"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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Shaun's Training Log

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Well, this is my new training journal, I hope you enjoy following it.

I've had a training journal before, but I've always had interruptions just as I was gaining some pace, and as a result I moved slower than I really should've.

I'm now at Uni and there's nothing standing in my way :)

I have the privilege of being trained by EFFORT. My goals are size and strength via eventually working my way up to big squats, bench and deadlifts, hopefully over the next 3 or 4 years.

I hadn't trained properly for 6 weeks due to settling into Uni and my diet's been horrible, so I've lost quite a bit of strength. I currently weigh 147lbs, I was about 152 before Uni started. My maxes at that time were:

Squat, 65kgx3
Rack deadlift, 115kgx3
Bench press, 60kgx3

Overall small numbers at the moment, but I have the dedication to have fun working towards my goals, and a fvcking great trainer.

The current routine is gonna last for the next 6 weeks.

Cheers,
Shaun
 

"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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Well well. Welcome back stranger, long time, 'bout time you got back in the gym.

Still with the Mrs?
 
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Monday, 29 October

ME Lower

Lat pulldown, 47.5kgx5, 47.5kgx5, 47.5kgx5, 47.5kgx5, 47.5kgx5

Deadlift, 95kgx4, 95kgx4 (no straps, forgot to take em)

Goodmorning, 40kgx10, 40kgx10


shaun
 
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Good to see you getting back into things, will follow with interest, good luck

Quagmire

Ps-You doing a westside routine?
 
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Cheers Tom, Quag.

Aye, it's a westside mod :)

There's no interruptions now like there was before (i.e. two weeks out of the gym out of nowhere), so I won't be doing two steps forward and one step back like before. I'm looking forward to it.

It's good to see your training is going REALLY well Quag, it's fun following your lifting :)

shaun
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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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Wednesday, 31 October

ME Upper

Flat barbell bench, 42.5kgx5, 42.5kgx5

Incline dumbbell bench (paused), 14kgx8, 14kgx8, 14kgx8

Dumbbell situps

Not too bad, none of these are PRs, I'll still be building my way back up to where I was before for the next few weeks :)

-shaun
 
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ME Lower

Barbell rows, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5

Squats, 47.5kgx4, 47.5kgx4, 40kgx20

-shaun
 
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shaunuk said:
Friday, 2 November

ME Lower

Barbell rows, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5, 45kgx5

Squats, 47.5kgx4, 47.5kgx4, 40kgx20

-shaun
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I'm curious, were the first two squat sets primers for the 20 repper?

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added to training journals thread.

Don't worry about the numbers you have now.. spend your energy on the weight you'll be adding to it next workout.
 

"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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Hey Quag. Nope, they were worksets, 2x4. :)

Hey Quik, thanks for the support man ;)

-shaun
 
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"Squats, 47.5kgx4, 47.5kgx4, 40kgx20"

Just baffled me slightly. Can you shed any light? 7.5kg drop to add 16reps? What's going on :confused:
 
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Well, it was the hardest set of anything I've ever done..The whole set might well've been 3mins long for all the pauses I took :)

shaun
 
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