they're definitely going to disrupt your endocrine system, your brain chemistry,
and your gut biome.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Explain how it affects your brain chemistry. Is what is
plastic in my junk doing to affect my brain?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
So, by and large, one of the things that's destroying
our planet right now is chemical warfare, and it's a
war that's happening in silence. Most people don't really understand
that this war is happening. And so what's happening is
we're getting exposed to all these synthetic ingredients, and one
of the most common synthetic ingredients is plastics, and plastics
have been shown to disrupt your endocrine system. There's cancer
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causing agents in there, there's neurotoxins, there's a lot of
chemistry and plastic. So it's not as simple as just
saying plastic is good for the world or bad for
the world. We wouldn't survive as a species if it
wasn't for plastic. Think about the base of Maslow's hierarchy
of needs.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And what am I consuming that might cause the plastic
ten up in my body?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
So inside every plastic bottle of water, there's at least this.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Bottle of water that I'm drinking from right now. What
as he's drinking right unbelievable. Why didn't you say something?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Apparently at least two hundred and fifty thousand microplastics, some
people who calculate nanoplastics say it's much much, much higher
than that, but I've lost count at this point.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
A right Jesse, you moved to at the beginning of
the summer so you could take a U so you
could do consulting work in the energy industry.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
To spare people a long winded story. And you were
my neighbor. You live across the hall.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You were only going to be here for a few months,
and you and I started hanging out at some point.
We had a lot in common politically, lifestyle wise, all that.
You know, not gay, I guess you know, played platonic neighbor,
good guy. No, there's anything wrong with the gays. I
just you know, Jesse and I dated similar women, you know,
lived as similarly. And I said to you, what kind
of numbers are you putting up? You're six foot five,
You're in amazing shape. And I was no offense, Yep, I was.
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I was a little underwhelmed by the kind of numbers
you were putting up in the gym, for sure. And
I said to you, if you started taking JD. Shipley's
strength training program starting strength here in Houston also and Katie,
it was going to transform you.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Didn't do that.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
It ten xt anything that I could have assumed to
be beneficial for me. Now keep in mind, I spent
about what you know, two years of what I would
spend at Planet Fitness in one month of Starting Strength.
But I was lifting the same weight for ten years,
and I was doing everything the hard way. I was
working out six days a week, I was working out
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super sets, I was really stressing my body. When I
came to Starting Strength, they really flipped the model on
its head. So it's three days a week. It's strength training,
it's not weightlifting. So it's really broke the paradigm for me.
And over the past five weeks, I've been able to
hit numbers that I thought were imaginary.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Jad, can you explain that? What's the diffget strength training
and weightlifting?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
So I will reclassify the way the word weightlifting is
as exercise, So strength training.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Is is the accumulator.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
You're you're pursuing a physical adaptation, right, You're you're pursuing
a particular goal, So everything is oriented around that goal, right,
And so for strength training, we are we are training
for the increase in strength, So everything is geared towards that.
And the reason that we do that is because being
stronger makes everything else that you do a little bit better.
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It makes conditioning it easier, it makes it makes daily
life year. It makes you know, uh, you know, the
for the for the six year old grandma who wants
to get down on the floor and with their kids,
and it makes it easier for her to do that
and then get back up again and may and as
just as much as as it makes it easier for
the for the seventeen year old running back to uh
to hit the line you know harder, right, it just
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makes performance, daily performance, a whole lot easier.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
When people get older, they always have this idea, this uh,
you know, common sense to tell you you're not supposed to
lift weights when you're old.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
But that's the opposite of all.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
That is, that is exactly the opposite is actually the
people who are who are older, who have lost muscle mass,
who've lost bone density, who lost the uh, you know,
certain physical capability, who need it more than anything else, right,
you know, the you can you can make the argument
that youth is wasted on the young, right, And so
it's it's as you get older, you realize what you
you know, what you don't have anymore. And so those
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are the ones that those are the people that benefit
even more from from.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Strength training, I will tell you, and I've made this
point before about starting Strength DRIM that it changed my
life that I started. I just coincidentally started on this
program at a time when I was dealing with some
other thing in my life that was causing me problems,
and that just you know, I don't believe in coincidences,
and I think God put me in this program right
when I needed to be in it, and it just
changed me mentally, physically, on a molecular level. I'm going
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to tell that story when I get back, and I
want to hear Jesse's story about how JD's program and
just a matter of a couple of months changed his life.
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Speaker 4 (10:46):
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guess That's what I took from this oneon. Hi, everybody,
welcome back. I'm Kenny Webster. I am here right now
with two of the manliest men that I know. Jesse
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Henry is here from the MAHA Movement. J D Shipley
is here right now from Starting Strength Houston.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
And JD.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I know I've asked you this story before, but at
some point and just if you could give us the
cliff now, it's real quick. For those that are new,
who are you? What is Starting Strength? What is it exactly?
To those people in the Houston area or other there's
other people around the country that have a Starting Strength
gym in their city.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
They might not even know it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Who am I?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I'm just some some random guy from Spring, Texas that
opened a couple of a couple Starting Strength gyms in
Houston and looking to open more. My mission is to
help people get stronger, leave better lives by by getting stronger.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And what is Starting Strength?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Starting strength is a strength training method that is the simplest,
most effective method that that that that you can use
to to get strong.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And that's really it. It's about data.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
This guy, Mark Rippeto figured out get rid of all
the shortcuts when you see videos on the internet of
women doing aerobics with a bungee cord or people wearing
moon boots or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
That stuff silly. It doesn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
If you want to actually get stronger using data, using
analytics about your body type, how tall you are, how
strong you are, here's the fastest way to get your
numbers up. And I didn't lift weights at all before
I started taking your program three years ago. Now it's
like a drug addiction for me. I have to do
it every week. Why do you think that.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Is Huh, that is a good question. Dopamine Jesse, Yeah,
dopamine rush Man. It's a playground.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I it's it's like it's like you're you're tapping into
something and you're and you're you're, you're you're getting off
in a new way. And I think men who look
at the gym as a playground in someplace that they
want to go and they want to be those are
the people that'll stay fit forever.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Part of what's interesting about the program is that there
is no gimmick. The gimmick is that there's no gimmick,
and that's kind of hard to explain to people until
they do it. Is like no look, this actually works. Oh,
it's just lifting weights. Well, it's not just lifting weights.
Most people that lift weights are doing it the wrong way.
Can you elaborate on that a little?
Speaker 6 (13:13):
I think most people, most people chase the pump, or
they will chase body part splits, and they'll they'll.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Chase the pump.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So if you do, if you do enough enough work.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
On a on like you know, with a particular lift,
your bodies will flush with with blood and you know
you'll you'll feel you'll feel a pump. Right, you'll feel good. Yeah,
and and that's all. That's all well and good. But
it but it's not. It's not an indicator of success, right,
it's good.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Well, this is a little you know, I made a
point there, and I don't know why. Pavlov's dog here.
You just reminded me of something. Forget me, fugg They've
got a little racey here for just a second. Women
have reported that men that are in this program. How
do I explain this become girthier because of I can't
think of a tasteful way to explode. That's true, isn't it.
That's scientifically proven to be true. Men that don't have
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a lot of testosterone. Men that don't work out, men
that are soft all over, tend to be soft in
the places where it matters the most.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Right, And that's.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Awkward because you're worried your daughters might be watching this later,
but they're not.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
No, I mean, I've got I'm so uh yeah, so
when when i've oh god, my wife's my wife's gonna
kill me for saying this. When when I when I
first started the gyms, the gyms were never even a question, right,
I just wanted to see how, you know, I just
wanted to get stronger. And uh and I remember what,
I don't know, it was working out two, three, four
or five months and and and my wife says, yeah,
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things are things are better, And I was like.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Dude, I'm never not squatting ever again. I'm gonna go
squad right now.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Actually, well, that just goes to show the the the
best way to increase your testosterone is to lift heavy weights. Yeah,
that's it. There's there's no you don't need a bunch
of TRT. You need to go pick up heavyweights and
do it multiple times a week. And you know it's
not like the TRT hurts. So maybe that's helpful to somebody,
but you don't need it. I didn't do that. I've
people in the program. Most people in the program don't
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do it.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I've known.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I've met a couple of men that have. And that's
that's okay, right, Like, that's not a problem. RFK Junior
does the TRT does RFK.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I believe he does.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
And he's and he.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Is terrified of anything chemical related, and oddly he's okay
with that.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's actually really good. It is a good point.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
My concern with the TRT thing is that once you're
on a synthetic it's really difficult to get off it
because now your body is reliant on producing that testosterone
through synthetic means as opposed to a Why that's why
I like. I don't take a bunch of supplements. I
like going to the gym. I've worked out for seventeen
years and my weight was the exact same for seventeen
years until I joined this person.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I take supplements. I like creatine, glutamine. I don't even
know what glutamine does, but if I don't get it,
my veins will explode.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
All right, So let's talk about this before we run
out of time here, Jesse. I talked you into taking
the ProTem What did you give us? Just what did
you expect from it? And then what did it actually
turn out to be?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Like?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You know, I feel like the reason why people don't
succeed in the gym is one of two reasons. They
either aren't they don't have the effort, or they don't
have the guidance. And I was putting in the effort
for many, many years, but I didn't have the guidance.
I didn't have someone standing over me and saying, you
did a good job on your squad this week, We're
going to increase it five or ten pounds next week.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Is scary, that's scary.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
So before yesterday's workout, I psyched myself out for fifteen minutes.
