"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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How to Perform the Bent-Over Barbell

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mrRuckus said:
Well it started off as a joke though i did have the issue yesterday doing them for the first time...

i came home and looked at more videos of it being done and realized i wasn't doing them exactly right. I was more pulling the handle(rope) up to about shoulder height, which would make the cord go up into my groin, rather than leaving the rope down low like in this video:

http://www.midwestbarbell.com/videos/hampullthrough.wmv
-- i go further down and back than that though.

So i was turning the thing into an arm exercise at the end too...

Still kicked the sh1t out of my glutes and hamstrings, though... I'm really trying to do a lot of lower back, hamstring, hip builders lately to help with my squat and deadlift sticking points.
Lol, you were serious ;)

To tell you the truth, I don't have a pully machine in my home gym, so I couldn't really help you at this moment :D

But yeah it's a good exercise. Some other exercises that are good for the posterior chain:
* power cleans /snatch (i know)
* glute ham raises
* reverse hyperextensions
* romanian deadlifts
* etc

You already knew that of course, it can always help somebody else reading the topic.
 

"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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Im surprised youre such a small guy for all your stronglifting you do.
 

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Charm said:
Im surprised youre such a small guy for all your stronglifting you do.
Just to show you that it's all about calories. I'm muscular, but if you don't eat more, you won't grow bigger.
 
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