You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
it is, i like to spend a good 1 hour vaporizing and watching motivational videos before im ready to go lift hardTheStig said:Don't tell me your vaporizer is your pre workout haha
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
[S]alvatore said:HIT is good for trainees that use steroids, for a natural not so much. Even if you were to train beyond failure, your muscle is ready to be hit again in 48 hours. It's your nervous system that takes longer to recover. So if you can hit a muscle again in 48 hours, why would you wait a week in between like Mentzer preaches?
ive been doing this for around 10 years now i think, ever since i saw kevin spacy getting high and working out in american beauty, i thought hey why not do two activities i like at once. its all mental, i can really focus on what im doing and really get into it.TheStig said:I don't partake in any herbs so I'm having a hard time understanding how vaping would help with lifting hard. I could imagine how it could get you in the zone mentally, but I love being wired before a workout, and I wouldn't think vaping would get you all jacked and ready to go. So how's your experience doing what you do?
HIT is awful for naturals, you don't need that vast amount of recovery. Why do so few naturals thrive on it? Because the stimuli just isn't there, it's nowhere near enough. I can only understand using HIT if you're over 40.foreverAFC said:actually, HIT is great for natural users because it allows for more recovery time.
also, i dont know about you, but the way i workout it definitely takes me more than 48 hours to recover, mikes point is that by taking a couple days extra off to completely heal there is no threat of losing muscle but there is the possibility of gaining and becoming stronger, he really emphasis recovery as one of the most important parts of gaining muscle.
thats just your opinion, HIT will work just fine for natural peopleDanZy said:HIT is awful for naturals, you don't need that vast amount of recovery. Why do so few naturals thrive on it? Because the stimuli just isn't there, it's nowhere near enough. I can only understand using HIT if you're over 40.
And that's just your opinion. Where are these naturals who have gotten jacked on HIT? I'm yet to see oneforeverAFC said:thats just your opinion, HIT will work just fine for natural people
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.
what do you mean by jacked? nobody is going to look like an actual bodybuilder without steroids, no matter how they choose to lift. however, there are plenty of regular guys who have gotten in shape with HIT, you can see their videos on youtube.DanZy said:And that's just your opinion. Where are these naturals who have gotten jacked on HIT? I'm yet to see one a
No it's not just his opinion. It's been proven by science that for optimal hypertrophy, you should be doing 40-60 reps per muscle group (less for smaller muscles) twice per week. Will HIT work for some? Yes. Is there more efficient & effective ways to train? Yes.foreverAFC said:thats just your opinion, HIT will work just fine for natural people
can you show me the proof?[S]alvatore said:No it's not just his opinion. It's been proven by science that for optimal hypertrophy, you should be doing 40-60 reps per muscle group (less for smaller muscles) twice per week. Will HIT work for some? Yes. Is there more efficient & effective ways to train? Yes.
how is this proof, thats one guy expressing his opinion again, i didnt see any information about any actual scientific studies[S]alvatore said:
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
One guy? That one guy is Lyle McDonald, possibly one of the greatest minds in the industry alongside the likes of Alan Aragon, Layne Norton and Tom Venuto. And not one of them advocates such training.foreverAFC said:how is this proof, thats one guy expressing his opinion again, i didnt see any information about any actual scientific studies
DanZy said:One guy? That one guy is Lyle McDonald, possibly one of the greatest minds in the industry alongside the likes of Alan Aragon, Layne Norton and Tom Venuto. And not one of them advocates such training.
Yes HIT works, if you're on a vast amount of gear
I've been training for a long time. In that time, I've never known even one guy who used HIT and made any real progress for more than a few weeks.
I also regularly follow/post in a large number of journals in the 'journals' forum on this site. Not one of the journalers uses HIT.
It's been repeatedly clinically proven that multiple sets produce more gains than one set.
BTW, Mentzer was a volume trainer for many years and built most of his size with volume routines. Great physique, juice or no juice.
I dedicated myself to this program for 6 months after reading tons of info online suggesting HIT was great for buidling mass and a whole bunch of bs about overtraining and cortisol, and staying in the gym for over 45 minutes and your muscles shrink dadadaadada.
I got slightly stronger, but I lost 4 lbs and stalled like 1 month in the program...I thought it was my diet, protein was 1.25x bw and eating 250 cals in excess.
Switched back to an average bodybuilder split....working muscle 2x a week 12-18 sets and grew like I was on roids. Strength shot up, and noticed I lost a tad it of fat while gaining weight.
In the entire history of bodybuilding exactly 2 guys have had really good success using HIIT. They have ever since been held up by it's many many advocates, "see it works".
The thousands of sucessful bodybuilders whom it didn't work for somehow get ignored.
this article is about strength development, not hypertrophy[S]alvatore said:
so he has no credentials then? why should i take his advice?[S]alvatore said:I don't know where you get your info from if you've never even heard a passing mention of Lyle. He was very average at weight training (more of an endurance athlete) which is part of the reason why he got into the industry, to actually learn what genetically average/below average trainees needed to do to make gains. Generally the best coaches weren't very good at their sport.
well different things work better for others, but we dont know if they were even doing it right, if they had enough intensity or were going to true failure for example, i have provided videos of people who have gained muscle with HIT so we know it can work[S]alvatore said:Here's a thread from bb.com where people have had experience with HIT: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=132277263
You don't have an open mind, so I'm not going to bother.foreverAFC said:so he has no credentials then? why should i take his advice?
Degree in kinesiology (exercise physiology), numerous books and a constant source of knowledge in the industry for almost 20 years.
well different things work better for others, but we dont know if they were even doing it right, if they had enough intensity or were going to true failure for example, i have provided videos of people who have gained muscle with HIT so we know it can work
Ok, so anyone who has not achieved notable results with HIT have not followed it properly?
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.