I'm like, I'm gonna go put three hundred and thirty
pounds over my back. Yeah, yeah, scary.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And here's the end. So that what did you So?
What did you get out of it?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Man, it's not just the amount of weight you lift,
it's the type of person you become on the journey
to lift that.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Type of weight.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I earned the right to be able to squad three
hundred and thirty pounds yesterday or dead lift four hundred
and five pounds yesterday. I earned the right to get
to that platform to do that because I put in
the work over the month. And it wasn't just that
I put in the work. I had to ride my
bike six miles each way every single time.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I did it because you don't have a car here
in Houston, and it's not exactly a good city for
biking around.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
But you did it and that helped too, didn't it?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It did?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It doesn't hurtle. Bit of a cardio doesn't hurt you.
Guys have a bike in the gym. A little bit
of cardio is technically part of it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Right, It's actually part of the program later later on,
as it as it evolves.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
So let's talk about this then.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
A part of men's health is mental health, and I
think that it's it's a cycle. You get better in
better physical shape, your mental health improoves. Your mental health improoves,
you feel like working out more. You feel like working
out more, you look better, you look better, your mental
health improofs. That's a part of this that you don't
really know how to explain to people until they try it. Right,
It's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, did it do that to you?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Absolutely? Right? So I started. I started because I wanted
to see how strong I could get. Right.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It was It wasn't it wasn't an aesthetic thing. It
was more of a capability thing. But it was it
was very much a a maybe a selfish or not
an altruistic you know, altruistic goal. I just you know,
it was something that I wanted to do for me, right,
there was so I guess what I'm saying is there
was some vanity in there, right, And and the further
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along I got into it, right, the stronger, the stronger
I got, the more the more capable I was, the
more sure of myself I was, the the the just
the more and more grounded, I guess, you know, you
can say so I was, I you know I could
We're lifting heavy before was was scary, right, you know,
going into it. At some point it flipped and and
lifting heavy was just a standard thing that I.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
That I did.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
It's become normalized exactly, and so it's just it becomes
par for the course and right, So the bodies of
body is a system, right, so the mental health is
a is a is a system all in of itself
and the physical sides a system all in of itself.
But but like those systems, they play into each other,
so you don't get improvement in one without the improvement
in in in the other.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Jesse, you been in the program for a little more
than a month at this point. Yeah, So it's hard
sometimes to see your mental health change unless you look
back at where you were two or three years ago.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Like I was in a divorce when I started this program.
But do you see it?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I do?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I feel it, and and I think one thing to
note for men out there is is after you finish
a workout, you always feel better mentally and emotionally, and
emotions are just energy and motion, right, And so if
you're a man that's sitting out there and you haven't
hit the gym in a while, this isn't a means
to shame you. This is a means to say, hey,
if you're not in a good mental and emotional place,
try going to the gym, Try getting a sweat, and
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try pushing yourself a little further. Because the best version
of all of us is a version of us that's stronger.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
One of our listeners on social media right now, watching
us from the Roman Empire There's a guy named Artemis
and he says big legs, not necessarily calves, quads make testosterone.
I don't know if he's right or wrong. Is there
what do you guys think about that? I believe that's true.
The legs are the biggest muscle.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
If you make the if you make if you make
the muscle growth right, muscles, muscles are more than more
than just then just movers of bone.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Right there, there is a there is a gland effect
like they will help. They will help the.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Rest of the rest of the systems produce, produce what
you know, produce what the body needs.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Jesse, you move away from Houston on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
That will be your end of your little experiment with
Starting Strength. I know you're going off to Canada and
that's terrible. I don't know are even weightlifting even legal
in Canada. I don't think it is.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Depends if we make it the fifty first state of mind.
It might be that joke doesn't go over well.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You ever see, if you're going to travel around, there's
Starting Strength at Florida where you live. You know, do
you see yourself doing this program?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Starting Strength in Miami is very, very very far south.
I definitely see myself continuing with squat, bench, deadlift press
as the main functions of working out and everything else
will be ancillary.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I love it, man, JD. You you know you've got
these two gyms in Houston. They're very popular. The one
in Houston's almost only sold out. The one in Katie,
I'm told as a little more space, which to our listeners.
We have a lot of listeners out in Katie that
might they might actually be able to take advantage of that.
If people want to try this program, and I got
to tell you, and when I say this changed my life,
I mean it changed my life. Well, it's the best.
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It's the cheapest way to get one on one fitness training.
