"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 give up! No deadlifts for me!

Werman

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The strain is just too much on my bad hip. Squats are out too. It's not going to get any better until after my next surgery in Nov, when I'm getting a total hip replacement. Even then, the doc said not to do anything that causes pain now as it will just speed up the wearing out of the prosthetic and hasten another replacement.

I know enough about training that I can work those muscle groups independently, but other than benchpress, what else can I do to get testosterone levels up?
 

"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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Werman said:
Got injured while deployed. See the full story here.
You are a strong man soldier. Props!

Doing deadlifts with shrapnel in your hips is a bad move. Wait for the hip replacement.

I don't like isolation exercises like leg extensions and leg curls. They put a lot of shearing force on the knee.

I stick with compound exercises for the legs.

Can you move the surgery ahead of schedule? My clients that had the surgery experienced much greater mobility and freedom from pain.
 

"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.

Read more...

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