"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
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.
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
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.