It's the cheapest way to transform yourself. It's the easiest
way to become stronger. If I'm not selling this, well,
I think the best thing people could do is just
come in and try it.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
How do they do that?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
You know, so what I would say if you're in Houston, obviously,
you know if you google Starting Strength, you'll find that
you'll find the gyms. But you've you're syndicated across as
across the golf coast, and we you know we've got locations, uh,
you know, locations across the golf coast.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So wherever you're listening to listeners.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Right, if think google Starting Strength, they'll find a they'll
find a Starting Strength gym in there and you know,
as close to their area as possible.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
And people can take an introductory course for free.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That's still a thing on anybody's website. You just go
to any of the starting Google or whatever search engine.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I'm not trying to promote Google, whatever search engine you
prefer to use. Dug yeah, duc dot Goh yeah, problems
with that one too. I'm gonna ask Jeeves guy.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's me.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm a big guy, but I'll that being said, all
you search for the words starting Strength in your CD
see if it's there. I think there's also an online thing.
If people live in rural you know, Arkansas, then they
don't have a gym near them, they can still do
it that way too, right.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I think it's important to note you don't have to go,
you don't have to train at a starting Shrink gym
to do the program. The program is accessible for for
for anybody that that has access to it. And there's
a failing splot wreck, Yeah, exactly, or you can you
can start on your own. I would say, if that's
a question, there's there's coaches near you give them a call,
right get you know, get some sort of information, get
some hope, getting started, and get started.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
One thing that I find so interesting about this program, Kenny,
is like you have a jack guy working out, and
then right next to them you have a single mother
of two or three.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
And then right next to that person you have an
eighty year old man. Yeah, and you see an eighty year.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Old man put a bar over over his head and
because it is you hope for the world.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Because he's been in the pebble. Don't give up on
their health when they're eighty. Dude, I'm still pushing. I
couldn't lift weights when I started this program. Now it's
all I want to do.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
We got a run.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I want to thank my guest jad Shipley from starting
Strength Gyms, my.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Buddy Jesse Henry from the MAHA movement.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
If people want to follow you on social media, where
can they do that at LinkedIn?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Just type in Jesse Henry LinkedIn, dot com, Fort Slash
and Ford Slash Jesse Henry.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Official and you do consulting for renewables and the chemical
industry and that sustainable chemistry right.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
I love it. Hey, I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all.
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Hi, everybody, Kenny Webster, welcome back from break Stay representedive.
Brian Harrison was just here and we're gonna do something
a little different here for the next twenty or thirty
minutes or so.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
If you're just getting connected to us.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I am filled with in a room with so much
testosterone right now. This is like if Hamburger Helper made testosterone,
this would be testosterone. I have JD Shipley in here,
a brilliant author, personal trainer, strength training coach, owner of
Starting Strength Houston, Starting Strength Katie in the house right now.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
JD.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
How you doing? My brother?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right?
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I have to figure out what it is that I'm
gonna right to fill the brilliant author author's shoes.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But I'll take it when I have a challenge. When
I look you up online, it says JD. Shipley, author,
Did you not know that? No, that's a thing online.
I've written one article for the Starting Strength website. Did
you think I just made that up? I found that
online under awesome And then also here in the building
right now, public speaker, he does TED talks. I often
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refer to you as a right wing environmentalist. But that's
not fair.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
That's not what It's not really fair. I'm non's all nons.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
He's not a right wing environmentalists. That's crazy. He's not
an environmentalist.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Well, I'm gonna accord they.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Jesse Henry, you're my neighbor. And JD.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Shipley, you guys are both actual friends of mine, but
you both do something really interesting, and the three of
us have something in common.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I am a man, you're a man. You're a man.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We all have this crazy radical belief that there's men
and there's women, and that's really it. There isn't seventy
six other things. That's kind of and that shouldn't be
a radical opinion. But because men are unique to women,
we have health needs that differ greatly than women do.
And this isn't one of those radio segments where we're
gonna try to sell you supplements or you know, testosterone
shots or I'm not selling T shots. I don't know
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if you guys are, but if you do need supplements,
go to get the T dot communis promo code w J.
But both of you have a very unique take on health.
We're all involved in the same strength training program. I
always describe it as it's a very elite strength training
program called Starting Strength, created by this guy named Mark Rippletou.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Mark's a little controversial in.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And of his own right, Jad, how do you explain
who Mark Rippletou is to people that don't know?
Speaker 6 (02:39):
Oh, my gosh, h Mark Rivetzo is.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So he's a guy who authored the book Starting Strength.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
It is a distillation of years of experience, and he's
let the data kind of speak for itself, and I
think he carries out he carries he carries that mindset
throughout the rest of you know what he does. He
lets he lets the data speak for itself, and he
will adjust his opinions if the data proofs proofs otherwise.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
During the pandemic, Mark rippitel on a national level because
he created this fitness program that's used in gyms all
over the countries. He was considered to be one of
the original guys to say closing the gyms is a
bad idea. If this is a health epidemic that affects
the immuno compromised, not exercising is one of the worst
things that you could do. At the time, that was radical.
(03:27):
That was a crazy thing to say. Now that's what
everyone thinks, that's conventional wisdom. Most people would agree closing
the gyms during a health epidemic, telling people they couldn't
go to the beach.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
But at the time, you guys at starting strength.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, now even liberals agree with that, But at
the time, you guys got a lot of pushback, didn't
you quite a bit?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
What was that like? Did people criticize you or you
attacked for it? Did it? Did anyone say anything to you?
So we so.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
We closed down because we didn't know what all we
were going.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Through and you were legally allowed to or required to
it first, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Well we did it because we didn't We didn't you know,
we weren't sure what all, what all this was going
to be. Then you know, quickly, fairly quickly, we realized
that you know, there was more. There's just more going,
you know, going on that that that that closing didn't
didn't make sense. And so we opened up a couple
weeks early and we got we got one message posted
on our door that blamed us for some for for
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that person's uncle dying.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So you guys, so you guys close opening your gym
caused somebody to die retroactively.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
That's amazing. How did that? How's that even possible? I
don't know, But now.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Nobody disagrees with that. Look I have liberal Democrat friends
who look back on it. They're like, yeah, if only
we knew now what then what we know now is like, well,
we did kind of know.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Anyway, I digress. This isn't about that. Jesse.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You're interesting too, because five or ten years ago you
wouldn't have been considered conservative or right wing or anything.
But because of Bobby Kennedy Junior, because of the Maha movement,
which a lot of moms and parents and you know,
people that ten years ago, like Elon Musk, would have
been considered a liberal, now I'll find themselves on the
political right.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
But it's not even political right.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's just the idea that you don't want chemicals in
your food and drugs that are harmful that shouldn't be
political at all.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Nothing about what Bobby Kennedy's doing is political. Now. I
get how people that are concerned with vaccines are concerned
about what Bobby Kennedy's doing.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
But if you look at what he's doing in.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Food and agriculture and the chemical sector and the pharma sector,
most notably reducing the amount of chemical and toxic exposure
on everyday goods and items, you can't argue that that's
a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And this was a liberal talking point I think five
or ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
All Right, I agree with most of what you're saying,
but I've never actually heard of anybody who died from
microplastics in their testicles.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Explain, please, So I don't think.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
The microplastics in your testicles might not kill you, but
they're definitely going to disrupt your endocrine system, your brain chemistry,
and your gut biome.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Explain how it affects your brain chemistry. Is what is
plastic in my junk doing to affect my brain?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
So, by and large, one of the things that's destroying
our planet right now is chemical warfare, and it's a
war that's happening in silence. Most people don't really understand
that this war is happening. And so what's happening is
we're getting exposed to all these synthetic ingredients, and one
of the most common synthetic ingredients is plastics, and plastics
have been shown to disrupt your endocrine system. There's cancer
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causing agents in there, there's neurotoxins, there's a lot of
chemistry and plastic. So it's not as simple as just
saying plastic is good for the world or bad for
the world. We wouldn't survive as a species if it
wasn't for plastic. Think about the base of Maslow's hierarchy
of needs.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And what am I consuming that might cause the plastic
ten up in my body?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
So inside every plastic bottle of water, there's at least this.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Bottle of water that I'm drinking from right now. What
as he's drinking right unbelievable. Why didn't you say something?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
Apparently at least two hundred and fifty thousand microplastics, some
people who calculate nanoplastics say it's much much, much higher
than that, but I've lost count at this point.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
A right Jesse, you moved to at the beginning of
the summer so you could take a U so you
could do consulting work in the energy industry.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
To spare people a long winded story. And you were
my neighbor. You live across the hall.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You were only going to be here for a few months,
and you and I started hanging out at some point.
We had a lot in common politically, lifestyle wise, all that.
You know, not gay, I guess you know, played platonic neighbor,
good guy. No, there's anything wrong with the gays. I
just you know, Jesse and I dated similar women, you know,
lived as similarly. And I said to you, what kind
of numbers are you putting up? You're six foot five,
You're in amazing shape. And I was no offense, Yep, I was.
(07:33):
I was a little underwhelmed by the kind of numbers
you were putting up in the gym, for sure. And
I said to you, if you started taking JD. Shipley's
strength training program starting strength here in Houston also and Katie,
it was going to transform you.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Didn't do that.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
It ten xt anything that I could have assumed to
be beneficial for me. Now keep in mind, I spent
about what you know, two years of what I would
spend at Planet Fitness in one month of Starting Strength.
But I was lifting the same weight for ten years,
and I was doing everything the hard way. I was
working out six days a week, I was working out
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super sets, I was really stressing my body. When I
came to Starting Strength, they really flipped the model on
its head. So it's three days a week. It's strength training,
it's not weightlifting. So it's really broke the paradigm for me.
