"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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Left tricep feels smaller and like mush

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I've been hitting the gym the last 4 months or so. My right tricep has gotten much bigger, and feels hard to the touch.

But my left tricep feels smaller, and it's soft and feels mushy.

What the hell is going on?
 

"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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Keep training, everything starts to even out after you've been training a year or so with correct form.
 

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my left arm is smaller, not that noticeable but it still is. Urgh, and i do everything with what i believe to be correct form. Slow movements, slow down, fast up movement..argh
 

"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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But why does my left tricep feel like mush when I touch it? It's very soft. But my right tricep is hard like a rock?

Am I overtraining my left tricep? It doesn't seem to be growing.
 

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Vlad the Impaler said:
But why does my left tricep feel like mush when I touch it? It's very soft. But my right tricep is hard like a rock?

Am I overtraining my left tricep? It doesn't seem to be growing.
What is your weekly routine?

What are your numbers? Ie. what do you bench?
 
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Quagmire911 said:
What is your weekly routine?

What are your numbers? Ie. what do you bench?

Well, my routine is pretty pathetic to be honest with you. I'm new to working out, and I go to the gym alone, so I've been avoiding the free weights. I've just been using the machines.

So one day I'll do triceps/chest...

I don't even know the name of the machines I use. For triceps I do the pull down cable machine, and then some dips.

Then I guess it's called the seated bench press? Where you sit down and push the weight. I'm up to 220 on that.

So I don't even know how much I can bench. I haven't messed with that yet. And I don't do cardio. How bad is that? I just lift weights.

But, I have been seeing good results. I'm a lot bigger than I was 3 months ago.

I need better diet and kick out the alcohol too.
 

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I've injured myself once in three years of lifting and that was doing a pullup.

Don't avoid the free weights. They're simply not dangerous in comparison to a ton of other activities people. Soccer is a well known one that has far more injuries than free weights do.
 

"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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