"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Q. about chinups and bars

wolf116

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With chinups/pullups. is it better to do them on a stright bar or one of them special ones with the angled ends. like this /-------\ but not really tho
 
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"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.

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Straight, probably.
 

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With chin-ups, straight. ..I can't imagine it's possible to do a chin-up with your hands angled on one of those bars.. that would be very strange and probably cause alsorts of problems with your wrists.

Pull-ups - however you want!

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Everyone always interchanges the terms pullups with chin ups even if they know the difference. You should be doing all grips (pronated, supinated, hammer, wide, narrow) to effectively target everything.
 

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The bars that are angled 0utward like that are for wide grip, overhand chin-ups. Doing normal underhand chin-ups should be done on a normal flat bar.

Why the hell do the censor o u t w a r d ?
 

"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.

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md3sign said:
Everyone always interchanges the terms pullups with chin ups even if they know the difference. You should be doing all grips (pronated, supinated, hammer, wide, narrow) to effectively target everything.
One set of each? lol

Pro narrow
Pro wide
Hammer (my fave)
Sup wide
Sup narrow?


Sound good? sets of 6 hah
 

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Haha no I mean in general. I do hammer chins on arm day and wide grip pullups on back day. If the bar was thicker in the center I'd do close supinated grip chins as well. And I still want to do those 1 arm pullups ....
 

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My back and bi's are on the same day...hmm.
 

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I've been doing sets with the overhand grip, but pulling up to the bar behind my neck. there pritty hard but my friend said there bad for you. Do you guys know
 

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there's a potential for rotator cuff damage anytime you bring something behind the neck (pull up, pull down, military or shoulder press). A quick google search will bring up some of the latest 'wisdom' on the subject.
 

"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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