"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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I need workouts to increase speed!

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Well im joining the football team and all I need to worry about is speed.
I have decent speed(4.6) So far ive been doing sprints and sprinting with a chute(3 days out of the week)
Any other workouts you guys know about to soley increase speed and agility?
 

"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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Search for a program called Air Alert. Its all plyometrics designed to increase leg power so you can jump higher, sprint a little faster, etc. I did it for basketball and it was crazy how much I gained on my vertical in just the first month.
 

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Man there are all types, do you want faster acceleration, top-end speed, etc?
 

"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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steveoo5 said:
run under water, just blow all the air out and you'll sink
And pass out if you run without breathing...

Try running in water that is waist level.
 

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Royce said:
Man there are all types, do you want faster acceleration, top-end speed, etc?
Well considering the demands of the 40 yard dash, he's gonna want all of those things. He needs, power so he can get moving immediately, quick acceleration so he get up to speed and good top end speed, of course.

Power is very, very important for the 40, so lots of heavy lifting and plyos are essential.

I think your standard stuff should take care of it though. Pulling sleds, heavy lifting and accelerations are all great.

But with all that said, I think the football 40 is way overrated. Many of the hand times are pretty inaccurate and I don't think the 40 is specific enough to the game. If you really want to improve your football game, I strongly suggest that you sprint in track. The 100, 200 and 400. Your overall conditioning and speed will be a lot better by the end of it.

Yeah, and why don't you just talk to your coach about it? I'm sure he could provide some workouts for you.
 

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I have to agree with Adam. Track work with your track team will help to improve your running and football performance. 4.6 is actually pretty good speed, so you have a great base to start from.
 

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Heavy lifts do help out. Try with your basic compound lifts, squats (explode on the positives), cleans, etc. Do give plyometrics a shot with things such as squat jumps, burpees and frog hops up hills (steeper the more challenging). These are great anaerobic drills and your sport is very anaerobic.
 

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Jump squats with weighted chains are the best for explosiveness. We did a combination of plyometrics, jump squats and sleds in training before baseball this season and I increased my speed A LOT. Our trainer was a psycho though he had half the team throwing up. Hahaha, good times....
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Weightlifting and powerlifting is where it's at.
ben johnson is said to have squatted 600 pounds while weighing under 180 with no special equipment. http://youtube.com/watch?v=NbgOexlHC-U

If you don't have the amount of fast twitch muscle fibre required, your training will produce limited results.

I know it helped me immensely.
 

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immrtlwun said:
Search for a program called Air Alert. Its all plyometrics designed to increase leg power so you can jump higher, sprint a little faster, etc. I did it for basketball and it was crazy how much I gained on my vertical in just the first month.
i've got my hands on some free version of air alert called air alert 3 or something, does this differ from 1 and 2? if so can you post up or link me access to those respective programs? Also another thing, does this kill your legs? I'd imagine i'd have to lay off the leg workouts at the gym if i do air alert so i havent started it yet but would love some comments in regards to this.
 

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I used air alert 3 when I did it. The first couple weeks aren't too bad, you should be able to do leg days like usual. Week 7 or so you will probably have to lay off in the gym on legs. I'd say by week 11 you will probably want to drop your leg days in the gym if you're serious about the air alert. But once you finish it and go to maintenance stage, which I think is repeating week 8 again and again, you should be able to continue your leg workout in addition to the program.
 

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Plyometrics, (front and back) squats, stiff-legged deadlifts, running uphill, sledwork.
 
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