"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Best brand of creatine?

beastmaster79

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what is the best brand of creatine. I've heard german creatine is the best.


what about monohydrate vs. ethyl ester?
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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There are huge inter-individual variations between people's metabolisms. WHat works for me won't work for you...so, in there's really no such thing as the "best one". The best one is the one that works the best for you.

I personally don't take creatine unless its a part of pre-WO supplements. Lotsa good pre-WO supplements out there, like Armageddon (by chemstar), NO3 Overload (CMI), NO explode (BSN), Superpump 250, etc.
 

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Hmmm...been a while since I've used that stuff. I think I used the stuff by ProLab once. Seemed to go ok, mixed up decent enough.
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

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.

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Is it possible to find any good creatine without turning to the internet?
 

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Master Bates said:
Is it possible to find any good creatine without turning to the internet?
you mean at a GNC or whatever?

yeah but be prepared to pay big bucks.
 

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I've been through this topic before, but i'll say it again.

The BEST as far as purity and Monohydrate goes, is Creapure creatine. Prolab uses it, Universal, ON, and many other companies use their creatine.
As far as all of the others, their main thing is how they enter the body and are utilized. If you look at creatine AKG, and then pick up an exercise phys book and look at the Krebs cycle, you'll notice Alpha Keto Glutarate.
The Krebs cycle is a series of reactions which occurs in the mitochondria and results in the formation of ATP. So Creatine AKG is creatine bonded with AKG.

Right now on the market there are probably 6-7 different forms. All being something bonded with creatine for better transport.

Which one should you take? That's still in the air, and there is no solid answer. I use creatine AKG right now. I have also used Creapure before when that's all there was.
 

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Fuglydude said:
There are huge inter-individual variations between people's metabolisms. WHat works for me won't work for you...so, in there's really no such thing as the "best one". The best one is the one that works the best for you.

I personally don't take creatine unless its a part of pre-WO supplements. Lotsa good pre-WO supplements out there, like Armageddon (by chemstar), NO3 Overload (CMI), NO explode (BSN), Superpump 250, etc.
Not true anymore with the statement on what works for you wont work for me on creatine. The reason this used to be the case was because creatine (plain stuff) wasn't getting transported in the body for some. Now with the new forms out, pretty much no one has a problem, so it should work for all. How much will it work is another topic. But it works, plain and simple.
 

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Good point Omen, I've never taken creatine consistently enough to feel a difference...like I said I just take it when I use pre-WO stuff. I don't know too much about how the chemical modifications to creatine help with transport, etc, as well the true efficacy of the other stuff in many of the formulas that are supposed to potentiate the insulin response.

I'm guessing I'm one of those guys who needs A LOT to feel a significant difference!
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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