Chapter 15 · Ruby Cherie
Defining Performance for the General Population
January 10, 2025
Yeah. Well, and that's where I'm going to I will differ a little bit. It just, man, because I do, I do agree with that. But it's like, you also have to look at people who don't give a shit about performance in the gym because that can be an issue too, right? But so sometimes you have to go through a different angle. You're like, okay, so, because here's, I'll give you a story. Like when, when we first bought our, our gym and we went in and we took it over from the previous owner and like, yeah, like people will come to our gym. They initially, it's weird because now five years later, we're seeing a really big difference and culture, but it took five years to build that momentum. And I came in, I'm like, okay, so we have, we do have group classes because it's like one coach with like five to six people. So they're small group classes. So there's still a lot of like one-on-one stuff. And I wrote all these beautiful, beautiful periodized programs, you know, beautiful, same stuff I would write for people, personal training and online and all that. And people were getting crazy strong. We had one guy when we tested him he pulled he had a 75 kilo deadlift and 12 weeks later He pulled 150 and I like freaking out i high fiving him and he looks at me and he goes i don really care about that shit i like you just put 75 kilos on your deadlift in 12 weeks and you don't care he goes no i just want to lose some weight and i went okay sometimes so if we say like we want to drive performance sometimes we also need to clarify what performance means and so for people like that performance may be well more profit, more, more energy, more, better sleep, better sex, right? Getting up and downstairs easier. So performance can be any number of things. Doesn't, doesn't necessarily have to be like having PRS on your list, which I think you should. But the unfortunate, the unfortunate fact is some people just don't even give a shit about that, which I think is sad. And we should, we should like, because the whole point of lifting weights is to put muscle on or to retain muscle and to get stronger. Like that's the goal. It's not to lose weight. It's to put on more muscle and it's to get stronger. Like that's what you should do. And, and I apologize for anybody gym pop here, but people, the general population out there, they're pathetically weak, pathetically weak. They are pathetically weak. And they, I don't, I think they don't understand, they just don't understand that. Like, I'll go in and guys will go, I don't want to be as strong as you, I don't want to be as big as you. And I'm like, I know, because you won't train as hard as I do. And you won't stay on the diet. Like, I know you don't want to be at the level I'm at. But you're so fucking far away from that. You don't have to worry about it. Like I've been trading for over 35 years, like, you got a long way to go to get to that level. But I'm trying to get you out of this level of like, being incredibly incapable of doing anything strong, and try to make you somewhat capable, right?