"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
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.
Back in the gym.. for good this time!
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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
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.
Pullups: bodyweight x 6 x 6
Dumbell Skulls:: 12.5 kg x 10 x 10
I have decided to cut up for a few weeks before xmas, so I will try to keep adding to the bar but just change my diet to cut massively down on the carbs and add in a run every night! I want to be lose some blubber by christmas without loosing any muscule, it should be easy because I am naturally thin
Shoulder press dumbells: 22.5 kg x 5 x 5 x 5
Incline Curls: 15kg x 8 x 8 x 8
Friday:
Pullups wides grip x 8 x 5 x 5 (**** at these)
Decline Bench: 80 kg x 10, 85kg x 6 90 kg x 3
Dumbell skulls 15kg x 7 x 7 x 7
Ok its official, Alcohol is bad for you. I have went on 4 benders in the last week over the festive period. I actually have maintained my strength as much as possible as I did a few workouts to keep up with things. But fuk it, it was christmas
I actually lost half a stone, and I think it was nearly all fat due to the strength maintenance.
Todays workout: Shoulders
Sitting down Dumbell Press:
22.5 kg Right hand x 6 Left hand x 5
23.5kg right hand x 5 left hand x 4
Military Press: 45 kg x 8
55kg x 1
Lateral Raises: 10 kg x 6 x 6
Front Raises: 10 kg x 6 x 6
Dumbell skulls: 10kg x 12 x 12
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Pullups wide-grip: bodyweight x 10 +10kg x 4, + 5kg x 5
Bent over dumbell rows: 25kg x 12, 30kg x 12, 35 kg x 8 (right arm and left arm where the same for all sets)
Incline Bicep Curls: 15kg x 10, x 10
I think I am going to spend the next few weeks trying to shed as much bodyfat as possible while maintaining muscle. I have always concentrated on getting big when working out and that combined with my party lifestyle, so although I have only had minimal success at that I think I need to go for a more athlethic look, I am not going to be Hulk Hogan and I need to realise that. So time to get cut up and look the part, well for a few weeks anyway