Category: Articles

  • The Starting Strength Gyms Franchise: What’s Traditional vs What’s Revolutionary?

    By Mandy MillerPublished: January 6, 2025 Anyone that has ever thought about starting a new franchise concept has done so because they have at least one of these things: a strong financial business that’s easily replicatable, a novel concept that doesn’t exist yet in the franchise world, investors already trying to expand into new cities,…

  • How I Evaluate The Starting Strength Franchise Model – As a Lifting Postpartum Mom of 2

    By Mandy MillerPublished: December 26, 2025 I played tennis my entire life and I was a gymnast, neither of which introduced me to barbell lifting before I turned 30. I can run suicides along tennis court lines until I puke, I can throw a 20lb medicine ball over my shoulder to mimic a backhand, I…

  • The Press – A long term programming progression

    Nick Delgadillo, SSC In Episode 3 of the Stronger is Better Podcast, I detailed the how and why of programming the press for long term progression. People commonly make mistakes in the press from a programming standpoint because they don’t consider that the press requires heavy practice and doesn’t generally behave like the other basic…