Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single
She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
No real strength increase
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"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.
Alpine
Master Don Juan
Alpine
Master Don Juan
Having said that, strength increases typically go hand in hand with mass gains ( though not necessarily in a linear fashion), so I think your cycle has run it's course for sure.
Personally I would do a strength orientated cycle now (3 months, dropping poundage down some at the begging of each month), for a number of reasons.
It's nice to see yourself getting stronger and your strength matching your looks.
It tends to focus you on basic lifts and progression in poundage.
It sets you up nicely for superior gains on your next mass cycle.
You can come back to this routine in the future and compare your progress to date with ease.
What not to do.
Add more sets to your current routine or days per week.
Changing barbell curls to dumbell curls and using your max poundage in the first session or similar nonsense.
In essence ease up, then build up, with the same core exercises.
"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.
Btw try to ad 5-10% weight per week to each lift and tell me by how many 100 % youve increased your lifts in a year
Alpine
Master Don Juan
A begginer might start squatting at 80lbs and 3 months later be at 130lbs, but that's about the only exception.
But anyone whose been training a while and say is benching 150 would be chuffed with 5-10lbs over a couple of months.
Where % are useful is when you build up momentum from a known position at the start of each cycle, say 85% of your last max poundage and go up in % increments from there.
That way next time round you will start off with more on the bar and build from there.
It's tiresome I know, get back to those armcurls ehh.
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"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.