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.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Put the rows after deadlifts, order should be Deads, Row, Pull Ups, Curls. Rows are as important as Bench.I-tallionStallion said:FRIDAY ---
Had a hard nights sleep...results are weird
Deadlifts 3x5
1x5 385 - struggling pretty bad...for some reason today i just really didn't feel like going all out on these...i took an easy after this set. Nothing i'm concerned about...just didn't feel like it today
1x5 335 lbs
1x5 340 lbs
Pullups 2x8
Bi curls 3x8
1x8 30 lbs
1x8 35 lbs
1x8 40 lbs
barbell rows - 3x6
1x6 170 lbs
1x6 175 lbs
1x6 185 lbs PR ---was really liking the rows today...don't know why. the last two reps were probably a bit cheating...so i'd say i won't go any higher than this for this week. I'll work on perfecting it
Well thats it...nothing spectular...
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.
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.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
Congrats on the gains bro! :cheer:I-tallionStallion said:I am very lucky to have had the advice of several senior board members (you know who you are) and without you guys i'd be a clueless. This is by no means an end for me, i will continue on till i am fully happy and then maintain. It is not just a quick fix, but a lifestyle change that i enjoy, although others think I'm crazy for eating as much protein as i do haha.
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This right here is the main reason for your gainsI-tallionStallion said:halfway through november i decided it was time to work hard. And I have seen amazing gains.
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.