"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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how to work forearms

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Oxide

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reverse curls with a bar that is really bent. I like that one quite a bit.

You gotta realize that forearms arent just one muscle, so you need a couple of exercises to work em properly.

The second exercise i do is just sit down with 35's.. and just move my wrist up and all the way down on the opposite side.. you can even drop the weight into your fingers more, see if that works it more.. do about 30 of these your foreamrs will kill..
 

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Pullups have worked the best for me. Try grabbing the bar and squeezing it as hard as you can. Pretend you're going to bend it into an upside-down 'U' shape - this will increase the contraction in your forearms and also lock your shoulders in their sockets, which is always a safety plus. If you can keep this iron death grip steady on the bar you will have mighty forearms, I guarantee.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Duke Togo

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forearm has 3 parts, after deads, throw in wrist curls, and reverse ez bar curls, that will cover everything.
 
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