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You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing 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.
 

"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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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).
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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