"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.

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Olympic plates on a standard barbell

yungahdubz

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Would it be okay if i used 2 20kg oly plates on a standard 1" barbell?

It will primarily be for deadlifting.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Fuglydude

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If the bar is a standard 20 kg or 45-lb olympic bar then its fine.
 

yungahdubz

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Nah, the bar is only 7.5 kg, 1", unlike an oly bar which is 2.5".

The plate would be much too big for the hole, but as it will be for deadlifitng there wont be much spinning of plates involved.
 
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