Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Power Cleans. It will take you some time to learn the exercise however. But certainly worth effort. Power Cleans are your best tool to increase power, the ability to explode/accelerate.jtrain 289 said:
if i trained sprints i could probably get it down.Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
Calves have almost nothing to do with 40 yard dash times, don't give advice if you don't know what you're talking about. Sprinting (and the vertical jump) is all about the posterior chain, especially the hamstrings. Do a lot of squatting, deadlifting, glute ham raises, pull throughs, reverse hypers if possible, and hip mobility/flexibility drills. Cleans are an excellent lift for explosiveness as well, but doing deep, dynamic effort squats will also make you explosive, there is nothing supernatural about olympic lifts, so don't freak out if you have a hard time learning them. Here is a good article:blinkwatt said: