"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 prefer sit ups or cruches?

"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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MrS

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Happy birthday, Brian.

They're different exercises, I do them with different variations so can't compare.
Nothing like a few huyndred situps, though.
 

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I don't really like either. The "super-crunch" is ok, where you start from the upright crunch motion, flex, and gradually go down slow as possible.

Martial arts classes I've been in have you yell your count while you go up during regular crunches, which helps to hit the abs harder.
 

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I prefer sitsup, but only if I do these things:

Don't go to high when doing situps. You'll know you're too high when you stop feeling the tension in your abs. Also, keep your back straight. To do this, try to make your shoulder touch the floor first when you come down, your lower back should touch last if its gonna touch at all.
 

"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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I do a mixture of scrunches (legs down, legs up for lower abs, then cross overs), and also those exercises where you bend your knees, push them out a bit, and then sit up so that your finger tips touch your knees.

To get definition you really need to burn off that tummy fat. I'm not there yet.
 

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does anyone here have a six pack? and if so how long did it take and how many crunches/ situps do you do?
 

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Not many, it's all about bodyfat.
 

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The thing is most of the guys here probably rely on other more compound weight lifts to work their abs. Squats work a lot including legs & abs. Dips work a LOT of your upper body + abs. Pull ups, Pull up curls. You just have to use your abs during other lifts its where a lot of your power & stability comes from anyway.
 
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