"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.
TheStig's Workout Log
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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Bench Press
30 x 135 lbs
15 x 135 lbs
10 x 135 lbs
Squat
10 x 135 lbs
8 x 185 lbs
6 x 205 lbs
5 x 225 lbs
10 x 135 lbs
Ab Rollouts
3 sets of 10
Hammer Curls
10 x 40 lbs
10 x 35 lbs
10 x 30 lbs
10 x 25 lbs
10 x 20 lbs
That did the trick. I'm still a tad sore from the week but I feel energized now, which is a good thing because I have to work in an hour. Tomorrow and Sunday will be rest days so I will be looking to hit it hard again on Monday.
"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
The workout today was concise and intense, just the way I like it:
Squat
10 x 135 lbs
8 x 185 lbs
6 x 225 lbs
5 x 275 lbs
4 x 315 lbs
4 x 345 lbs
2 x 365 lbs
1 x 385 lbs
Dumbbell Bench Press
10 x 75 lbs
8 x 90 lbs
7 x 100 lbs (NEW PR!!)
T-Bar Row
10 x 135 lbs
8 x 180 lbs
6 x 225 lbs
Ab Rollouts
2 sets of 10
Pullups
2 sets of 10
Jump Rope
Sets of 25 doubles with as little rest as possible in between, for 15 min, didn't keep track of how many sets but let me tell you what....I'm f*ckin tired.
Bench Press
12 x 135 lbs
10 x 185 lbs
8 x 205 lbs
5 x 225 lbs
Barbell Shrugs
3 sets of 12 @ 225 lbs
Dumbbell Bench Press
10 x 75 lbs
6 x 90 lbs
6 x 100 lbs
6 x 90 lbs
T-Bar Rows
10 x 135 lbs
8 x 180 lbs
6 x 225 lbs
Dumbbell Flies Supersetted with Pullups
10 flies @ 40 lbs
10 pullups
x3
Dumbell Row Pushups (idk what they're called)
3 sets of 10 @ 20 lbs
Jump Rope
1 min on 1 min off, 5 times
30 doubles, 30 doubles, 40 doubles
Then after that me and a buddy went over to another friends house and did a couple Insanity workouts in his garage for about 50 min, the cardio abs one and the insane abs one, f*ck me those sucked haha
Stairclimber
15 min
(this made my quads more pumped than any amount of squatting I've ever done)
Squats
10 x 135 lbs
8 x 205 lbs
6 x 225 lbs
5 x 275 lbs
5 x 275 lbs
5 x 275 lbs
4 x 315 lbs
25 x 185 lbs
Sumo Deadlifts/Cleans
(I've never done sumos so I kept the weight light to focus on form)
10 sumos x 135 lbs
10 sumos x 185 lbs
[5 sumos then 5 cleans x 185 lbs] x3
Back Extension
3 sets of 10 @ bodyweight
Double Unders
4 sets of 25 with as little rest as possible
Gymnastic Ring Pullups
10, 10, 8, 5, 5, 5
Dumbbell Bench Press
8 x 80 lbs
8 x 90 lbs
6 x 100 lbs
"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.
Military Press
10 x 115 lbs
8 x 135 lbs
6 x 185 lbs
Cleans
5 x 135 lbs
5 x 185 lbs
5 x 205 lbs
4 x 215 lbs
2 x 205 lbs
5 x 185 lbs
Ab Rollouts/Pullups/Dips supersets
[10 rollouts/10 pullups/10 dips] x2
1 min jumping rope & 30 doubles
I think I should cool it on the rope jumping for a little while, my legs have been screaming lately.
Actually, surprisingly they're not. My lower back felt it though. I think my legs are used to squatting all the time because I do squat 2-3 times a week, but my back isn't used to the deadlifting motion used in deadlifts (obviously) and cleans. I'll be doing a lot more cleans from now on though, and maybe throw in some deads for good measure.Krueg said:
Squat
(warm up sets)
10 x 135 lbs
8 x 205 lbs
6 x 255 lbs
5 x 295 lbs
(working sets)
5 x 315 lbs
4 x 345 lbs
4 x 365 lbs
4 x 385 lbs
4 x 405 lbs
Cleans
5 x 135 lbs
5 x 185 lbs
5 x 205 lbs
3 x 225 lbs
was going for 5 on 225 but I failed on the 4th rep
Only jumped rope for a couple min to warm down with some doubles thrown in, I was pretty exhausted.
Today's gonna be a good motherfvcking day
"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Bench Press
12 x 135 lbs
10 x 185 lbs
8 x 205 lbs
5 x 225 lbs
3 x 245 lbs
23 x 135 lbs
T-Bar Row
10 x 135 lbs
8 x 180 lbs
6 x 225 lbs
Dumbbell Bench Press
10 x 75 lbs
6 x 90 lbs
6 x 100 lbs
Incline Bench Presss
3 sets of 10 @ 135 lbs
Dumbbell Row
10 x 80 lbs
10 x 90 lbs
10 x 100 lbs
Dips & Leg Raises Supersets
10 dips, 10 leg raises, 3 sets
Finisher
My buddy was on ab rollouts, I was on the jump rope. He'd do 10 rollouts, I'd do 25 doubles, then we'd switch. Did this 5 times, it got pretty intense.
Good day at the gym.
Did a 21, 15, 9 workout today. It's 3 rounds, and the 21, 15, 9 are the number of reps to do for each round. Each round was this:
Squats (225 lbs)
Pullups
Pushups
Russian Twists (10 lb medicine ball)
Dips
It took about a half hour, but man am I beat, I'm sweating like a f*cking pig lol.
Squat
(warmup sets)
10 x 135 lbs
8 x 205 lbs
6 x 245 lbs
5 x 275 lbs
(working sets)
5 x 315 lbs
4 x 345 lbs
4 x 365 lbs
4 x 385 lbs
5 x 405 lbs
Dumbbell Bench Press
10 x 75 lbs
8 x 90 lbs
6 x 100 lbs
Power Cleans
6 x 135 lbs
5 x 185 lbs
4 x 205 lbs
2 x 225 lbs
Sumo Deadlifts
3 sets of 8 @ 205 lbs
Light but my back was feeling it from the cleans
Finished with 10 min of jumping rope
"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.