"I just moved here from Florida."
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?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
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.
Skinny arms?
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"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
6-heads lewis
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there are undoubteduly many people on this forum who have better physiques than you, or, more appropriately, have come closer to achieving their goals than you have yours. we dont all want to be 150lbs with a 6-pack or pose in a thong for some closet homosexuals.
if you honestly consider yourself to have a tiop physique (at 19 years old no less), your view of the ocmpetition is incredibly narrow, and you will be disappointed.
how do you want me to prove that 2/week is better than 1? Ive had much better results on 5x5 than a typical push/pull split. what the hell does that prove? stop being dumb.
Very true. The idea of training is to train as frequently as possible, as far as your recovery allows. Therefore, if you can get away with squatting 3x a week, you should fvcking well do it. Equally, if you're a genetic freak whose body recovers well enough to train 5 days a week, there's no reason you should do it.6-heads lewis said:
The ultimate piece of advice in this thread should be don't try to curl your way to big arms...squat, deadlift, bench and chinup your way there instead..
-shaun
"I just moved here from Florida."
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?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
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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Blinkwatt cares. He's the one that gets very insecure when I point it out. His advice is crap, and it can very well be demonstrated by his experience it's bad. If he wants to be cut, he needs to learn to shut the hell up about lifting weights. Getting cut is a diet tactic and lifting weights is pretty much irrelevant. Let him stick to giving diet advice, but even the diet advice I've seen him give was complete vague, easily regurgitated crap, like "eat lots of protein" <<< Very stellar advice. lol.
He cares. Isn't that obvious? If he wasn't so insecure and DEEP DOWN ASHAMED of his size he wouldn't get upset when I point it out.
Anyways, back to dot's original question.
You are 2 inches round at the skinniest part of your arm??? Holy shyt. My **** is larger than that!
But seriously, I've got your same skinny arm syndrome, and it's just the way we're built dude. I'm barely 10 more pounds than you, and about an inch or two shorter. I presume your 2" girth is at your wrist? I'll tell ya, I got some skinny wrists, but if you start out with major compounds and concentrate (over the long term!!!) on increasing your weight, you will gain size in your biceps/triceps & forearms. Increasing the size in those areas will make your wrists look better. But the truth is, your wrists will always be skinny man, not much you can do about that. Concentrate on the stuff that is under your control.
Lift, and lift heavy, and don't fixate on the parts of your body you aren't happy about...and that you can't do shyt about..
Strength building/lifting, is more mental that you can imagine. Most of all, work on that self-image. Without self image, you are nothing but a waste of skin.
Just my humble opinion. Important disclaimer in light of where this thread is headed
"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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John_Galt said:
TO THE OP:
disregard any other advice in this thread, the deadlift is all you need to make your man arms, and of course proper nutrition
Skilla_Staz
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As for building up your forearms, and arms in general...
Pull Ups,
Deadlifts
Grip work
Hammer Curls
Bench
Dips
Once you get into seriously heavy lifting, your grip, and in turn probably your forarms will begin to grow. If you want to target them specifically, get a forarm roller, grippers, and do some reverse preacher curls, overhand grip deadlifts, and hammer curls.
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Actually rock climbing works your entire body and is some of the best excersise I have ever gotten. I have never been in better shape than when I'm in heavy climbing phases.
Maybe I'll try that. I used to hate rock climbing (heights mainly), but I tried it once a year ago on a small wall and it was fun.Visions007 said:
Thx to everyone for their suggestions.
To clear things up, the 2 inches is the width from the top side of the forearm (hairier, less sensitive side), not girth. And from the underside it's 2.5 inches. Weird, but either way I think my arms look skinny from the front. I think I am generally light and I need to put on more pounds overall. Yeah I'll learn to stop worrying about it. I used to worry about the dumbest things, looking back. Now I can't even remember all of them.
"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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