"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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Effective, Mass Producing Chest Excercises Without the Gym?

Adam

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While I scrounge my money together to afford the deposit on a gym subscription so that I can begin the Rippletoe method in earnest, I'm looking for a good mass building excersise for my chest.

I have 40Kgs of weight in the form of 2 dumbells with weights which is ok for most of the isolation excercises I perform (just combine Rows with pullups, one after the other), I'm having some troubles with finding a good way of training said chest, for mass and strength I might add.

I've tried weighted, thumb crossed pressups and it worked reasonably well, but mounting the weight on my back is a big inconveinience, the same is true for weighted dips. I've found widening my grip on the dips makes things harder, but still too easy to perform on both a 5*5 and an 8*3 basis.

Any suggestions?

Cheers
 

"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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MrS

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Divebomber pushups.
Pushups with your feet high up on something.
Pushups between 3 chairs, one for your two arms, one for your feet.

The deeper and the wider you place your palms the more chest involvement.
 

Quagmire911

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Put the weights in a backpack, do weighted dips/chinups/one-legged squats...
 
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