"The Kiss of Death Mistake"

You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?

Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.

One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.

Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Do you guys mix in push ups with bench press?

Eternal_water

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On different days I mean.

My gym has finally just fixed its bench press machine so I can go at it again.
My question is would doing several sets of push ups or push ups till failiure for muscle stamina on a different day from gym chest day, help increase the effectivness of the bench press?

Say If I was to do 2 or 3 sets of push ups to failure on a Tuesday and do my gym chest day on a Friday, would that help in the overall muscle gaining picture?

My personal record for good form consecutive push ups is 75 and I want to beat it, but not at the expense of building chest muscle and most articles say that push ups are useless in this.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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I do close stance pushups every other day to improve triceps. I have definitely seen improvement in dips, rope pushdowns, overhead extensions, etc. Do them and you'll see steady improvement. Do them consistently though. I started with just 2x20. I'm at 20x7. Do fewer reps to perfect form, not to failure every time.
 

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Eternal_water said:
My personal record for good form consecutive push ups is 75 and I want to beat it,
I literally just beat it!! My record is now 77 :rockon:
 

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If your Bench press starts going down, cut back on push-ups. If your bench starts going up, keep doing em'.
 

"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.

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I like to superset pushups with either seated rows or high rows. So I do 10 reps on the row machine, drop down for 10 pushups, 10 more rows, etc, no rest at all. I either do 1 set of 40 (each) or two sets of 30. It's how I finish my workout.
 
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