"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.
New routine flipped, critique please.
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"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.
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.
"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.
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.