"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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Cutting question (weightlift??yes or no??)

mrRuckus

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Originally posted by Warboss Alex
Yeah, sure, you're 300lbs and you're gonna sprint HIIT style? Good luck.

BCAA has good anti-catabolic qualities but there's the question or whether it jacks insulin levels, thus making it fat sparing as well as protein sparing.

Guys, why are you making such a pig's ear of this? Dropping bodyfat is so much easier than building muscle, it's simply a case of watching your diet and doing more cardio.

  • - Add the cardio of your choice. (or do more/longer sessions)
    - Use a carb cutoff.
    - Drink green tea (or take the pills).
    - Get your EFAs in (fish oil, flax oil, omega3 pills)
    - Stick to lean proteins after your carb cutoff (chicken, tuna, etc) and lean protein throughout the day too.
    - Be more meticulous about food choices in general, i.e. less junk and cheat meals.
    - Be more meticulous about food combinations (pro/fat pro/carb) if this affects you.
    - Drop or minimise dairy products if you're sensitive to them.
    - Lift as you always would, i.e. keep trying to progress.
    - Do not curb calories or carbs to keep you operating at anything less than peak efficiency.

And quite frankly, you should be doing all of those anyway to avoid getting fat in the first place.
Testimonial to the Warboss way:

I've done all these things for the past 3-4 months, have no visible fat gain, do no cardio outside of softball (and we know most of softball/baseball is standing around waiting for something to happen) and i've jumped from 162 to 180 lbs and my lifts have increased pretty well
I only just started the green tea about 2 weeks ago too.
 

"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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mrRuckus:

have you measured your % bodyfat?
 

Warboss Alex

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Originally posted by mrRuckus
Testimonial to the Warboss way:

I've done all these things for the past 3-4 months, have no visible fat gain, do no cardio outside of softball (and we know most of softball/baseball is standing around waiting for something to happen) and i've jumped from 162 to 180 lbs and my lifts have increased pretty well
I only just started the green tea about 2 weeks ago too.
Congratulations mate; 3-4 months is nothing, give it a year of consistency like this and you should be well pleased with the results. Keep it up. :)
 
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