And over the past five weeks, I've been able to
hit numbers that I thought were imaginary.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Jad, can you explain that? What's the diffget strength training
and weightlifting?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
So I will reclassify the way the word weightlifting is
as exercise, So strength training.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Is is the accumulator.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
You're you're pursuing a physical adaptation, right, You're you're pursuing
a particular goal, So everything is oriented around that goal, right,
And so for strength training, we are we are training
for the increase in strength, So everything is geared towards that.
And the reason that we do that is because being
stronger makes everything else that you do a little bit better.
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It makes conditioning it easier, it makes it makes daily
life year. It makes you know, uh, you know, the
for the for the six year old grandma who wants
to get down on the floor and with their kids,
and it makes it easier for her to do that
and then get back up again and may and as
just as much as as it makes it easier for
the for the seventeen year old running back to uh
to hit the line you know harder, right, it just
(09:17):
makes performance, daily performance, a whole lot easier.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
When people get older, they always have this idea, this uh,
you know, common sense to tell you you're not supposed to
lift weights when you're old.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
But that's the opposite of all.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
That is, that is exactly the opposite is actually the
people who are who are older, who have lost muscle mass,
who've lost bone density, who lost the uh, you know,
certain physical capability, who need it more than anything else, right,
you know, the you can you can make the argument
that youth is wasted on the young, right, And so
it's it's as you get older, you realize what you
you know, what you don't have anymore. And so those
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are the ones that those are the people that benefit
even more from from.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Strength training, I will tell you, and I've made this
point before about starting Strength DRIM that it changed my
life that I started. I just coincidentally started on this
program at a time when I was dealing with some
other thing in my life that was causing me problems,
and that just you know, I don't believe in coincidences,
and I think God put me in this program right
when I needed to be in it, and it just
changed me mentally, physically, on a molecular level. I'm going
(10:14):
to tell that story when I get back, and I
want to hear Jesse's story about how JD's program and
just a matter of a couple of months changed his life.
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(11:11):
Henry is here from the MAHA Movement. J D Shipley
is here right now from Starting Strength Houston.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
And JD.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I know I've asked you this story before, but at
some point and just if you could give us the
cliff now, it's real quick. For those that are new,
who are you? What is Starting Strength? What is it exactly?
To those people in the Houston area or other there's
other people around the country that have a Starting Strength
gym in their city.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
They might not even know it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Who am I?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I'm just some some random guy from Spring, Texas that
opened a couple of a couple Starting Strength gyms in
Houston and looking to open more. My mission is to
help people get stronger, leave better lives by by getting stronger.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And what is Starting Strength?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Starting strength is a strength training method that is the simplest,
most effective method that that that that you can use
to to get strong.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And that's really it. It's about data.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
This guy, Mark Rippeto figured out get rid of all
the shortcuts when you see videos on the internet of
women doing aerobics with a bungee cord or people wearing
moon boots or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
That stuff silly. It doesn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
If you want to actually get stronger using data, using
analytics about your body type, how tall you are, how
strong you are, here's the fastest way to get your
numbers up. And I didn't lift weights at all before
I started taking your program three years ago. Now it's
like a drug addiction for me. I have to do
it every week. Why do you think that.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Is Huh, that is a good question. Dopamine Jesse, Yeah,
dopamine rush Man. It's a playground.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I it's it's like it's like you're you're tapping into
something and you're and you're you're, you're you're getting off
in a new way. And I think men who look
at the gym as a playground in someplace that they
want to go and they want to be those are
the people that'll stay fit forever.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Part of what's interesting about the program is that there
is no gimmick. The gimmick is that there's no gimmick,
and that's kind of hard to explain to people until
they do it. Is like no look, this actually works. Oh,
it's just lifting weights. Well, it's not just lifting weights.
Most people that lift weights are doing it the wrong way.
Can you elaborate on that a little?
Speaker 6 (13:13):
I think most people, most people chase the pump, or
they will chase body part splits, and they'll they'll.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Chase the pump.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
So if you do, if you do enough enough work.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
On a on like you know, with a particular lift,
your bodies will flush with with blood and you know
you'll you'll feel you'll feel a pump. Right, you'll feel good. Yeah,
and and that's all. That's all well and good. But
it but it's not. It's not an indicator of success, right,
it's good.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Well, this is a little you know, I made a
point there, and I don't know why. Pavlov's dog here.
You just reminded me of something. Forget me, fugg They've
got a little racey here for just a second. Women
have reported that men that are in this program. How
do I explain this become girthier because of I can't
think of a tasteful way to explode. That's true, isn't it.
