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Chapter 2 · Ruby Cherie

The Reality of General Population Strength

January 17, 2025

And, and I apologize for anybody at 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 like somewhat capable and for whatever reason the zombie apocalypse or whatever the fuck we're training for like you some some of these people are so weak that they blow their back out sneezing it's like come on man so it's like and i think a lot of people will look at you and they'll say you know especially like your your lifts your big competition list if you've done which is a completely mind blowing weight for your body weight. Like if you tell people when I'm lecturing in front of people and I tell people how your body weight to deadlift ratio, they don't believe me. I have to show them videos of you pulling what you're pulling. You pulling one hundred eighty five hundred ninety on your deadlift because they don't believe me. And I'm like, no, this is true. Because and especially for gym pop. Like if you talk to my mom if I tried to tell my mom about that lift and I have to change it into pounds because she American She freedom She wouldn believe me She would think that that only something you see on like the Avengers the Incredible Hulk And then, you know what the next statement my mom would say, because my mom would be the I would consider her like the pinnacle. If you had Wikipedia general population female, you'd see a picture of my mom there. It's like she would look at that and be like, I don't want to get that strong. like i know i know so like a lot of your female clients that look at you and be like well i don't want to be that i don't want to go that far trust as coaches we know you don't but you're not gonna get there overnight no the gap is so far you have no idea how far it is at my biggest when i was two i was 120 324 kilos and i was still like between 15 and 19 body fat i was huge people would come man to train with me and I'm like, I don't want to do what you do. I'm like, I know. And these would be guys who could could barely squat their body weight. And I'm like, bro, I squat 700 pounds. Like I know I squat 318 kilos. Like, I know you don't want to do that. I'm not trying to get you to do that. But right now, my grandmother is stronger than you and she's dead. I'm just trying to get you a little bit stronger. Okay.