"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Eat up for Thanksgiving

EFFORT

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I was talking to one of the guys i train in person the other day and he was talking about going home for thanksgiving and how he feels bad because he won't be able to eat any of the food his family makes because of his bodybuilding diet. Then later that day i got phone calls from other guys i train asking about the diet rules for thanksgiving. I couldn't help but laugh everytime, i guess because i thought the rules were assumed.


Thanksgiving Diet rules= EAT EVERYTHING YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON (and yes pie, ice cream, cakes, brownies, cookies are all aloud!)
 

"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.

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I seriously don't understand the rationale of "cheat days". If you make yourself an excuse to cheat one day isn't it just as easy to make them for any other?

Not me. There will be plenty enough with meats, cheesy goodness and veggies to keep me full as fvck. I don't need cakes and pies and sugary sh!t to make my Turkey Day memorable.
 

Being_the_Don

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EFFORT said:
I was talking to one of the guys i train in person the other day and he was talking about going home for thanksgiving and how he feels bad because he won't be able to eat any of the food his family makes because of his bodybuilding diet. Then later that day i got phone calls from other guys i train asking about the diet rules for thanksgiving. I couldn't help but laugh everytime, i guess because i thought the rules were assumed.


Thanksgiving Diet rules= EAT EVERYTHING YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON (and yes pie, ice cream, cakes, brownies, cookies are all aloud!)
But how much of the carbs to eat? I plan on hitting the gym first thing tomorrrow morning. I had a light supper tonight and won't be eating much before I head to the gym tomorrow morning. Since you know I don't bulk, I worry about the carbs I'll be eating tomorrow. I figure that a good workout pre dinner will help me out. Eat all the sweets, though? :)
 

"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.

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Master Bates

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If you do cardio only once or twice a day, should you do cardio the day of (before eating), or the day after a big thanksgiving feast?
 

mrRuckus

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KarmaSutra said:
If you make yourself an excuse to cheat one day isn't it just as easy to make them for any other?
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I do believe that is a slippery slope logical fallacy.
 

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I'm unsure as to why your thanksgiving is even an issue? I wouldn't change my gym patterns or even give it a second thought.

The prospect of "ensuring you get in a workout the morning after/workout hard that week" is kind of silly. The benefits from a single workout mean next to nothing in the grand scheme of things...

Besides, we should all be eating every single day like it's thanksgiving :) lots of meat, good portion of fats, decent amount of carbs, and very little sugars.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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effort, you are a ****ing moron! you never post any information about yourself as you are probably just a small weak piece of ****...no pictures or anything! All you do is steal peoples ideas and give people **** diet information!
 

jahidi

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so using information about diet and exercise that works, even somebody else came up with it before, is stealing ideas and is a bad thing? this is a lifestyle not a research paper.
 

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i know, but I found it rather amusing after just reading the same article on Iron Addicts a few hours ago
 

wolf116

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That's a good thing, this site needs an injection of IronAddict.

Of cause EFFORT will have similar advice, he was trained by him.
 
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