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 weight gain but my lifting numbers go up
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing 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.
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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.
"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.