"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.
Can Someone breakdown the deadlift for me
- Thread starter Zhen
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"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Zhen
Don Juan
don't give me this stop being a pvssy be a man bullsht. it's called common sense.
TheSplat
Master Don Juan
for 1?Originally posted by TheSplat
How much do you guys deadlift? I pulled 425 yesterday.
You might be doing too many reps though. Maybe instead of 3 sets of 8, try 3-4 sets of 3-5?
You're not trying to train your back to failure, after all. We sort of need it.
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Actually, weightlifting should eventually be comfortable. Being strong makes doing lesser things more comfortable.Originally posted by RaWBLooD
if you think weightlifting is supposed to be comfortable, then you are looking for comfort in the wrong place, go get a massage or something.
Momentary discomfort for long-term comfort. This is in movement alone. You also have social comfort and health-comfort from the appearance and lower body-fat and knowledge of your greater strength to move the world.
Also, feeling either higher plateaus of tension or of fatigue each have their own associated psychophysiological comforts... more like thrills I guess, associated with them.
If you're always uncomfortable weightlifting, always feeling pain, always feeling sore, then something is wrong, and you need to change what you're doing.
Health is the #1 goal in weightlifting, not looks guys. If looks are your priority, reevaluate your life.