"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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"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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down to chest/shoulders. thats the rack. press directly up, once bar passes forehead, get your head under the bar. in the end the bar is behind your head. :D
 

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Some people lower the bar to their chest, some people do it to chin level, some even to eye level. Find out what you can get away with. Chest level can be hard on some people's shoulders.
 

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Is it okay for me to not put my head under the bar when the bar gets to around forehead level, or will this cause injury?

Whenever i've tried it i go flying backwards with 30+kg over my head :nervous:
 

"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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control it, that's how you're supposed to do it. properly aligns spine with arms.
and don't ***** around and just rack onto the chest/delts.
 

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Keep your elbows at or above 90 degrees. Anything lower just wreaks of shoulder injury. Everyone is different, so if you feel any pain (I'm not talking soreness I'm talking aching pain) in your shoulders, adjust your work out accordingly. Trust me, screwing up your shoulder is NOT worth it! It's an injury that can plague you the rest of your life.
 

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get that money said:
bb military press

do you go down to your ears, or do you go down to your chest?
Chest

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I don't go past 90 degrees. I had a torn rotator cuff and you don't want that. Also remember to pull your shoulders back to line everything up.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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i dont think youll get injured racking it properly, but if you're injured already do what feels right.
breathe at top = smushed lifter.
 

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Kerpal said:
Again, how do you do a Valsalva maneuver that way? If you are holding the weight at the top and you let your air out to breathe in, you are going to lose support right at the top part of the lift.
You're right. The time I tried it I felt a bit unstable at the top of the lift. I guess it would be similar to breathing during overhead squats.
 
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