"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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Lower Abs

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Lie down, raise your legs up slowly. Then lift them back down, but never let your legs or feet touch the floor. You will feel burn on your lower abs if you keep doing it. You can intensify with ankle weights.

If you're trying to get a visible 6-pack however, you have to do cardio (ex: running) in order to burn the fat and let the muscles show.
 

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Along with leg raises, you can do reverse crunches. Remember though, you MUST have low bodyfat. For most guys, the lower abs are the last thing to come in as you lose fat.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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Do crunches in which you do not "curl" up. Keep the spine straight. This forces the lower abs to do more work than the upper pair.
 

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Originally posted by -.-
fact: there is no lower ab; just like there is no inner chest.

search http://forum.bodybuilding.com for more details. if you're too lazy to use the search function, feel free to post your questions.. lol.
It's more complicated than just blindly saying you can't train part of a muscle.

It's true that the abs are one muscle, and you can't isolate one part of a muscle. However, you CAN work one part of a muscle more than other parts.

Cool that you're posting the link to bodybuilding.com, by the way. I'm a regular poster there.
 

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You have your abs. You have fold lines in your abs which help you bend. Is there abdominal muscle below the 'four pack'? is there any muscle there? Yes. Then there are lower abs. Technically.

However, it's agreed that they hardly do much. It's hard to work definition into it, just a bit more strength. Theres your vague average answer.
 

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Originally posted by selfcontrol
It's more complicated than just blindly saying you can't train part of a muscle.

It's true that the abs are one muscle, and you can't isolate one part of a muscle. However, you CAN work one part of a muscle more than other parts.

Cool that you're posting the link to bodybuilding.com, by the way. I'm a regular poster there.
True, but then... Basically, most people think they need to work their lower abs when actually, they don't.

It's just that there are more fat in the lower abdominal region that the upper and middle abdominal.

So if they cut, most will find out they really need not work it after all. :)
 

"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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