"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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"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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I could easily squat like that with no weight but I just need to know, how many lb. is that kettlebell?
 

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I have a question too. How does flinging weight around like that translate functionally? There's no definite contraction and release. I understand it's cool Russian heritage, but really, wtf? I'm sure there are better alternatives.
 

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Originally posted by Saine
I could easily squat like that with no weight but I just need to know, how many lb. is that kettlebell?
I'm guessing the ones they use for the video are the 54 pounders. They don't look small enough to be 36 pounds or big enough to be 72 (or 88 for that matter) pounds. One guy at DragonDoor can do pistols with two 72 pounders at his shoulders.
 

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Originally posted by Soshyopathe
I have a question too. How does flinging weight around like that translate functionally? There's no definite contraction and release. I understand it's cool Russian heritage, but really, wtf? I'm sure there are better alternatives.
Aside from entertaining the fans, flipping and catching the weight is great for grip strength and ballistic shock as well as hand/eye coordination. My coach does stuff like that (as well as more normal-looking stuff) with the 36 pound bell for high reps, and at age 57 he dropped his bodyfat percentage from 20-22 to 12 percent in a few months. Didn't really diet either, and over the summer he dropped even further down to 10%.

An old friend of mine can flip the 88 pound kettlebell around like that. That's strength for ya ...
 
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“The 22 Rules That Turned Me From Invisible to Irresistible With Women… Starting Tonight”

You can skip the expensive cars, the fancy clothes, and the endless gym selfies. Completely unnecessary.

I used to freeze the second a beautiful woman looked my way. Frustrated. Awkward. Watching other guys walk away with the girl while I stood there tongue-tied.

Then I discovered 22 simple rules that rewired my entire dating life. The anxiety vanished. Conversations flowed effortlessly. Women started chasing me for a change.

These rules trigger a woman's subconscious attraction switches. And you can start using them tonight.

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Quite a feat. -_- I don't like these guys. :p :eek:
 

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I'll agree that hand and grip strength are the best kind to have, but there's got to be more. Do these same guys do squats or snatches or deadlift?
 

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Originally posted by Soshyopathe
I'll agree that hand and grip strength are the best kind to have, but there's got to be more. Do these same guys do squats or snatches or deadlift?
Yeah, Pavel's book/video Power to the People is about deadlifting and how to use it, and almost all of the guys there deadlift.. Not many do BB snatches but they all do KB snatches. Almost as many of them squat as deadlift.
 
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Soshyopathe, aren't you the kid who advocate Shaolin? Just wondering.:)
 

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one-handed snatches and lumberjack swings (between the legs, over the head) seem to be the only worthwhile motions with these things.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Originally posted by Soshyopathe
one-handed snatches and lumberjack swings (between the legs, over the head) seem to be the only worthwhile motions with these things.
They're certainly not the only worthwhile ones, but they probably are the best ones. One-handed snatches are usually all I do with my KB at home.
 

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I do two-handed snatch and clean & jerk. That's about it.
And "that's about it" can kill me!
 

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I never heard of lumberjack swing, got anything on it?

Other than that, kettlebell seems to own so far. When I first heard of it, I saw the weights. I thought 33 lb. was nothing, 60 lb. was nothing, then I went to the gym to test out 80 lb. I couldn't budge anything. -_- Quite a humiliation eh? The kid you saw trying to swing the 80 lb. was me. :D :) Lol.

What's the difference between swinging dumbbell and kettlebell?
It just seem to feel different but not much different.
 

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How so? How is snatch not swinging? You pull your back up and throw as fast as you can your arms up with the kb as if you were pulling the lawn mowner.
 

"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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