That's scientifically proven to be true. Men that don't have
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a lot of testosterone. Men that don't work out, men
that are soft all over, tend to be soft in
the places where it matters the most.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Right, And that's.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Awkward because you're worried your daughters might be watching this later,
but they're not.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
No, I mean, I've got I'm so uh yeah, so
when when i've oh god, my wife's my wife's gonna
kill me for saying this. When when I when I
first started the gyms, the gyms were never even a question, right,
I just wanted to see how, you know, I just
wanted to get stronger. And uh and I remember what,
I don't know, it was working out two, three, four
or five months and and and my wife says, yeah,
(14:35):
things are things are better, And I was like.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Dude, I'm never not squatting ever again. I'm gonna go
squad right now.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Actually, well, that just goes to show the the the
best way to increase your testosterone is to lift heavy weights. Yeah,
that's it. There's there's no you don't need a bunch
of TRT. You need to go pick up heavyweights and
do it multiple times a week. And you know it's
not like the TRT hurts. So maybe that's helpful to somebody,
but you don't need it. I didn't do that. I've
people in the program. Most people in the program don't
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do it.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I've known.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I've met a couple of men that have. And that's
that's okay, right, Like, that's not a problem. RFK Junior
does the TRT does RFK.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I believe he does.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
And he's and he.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Is terrified of anything chemical related, and oddly he's okay
with that.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That's actually really good. It is a good point.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
My concern with the TRT thing is that once you're
on a synthetic it's really difficult to get off it
because now your body is reliant on producing that testosterone
through synthetic means as opposed to a Why that's why
I like. I don't take a bunch of supplements. I
like going to the gym. I've worked out for seventeen
years and my weight was the exact same for seventeen
years until I joined this person.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I take supplements. I like creatine, glutamine. I don't even
know what glutamine does, but if I don't get it,
my veins will explode.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
All right, So let's talk about this before we run
out of time here, Jesse. I talked you into taking
the ProTem What did you give us? Just what did
you expect from it? And then what did it actually
turn out to be?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Like?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
You know, I feel like the reason why people don't
succeed in the gym is one of two reasons. They
either aren't they don't have the effort, or they don't
have the guidance. And I was putting in the effort
for many, many years, but I didn't have the guidance.
I didn't have someone standing over me and saying, you
did a good job on your squad this week, We're
going to increase it five or ten pounds next week.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Is scary, that's scary.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
So before yesterday's workout, I psyched myself out for fifteen minutes.
I'm like, I'm gonna go put three hundred and thirty
pounds over my back. Yeah, yeah, scary.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
And here's the end. So that what did you So?
What did you get out of it?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Man, it's not just the amount of weight you lift,
it's the type of person you become on the journey
to lift that.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Type of weight.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I earned the right to be able to squad three
hundred and thirty pounds yesterday or dead lift four hundred
and five pounds yesterday. I earned the right to get
to that platform to do that because I put in
the work over the month. And it wasn't just that
I put in the work. I had to ride my
bike six miles each way every single time.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I did it because you don't have a car here
in Houston, and it's not exactly a good city for
biking around.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
But you did it and that helped too, didn't it?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
It did?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It doesn't hurtle. Bit of a cardio doesn't hurt you.
Guys have a bike in the gym. A little bit
of cardio is technically part of it.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Right, It's actually part of the program later later on,
as it as it evolves.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
So let's talk about this then.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
A part of men's health is mental health, and I
think that it's it's a cycle. You get better in
better physical shape, your mental health improoves. Your mental health improoves,
you feel like working out more. You feel like working
out more, you look better, you look better, your mental
health improofs. That's a part of this that you don't
really know how to explain to people until they try it. Right,
It's exactly right.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, did it do that to you?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Absolutely? Right? So I started. I started because I wanted
to see how strong I could get. Right.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It was It wasn't it wasn't an aesthetic thing. It
was more of a capability thing. But it was it
was very much a a maybe a selfish or not
an altruistic you know, altruistic goal. I just you know,
it was something that I wanted to do for me, right,
there was so I guess what I'm saying is there
was some vanity in there, right, And and the further
(17:57):
along I got into it, right, the stronger, the stronger
I got, the more the more capable I was, the
more sure of myself I was, the the the just
the more and more grounded, I guess, you know, you
can say so I was, I you know I could
We're lifting heavy before was was scary, right, you know,
going into it. At some point it flipped and and
lifting heavy was just a standard thing that I.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
That I did.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
It's become normalized exactly, and so it's just it becomes
par for the course and right, So the bodies of
body is a system, right, so the mental health is
a is a is a system all in of itself
and the physical sides a system all in of itself.
But but like those systems, they play into each other,
so you don't get improvement in one without the improvement
in in in the other.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Jesse, you been in the program for a little more
than a month at this point. Yeah, So it's hard
sometimes to see your mental health change unless you look
back at where you were two or three years ago.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Like I was in a divorce when I started this program.
