Muscle & Fitness is in Los Angeles for WrestleMania week, the place we bought to meet up with one of many fittest girls on the professional wrestling circuit, the ripped Rhea Ripley, forward of her championship conflict with Charlotte Flair on Saturday evening. We quickly realized that changing into one of the highly effective and dominant forces in WWE is about lifting “all the heavy stuff.”
Forget calorie counting! Even merely grabbing a cup of espresso is difficult throughout WrestleMania week. “To be completely honest, this is my first coffee of the day,“ says Ripley, who was up early to give her time to journalists like myself, when all the Australian powerhouse really wants to do is prepare for the biggest match of her life. “I had a little bit of fruit beforehand, but that’s probably the only thing I’m gonna have until, I wanna say, maybe like 3 o’clock. So, it’s mayhem always around Mania season. We don’t really get a chance to breathe or stop, but it’s all worth it in the long run.”
While making ready for an enormous match throughout WrestleMania week is an unpredictable affair, Ripley understands that the actual exhausting work must be carried out within the weeks and months earlier than professional wrestling’s grandest stage of the yr. At WrestleMania 39, Ripley will face her largest nemesis in Charlotte Flair. She is aware of all too properly that Flair took her NXT championship away in 2020 after which bested her for the Raw girls’s championship in 2021. In reality, Ripley has by no means defeated Flair in one-on-one competitors however hopes to alter that in a packed SoFi Stadium.
“I’ve definitely been stepping it up the few weeks before [WrestleMania)]” says Ripley. “I’ve been hitting a lot of PRs in the gym … I really just wanna beat Charlotte Flair. She’s one of the best. She’s a 14-time women’s champion. At the end of the day, like I said on TV, it’s her legacy against my destiny and my destiny is to be the best bloody women here in the WWE, and it’s gonna happen.”
Rhea Ripley Is Driven to Lift More Every Week
Fortunately, in the case of having an excellent exercise associate to maintain her impressed, Ripley’s real-life associate and fellow wrestler; Buddy Matthews helps her to get the job carried out. “I mean, I just try and pick up heavy stuff and put it back down,” says the potential future champ. “I don’t really have a schedule sorta thing. Like, yes, I have my allocated days for certain muscles but sometimes that gets muddled up (due to the demands of a pro wrestling career). This is a very taxing job so you don’t know how you’re gonna feel each and every day, so you just try and go in and do as best as you can but for me, I just try and lift all the heavy stuff! Like, I workout with Buddy Matthews, so, he lifts extremely heavy and I try and keep up with him. It’s pretty much impossible but, you know, I do make him question himself every now and then!”
Rhea Ripley challenges Charlotte Flair for the WWE Smackdown girls’s title on Saturday evening, April 1, at WrestleMania 39. You can reside stream professional wrestling’s largest present of the yr on Peacock within the United States and WWE Network in all places else.
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