"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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High Intensity Training with Mike Mentzer

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[S]alvatore said:
You don't have an open mind, so I'm not going to bother.
yes, its very possible that the two or three random guys you quoted off bb.com as being proof that hit doesnt work may not have done it correctly
 

"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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It's not that it doesn't work, there are just better ways to train. I understand what he's trying to say in regards to recovery, but here's the issue:


Muscle protein synthesis is elevated for 48 hours, which means it is ready to be trained again after that amount of time. So why the hell would you wait 168 hours to hit a muscle again? That period of time will cause the muscle to start detraining.


He harps on about recovery, because you're going to failure and beyond. Training like this drains your central nervous system more than your actual muscles. It takes longer than 48 hours for your nervous system to recover, hence why it is better to leave 1 or 2 reps in the tank. You'll still be able to have an effective training session on the same muscle group in a couple of days time. Going to failure and beyond? No.

Who's going to make better gains? The person that squats/benches 156 times per year, or the one that squats/benches 52 times per year?


Have an open mind about training and nutrition, don't get married to one particular style or routine.
 
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