About this episode

The hosts discuss family heirlooms, fitness challenges, and various topics related to military life and coaching.

Episode 121. Grant reports from Newport, Rhode Island with a truck full of family heirlooms and a snapped serpentine belt. Jeff checks in from Air University, where the library fire alarm interrupted his midterm and his grandfather Emmett Gatewood may be hiding in the archives. Tres holds down Frisco, Texas and reviews Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. The staff brief features an unpaid battalion, a lobster bake from the new S1, a space domain tasking, the Wednesday pizza buffet, and a chaplain check-in you have to hear to believe. Plus: the Good Idea Cutoff Line (GICOL), broken stair steppers and gym radar at the Naval War College, Clausewitz applied to lifting and fatherhood, the oldest ballpark in America, a Red Sox baserunning debate, and a full coaching segment on bench press pain management. America 250 plate is at the machine shop — pre-buyers ship early. The .75 lb plates are back in stock. The Strength app enters beta next week. Podcast Hosts: Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach. Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Grant Broggi, Jeff Buege, Tres Gottlich

Topics covered

• family heirlooms
• fitness
• military life
• coaching
• gym equipment
• film review

Keywords

• fitness
• heirlooms
• military
• coaching
• gym
• film review

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Air University, The Strength Co., Naval War College

Products: .75 lb plates, Strength app

Books & works: The Odyssey

Places: Newport, Rhode Island, Frisco, Texas

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