"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

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.

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How To Build Muscle: The Definitive Guide

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Internet & magazines are full of misinformation & myths on how to build muscle. Countless methods promise results some struggle to achieve. It?s easy to build muscle the natural way. But you have to know how. These 10 tips will help you ? How to Build Muscle: The Definitive Guide.

http://stronglifts.com/how-to-build-muscle-the-definitive-guide/

If you like the article, give it a quick digg. This way more people will read this guide & achieve their goal of building muscle.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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"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 would make more sense if you mentioned in the article that the 18 x bw specifically referred to the amount of calories you should eat.
 

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Yeah, I read it as pounds I should eat per day.

So I should eat 140*18 lbs of food every day.
 

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stronglifts said:
I'm using the metric system remember? bodyweight * 2,2* 18

You're the third guy who reads it like that

I assume english is your second language if you live in Belgium, but the grammar of that sentence is wrong and doesn't say what you think it says :)
 

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His English is a lot better than my dutch :D

Good simple article that would get beginners on the right tracks.

Quagmire
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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Yep, excellent as always - the only thing I'd change is to increase the water intake according to your protein consumption. But for 1g per lb proten 1 gallon water is fine. :)
 

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mrRuckus said:
I assume english is your second language if you live in Belgium, but the grammar of that sentence is wrong and doesn't say what you think it says :)
I changed the sentence. English is indeed not my primary language. Thanks for correcting mrRuckus, helps improving my english skills ;)
 

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It went frontpage people. Thanks to all of you for digging the article. The article might not be detailed, but that was not the goal. These 10 tips will get anybody results if they simply apply it.

Thanks. And if I can return the favor: ask!
 

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I changed the sentence. English is indeed not my primary language. Thanks for correcting mrRuckus, helps improving my english skills ;)
I wasn't really correcting... more just giving you sh1t... it was still obvious what you meant.
 

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mrRuckus said:
I wasn't really correcting... more just giving you sh1t... it was still obvious what you meant.
No offence taken mrRuckus: it helps, thanks again. I fixed it ;)
 

"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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