"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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Strength training for BJJ

"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.

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Yeah. Its called weight training.

See powerlifting. Best overall workout. Better than bodybuilding.
 

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I've been doing jits for about 1 year now, and the thing that has really helped me is powerlifting supplemented w/some bodyweight stuff and a little kettlebell work to make it interesting. Explosive lifts such as the clean & jerk are very good for developing takedown power, especially if you are doing sub grappling and start on the feet. Any good powerlifting program should be good, but I'm still a FNG to this stuff so I reccomend researching it before you listen to me. mmaringreport.com has a column by Lee Aldridge on strenght training for MMA which should apply to BJJ as well. I reccomend you pay special attentiopn to grip strength. My grip is a little weak, but I've been working it and my ground game is a lot better as a result. Do all your lifts w/o gloves, wrap towels around your dumbell handles, do Farmer's walks, do anything and evrything to improve grip. A weak grip will kill you on the mat.
 
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