But do you see it?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I do?
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I feel it, and and I think one thing to
note for men out there is is after you finish
a workout, you always feel better mentally and emotionally, and
emotions are just energy and motion, right, And so if
you're a man that's sitting out there and you haven't
hit the gym in a while, this isn't a means
to shame you. This is a means to say, hey,
if you're not in a good mental and emotional place,
try going to the gym, Try getting a sweat, and
(19:15):
try pushing yourself a little further. Because the best version
of all of us is a version of us that's stronger.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
One of our listeners on social media right now, watching
us from the Roman Empire There's a guy named Artemis
and he says big legs, not necessarily calves, quads make testosterone.
I don't know if he's right or wrong. Is there
what do you guys think about that? I believe that's true.
The legs are the biggest muscle.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
If you make the if you make if you make
the muscle growth right, muscles, muscles are more than more
than just then just movers of bone.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Right there, there is a there is a gland effect
like they will help. They will help the.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Rest of the rest of the systems produce, produce what
you know, produce what the body needs.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Jesse, you move away from Houston on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
That will be your end of your little experiment with
Starting Strength. I know you're going off to Canada and
that's terrible. I don't know are even weightlifting even legal
in Canada. I don't think it is.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Depends if we make it the fifty first state of mind.
It might be that joke doesn't go over well.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
You ever see, if you're going to travel around, there's
Starting Strength at Florida where you live. You know, do
you see yourself doing this program?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Starting Strength in Miami is very, very very far south.
I definitely see myself continuing with squat, bench, deadlift press
as the main functions of working out and everything else
will be ancillary.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I love it, man, JD. You you know you've got
these two gyms in Houston. They're very popular. The one
in Houston's almost only sold out. The one in Katie,
I'm told as a little more space, which to our listeners.
We have a lot of listeners out in Katie that
might they might actually be able to take advantage of that.
If people want to try this program, and I got
to tell you, and when I say this changed my life,
I mean it changed my life. Well, it's the best.
(20:45):
It's the cheapest way to get one on one fitness training.
It's the cheapest way to transform yourself. It's the easiest
way to become stronger. If I'm not selling this, well,
I think the best thing people could do is just
come in and try it.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
How do they do that?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
You know, so what I would say if you're in Houston, obviously,
you know if you google Starting Strength, you'll find that
you'll find the gyms. But you've you're syndicated across as
across the golf coast, and we you know we've got locations, uh,
you know, locations across the golf coast.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So wherever you're listening to listeners.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Right, if think google Starting Strength, they'll find a they'll
find a Starting Strength gym in there and you know,
as close to their area as possible.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
And people can take an introductory course for free.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That's still a thing on anybody's website. You just go
to any of the starting Google or whatever search engine.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I'm not trying to promote Google, whatever search engine you
prefer to use. Dug yeah, duc dot Goh yeah, problems
with that one too. I'm gonna ask Jeeves guy.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
That's me.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm a big guy, but I'll that being said, all
you search for the words starting Strength in your CD
see if it's there. I think there's also an online thing.
If people live in rural you know, Arkansas, then they
don't have a gym near them, they can still do
it that way too, right.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I think it's important to note you don't have to go,
you don't have to train at a starting Shrink gym
to do the program. The program is accessible for for
for anybody that that has access to it. And there's
a failing splot wreck, Yeah, exactly, or you can you
can start on your own. I would say, if that's
a question, there's there's coaches near you give them a call,
right get you know, get some sort of information, get
some hope, getting started, and get started.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
One thing that I find so interesting about this program, Kenny,
is like you have a jack guy working out, and
then right next to them you have a single mother
of two or three.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
And then right next to that person you have an
eighty year old man. Yeah, and you see an eighty year.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Old man put a bar over over his head and
because it is you hope for the world.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Because he's been in the pebble. Don't give up on
their health when they're eighty. Dude, I'm still pushing. I
couldn't lift weights when I started this program. Now it's
all I want to do.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
We got a run.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I want to thank my guest jad Shipley from starting
Strength Gyms, my.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Buddy Jesse Henry from the MAHA movement.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
If people want to follow you on social media, where
can they do that at LinkedIn?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Just type in Jesse Henry LinkedIn, dot com, Fort Slash
and Ford Slash Jesse Henry.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Official and you do consulting for renewables and the chemical
industry and that sustainable chemistry right.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
I love it. Hey, I'm Kenny Webster. I love you all.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
We'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning for more
of what you bought a radio for on radio stations
all over the good part of the country. Don't forget
this right here, Operation Comedy Therapy October fifth, Bad Astronaut
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Radio Legend, plus some other special guests.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We'll be back. Guys, have a great day. Thanks so
much for watching and listening.
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To the government to kiss your ass when you listen
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