"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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I don't know what happened......

DJintheworks

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But after making slow gains for the past 3 years of consistent weight training going from 135lb on up to 160lb (I am 5'9) and being stuck at 160 for about a year, these past 6 weeks I have just exploded. I have gained in the past 6 weeks about 12 pounds. This is NOT water weight, and I doubt it is all muscle but My six pack is still there and I don't even do situps EVER, so I don't care what the %%% are.
I am no expert but this is what I changed in the past 2 months.

1. Eat carbs, I was doing a zone/atkins diet for ALONG time because I heard it balances your insulin and gives you more energy, but it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to gain weight on this diet.
2. Drink water, BUT with every solid food meal have a beer or a glass of juice. This adds another 400 cal a day.
3. Eat in the morning, protein shake and some oatmeal.
4. Lift your legs, I never really got into this and I still don't at the moment do squats, but lunges among other things are doing well.
5. Frozen food, I am a lazy cook so when there wasn't fresh food lying around I missed a meal. Frozen burritos, fish, chicken strips, there is tons of quick food at your grocery freezer.
6. Screw creatine, it adds some water weight but no real size, its overated.

anyway I still have far to go and MUCH to learn but with this new added size I feel and look like a machine.
 

"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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wheelin&dealin

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Originally posted by DJintheworks
6. Screw creatine, it adds some water weight but no real size, its overated.
False.

A few days after I started taking creatine my pants didn't fit. My a$$ and legs grew quite a bit.
 

The Great Juan

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Hehe, so basically you started eating heaps more calories and started training properly (doing legs)? Yep, that'll do it for you basically, good work on your new gains anyway.

Oh, and start squatting.

BTW, trying to bulk while on the Atkin's Diet, nice one :D
 
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