"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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protein shake to build up muscles?

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what are high quality protein milkshake suitable for build up muscles?
 

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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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Doesn't work like that.

Your body does not actually need that much protein. You probably get enough in your diet already. 0.8g/lb of lean body mass experiments show. Count everything, fruits, juices, veggies.. etc.

You need calories to build that muscle. Try not to have them in the form of carbs. Activating your insulin is what puts the pounds on. That's what insulin does. Stores carbs as bodyfat for later use.


Try adding milk to your diet. A litre spread through the day everyday, homogenized for extra calories. You can also use plant and nut butters, oils like coconut oils, etc. It's hard to eat enough calories but its easy to eat them in the form of fat.
 

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Milk rules... I drink a metric arseload of it. Can't recommend it enough.

I mainly use protein shakes as a source of extra calories before and after workouts and in place of meals. They tend to not have much fat in them, and fewer carbs than you would get if you ate a whole meal.
 

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Protein is great for post workout because of it's absorbtion rate. Otherwise I drink a few a day for the calories, and in case I can't get in my daily steak and chicken.

These guys are right though, calories are your answer. Check out the vault for some good Post Workout and Diet threads.
 

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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?

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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.

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A good whey/milk protein is great way to add some extra protein to your diet.
Check out trueprotein.com, there stuff is top notch.

Alle Gore-> that 0.8g of protein/lb is absolutely and entirely undershooting optimal. Yes that much protein MAY build muscle but it has been found for athletes looking to remain in a positive protein balance aka add some muscle.... to eat from 1-1.5g/lb of LEAN BODY MASS. 0.8/LB will work good for a chubby guy, but tell a skinny guy to do that and you are just setting him up for failure.
 

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eaturmcts said:
Yes that much protein MAY build muscle but it has been found for athletes looking to remain in a positive protein balance aka add some muscle.... to eat from 1-1.5g/lb of LEAN BODY MASS. 0.8/LB will work good for a chubby guy, but tell a skinny guy to do that and you are just setting him up for failure.
Nope. The study was done on college athletes. If you're interested in the paper, let me know. 0.8g/lb of bodyweight.

The reason most bodybuilders recommend up to 1.5g/lb of bodyweight is because protein is 'lean'. It's hard to digest and doesn't go straight to your gut like simple sugars and simple starches (white flour, potatoes... etc.).


The best diet change is not to eat way more protein, rather remove the simple carbs and add in more fat. Mostly from fruits and vegetables if possible.
 
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The average person is recommended to consume 0.8g/lb. Weightlifters aren't the average person.
 

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TyTe`EyEz said:
The average person is recommended to consume 0.8g/lb. Weightlifters aren't the average person.
The RDA for the average person is 0.8g of protein per kilogram. For athletes its up to 1.8g per kilogram which is 0.8g/lb of bodyweight.

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/articles/scni29a5.htm


What you guys have to realize is that muscle is mainly water, and the rest doesn't take much protein to build and repair. What the body does need in large amounts is a clean source of calories in the form of good fats and low GI carbohydrates.
 

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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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