"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.
no weight gain but my lifting numbers go up
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"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.
brucevangeorge
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Could be the nervous system is becoming more efficient and making the most out of the muscle you have.mrRuckus said:
That or you are losing fat and gaining muscle.
Warboss Alex
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if you are continually gaining strength in good form on key compound exercises and not gaining weight (provided your bodyfat is the same - as bruce said you might be recomping) you're not eating enough, simply.
if your bodyfat is the same AND if your form is good then it's your diet. if you're eating 1.5g of protein as most of you are, bump it up to 2g and do a rough calorie count per day. review how active you are and let us know.
bruce, the CNS has nothing to do with this. it can adapt to doing squats within a few weeks but does that mean if you keep putting weight on the bar and pounding out brutal sets and widowmakers you're gonna stop growing just because you've adapted neurally? if you meant bicep curls then I agree with you.
brucevangeorge
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Warboss Alex said:yes, you should be concerned enough to figure out why.
if you are continually gaining strength in good form on key compound exercises and not gaining weight (provided your bodyfat is the same - as bruce said you might be recomping) you're not eating enough, simply.
if your bodyfat is the same AND if your form is good then it's your diet. if you're eating 1.5g of protein as most of you are, bump it up to 2g and do a rough calorie count per day. review how active you are and let us know.
bruce, the CNS has nothing to do with this. it can adapt to doing squats within a few weeks but does that mean if you keep putting weight on the bar and pounding out brutal sets and widowmakers you're gonna stop growing just because you've adapted neurally? if you meant bicep curls then I agree with you.
I thought there was a limit and after that your system adapts to the work.
Don't you have to switch up routines and exercises once in a while? Otherwise you hit the wall if you continue on the same path?
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once you can't make strength gains on an exercise you change it for another and make strength gains on that one until you stop, then go back to the other one or a different one. (i.e. free squats until you get stuck, then box squats until you get stuck, then free squats again or front squats etc)brucevangeorge said:
I don't think your system adapts to the work after the limit, it's the opposite. after your limit your system can't adapt - you can't lift the weight. otherwise gaining strength would be progressively easier rather than progressively harder.
doesn't matter what you call it. when something stops working (i.e. no more strength gains), then you change it.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.