Chapter 13 · Ruby Cherie
The Art of Professional Program Design
January 17, 2025
I love that because it really does emphasize that program design isn't something that's just throw shit on a piece of paper to see what sticks. And in so many Facebook groups, there are still so many women asking, is this a good program? And it's got like every single freaking leg exercise that you can be called on one day. A good program for what? And for who? What are you trying to achieve there? Like, who's going to stay in the gym the longest? Many of us don't. I don't think people, and honestly, you've been a student of mine for a long time. You see all the detail that goes in the way I program, how I teach programming. I don't think people, I don't think other coaches who haven't been through Muscle Nerds training, I don't think they understand, when I talk about program design, my program design and their program design, We're not talking about the same thing. Like, cause a lot of guys just go to bodybuilding.com and pull a fucking program out. I'm sitting here with a calculator and an abacus and I've got scientific NASA astronaut calculations. And when I write a program, it's a, it's a really fucking involved deal. It's not just like throwing shit at the wall and that's what program design should be. So I think people have a misconception about what proper program design is. And they think it's like this, that I could write a program in like five minutes. I can write a word. if you're gonna you you want to go work out with me you want me to write a workout in five minutes i can do i can write the workout now if you go is completely different people underestimate like people underestimate what goes into good preaching and i would say that anyone who's been through muscle nerds probably is like me and that we overthink every single little thing i overthink every single program that i do because of you like i never overthought my programming until muscle nerds now it's overthinking everything because there is art to the way that it all works like you don't need to do more in the gym to see results you just need better programming and if you look at most people that have the body that you want they're stronger than you like strength really is the mother variable sorry i had to take that from you but it really is like i think so it really is so true get strong and you'll eventually see the results you want but we definitely can't forget like the body fat part of this we won't we won't we won't but i'm gonna go into after you finish your little last on the training yeah just that last kind of just to tie that one off is you'll talk to a lot of people that maybe they got in the industry for the wrong reasons they go well it doesn't really matter you just do a program everything works just do a standard hypertrophy program i'm like okay but my programming will work much faster than that and people don't pay me to just, people don't pay me to write them a workout. They write me to, they pay me to write a specific training program for a specific goal and they want to have an experience or else people wouldn't pay me the money that they pay me. Like you and I and any accomplished long-term muscle nurse coach, if you go into a fitness first, you go into good life, go into these gyms, those coaches are not the same as the people that are in our network. They do not think the same. They don't write the same. They don't have the same knowledge. Do not associate us with those people because those they do not care and they don't have the you will not have the experience with them that you have with muscle nerds coaches. 100% because we understand that we are professionals at program design and that people are paying us money to be professional and write something that's truly bespoke for them to drive them to the goals they want. So we're not monkey shitting on our hands thrown at the wall. Every single thing that we've put on that program is there for a highly specific purpose. It's going to feed into the next phase, the next phase, the next phase, the next phase, on and on and on. So it like I don think people under I can reinforce that anymore because people do not understand the difference between somebody is truly professional elite level at program design versus the other 99 percent of coaches in the world Yeah And this is kind of where it like if you have a specific training goal then we are going to program for it If you don then we just going to program you with the best hypertrophy program that we have. That is going to get you the results. And if you follow that and you train close enough to failure and you know how to push yourself, you're going to get the physique results that you want, have a specific goal. Then that takes the next level of programming. And that's where I'm going to overdrive.