"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.

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Pain in the back of the head during lifting

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Basically, when going through my reps (especially the last few reps of the final set), I'll get this burning pain in my cerebellum (well, that area of the head, seems to be below the skin though). It first started when I did a bad squat, where my hips roses faster than my shoulders, so I had to SLDL a large weight. Since, any time I'm struggling with a weight, the pain returns.

Any experiences with this? Should I see a doc?
 

"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.

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technically there is nothing wrong with your hips rising before your shoulders. The only reason you hear rise with your shoulders 1st is to prevent kyphosis.

If you can keep the natural curve in your spine and head (neutral position) then it doesn't really matter how you rise.

Power lifters rise from the hips all the time.
 

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Sounds similar to what happened to me last month.

It went away after 2 weeks or so thankfully. I think it was a pinched nerve in my back from improper form with the deadlift.
 

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yeah something similar happened to me doing when I was doing bent over rows a few months back..it felt like something burst near the back of my head, thankfully I didn't collapse!
 

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Sounds like a pinched nerve, but you can never be too careful. Make sure you are breathing the right way (inhale on the negative, exhale steadily throughout the lift).
 

"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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I suspect it might be the position of your head. You probably look to far up.
 
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