"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.
New routine flipped, critique please.
- Thread starter Julian
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"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
My favorite triceps exercise is dumbell triceps extension or lying triceps extension. Dips, close-grip bench press, and pushdowns are okay too...but stay away from those one-armed extensions--way too much isolation to do anything.
MetalFortress
Master Don Juan
Also, do not do abs 3 times a week. Put a plate across your chest for situps or ab hyperextensions, and do heavy sets like you would with any other lift.
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A better split would be: Biceps/Back, Chest/Shoulders/Triceps, Legs/Abs - two nice compound exercises for the big muscle groups and one for the smaller ones if you want to train this way.
Bin the shrugs and rear laterals (good grief), add skullcrushers and reverse/close grip bench for triceps and personally I never train abs or forearms directly as they get worked through squats, deadlifts etc.
"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.
Exactly what i was doing before.Biceps/Back, Chest/Shoulders/Triceps, Legs/Abs
Julian, I'm pretty new to lifting but on leg day I'd throw in some SLDL for the hamstrings. I can feel my hamstrings have gotten way larger than before using that exercise.
I'd do 3 set of squats, 3 set of SLDL, (all 4-8) 1-2 set leg press, 1-2 set hamstring curls. (all 6-10). (my current routine, my legs seem to like doing this, can check out a pic of my legs in my journal).
Also, I'd drop the rows on biceps day and exchange for some close grip weighted chin ups, (partial if you like focusing in biceps) and moving the rows to the back day.
For triceps the best exercises IMO are JM-presses, skull crushers and weighted dips.
Shoulders+legs is a great combo IMO, just a little hard if you want to do negatives on push presses instead of militaries.
MetalFortress
Master Don Juan
Reverse the grip, and they become chinups, which definitely hit the biceps hard.Originally posted by Julian
Yeah i dunno what i was thinking with this new routine. apparently i need to get more educated on what exercises hit which muscles (here i thought pullups where a bi exercises -_-).
Exactly what i was doing before.