"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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question about the 20 rep squat routine

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If I do dumbell squats (holding dumbells in each hand, squatting while bending arms holding dumbells up to chest/shoulder level) will that have the same testerone release as regular squats.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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I doubt it would have the same testosterone release. You wouldn't be going as heavy with the dumbells as you would with a barbell.
 
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your hands can't hold as heavy of weight as your shoulders or traps can. therefore you are not lifting heavy enough with your legs on the squats to make gains for very long. about all that will do once you've built up to the weight of your heaviest dumbell will just be to tone going through the motions like a typical calastentic since u'll no longer be using more weight or enough weight to challenge the large strong muscle groups in the legs. the key to gaining mass is to overload muscles with more weight/stress than they can tolerate at their current mass. then have adequate nutrition and rest between workouts to allow the muscle to repair and then build up to adapt to the heavy load. you need to keep periodically increasing the load/intensity to get more growth because the muscle will adapt to what u do to it and have no reason to grow more unless u force it to do more. but remember the 4 keys, 1. workout with intensity and heavy weight. 2. maintain good form through everything in a workout 3. eat with proper nutrition and at least one gram of protein intake for every pound your body weighs. 4. give your body rest and time to repair and grow (as you workout longer and make more gains you will have to add additional days off between workouts as the more intense and heavier the workouts on an already developed body the more time that body will require to repair and grow too greater mass)(longer refers to over the course of time, weeks, months, years not the total time of a workout)(a workout with heavy weights should not exceed 47 minutes because then the body starts producing cortisol and your workout loses efficiency and results may be less and can lead to overtraining and injury)
 

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Thanks, that helps alot. I've been using a 5' bar with 120lbs to start with (don't laugh). I do bent over rows and close grip bench presses). I've been eating good clean foods for the last week too.

I want to get up to 195lbs with a bigger upper body (bigger arms-you know).
 

"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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