"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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Twenty pull up challenge.

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I saw the "100 push up challenge" and thought I'd see how you all get on with this one.

Twenty pull ups challenge

You can do them with your knuckles facing or your knuckles away. The knuckles away work your biceps; knuckles facing you works your forearms and lats (primarily).

You can do them on a pull up bar, a wardrobe (I can't take responsibilty for injury or breakage), a climbing frame or monkey bars.

If you take the challenge, please remember to post which way you're doing the pull ups- knuckles facing towards you or away.

You'll hear a lot of people telling you that the knuckles facing away isn't "correct". It is. End of.

Oh, and by the way, if you could just edit your posts rather than make new ones when you update that'd be grand :up:

Anyway, here goes.

Moneytalk's progress
Knuckles facing:
Max-3
Week 1:


Knuckles Facing away:
Max-6
Week 1:
 

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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.

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Done day 1 for both.

I'm not sure on my form as I'm pretty much as tall as my door frame. So it's quite hard to judge it.
 
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pull ups are my forte. Being a swimmer and 11th in the nation for butterfly which is all upper body, i could at my prime do 30 pullup's. about a year ago i maxed out a 87 pushup's.

I might try to go for a hundred, i am a bit behind right now.
 

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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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get a pullup bar by your door. i've had mine there for 12-13 years.
 
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most chin ups i've ever done in one go is 15 so i might give this a shot.// maybe..
 
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Espi said:
Well, I've been doing chins and pulls for the past two years--consistently--and the most I've done is 17 ("knuckles facing")...so I'd love to see someone do 20--and post a vid.
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Will give it a go and post a vid when i get a chance. :)

I think 20 would be manageable for me. I'm a lightweight :p
 
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Will give it a go and post a vid when i get a chance. :)

I think 20 would be manageable for me. I'm a lightweight :p
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I take that back. Did a set of pullups after benching - only reached 12.

Sign me up on wide grip knuckles facing.
 

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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.

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knuckles facing.. im quite positive i can do 20, used to be able to definately but put on a bit of weight since then, will post a vid :)
 
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20 pull/chinups aren't nearly as challenging as 100 pushups :)

I'm doing 15 chins right now, and I'm ~180 pounds. Perhaps I'll do the challenge for the lulz.
(still angry that I had to drop out of the pushup challenge because of intense headache)
 
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Okay, did the chinups really slow and all the way and managed only 12. I'm on the challenge.
 
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This is a cool challenge... I agree w/ Huffman in that for me the 100 push ups would be MUCH harder than the 20 pull ups. I can routinely do 20-25 pull ups now, wide grip (w/ palms facing away) or narrow grip (underhand). My PB for bodyweight pull ups is 26. I'm only around 170 lbs right now, so being light definitely helps. I usually do 8-10 x 2 w/ a 45 lb plate around my waist, as this is more challenging.

I know I could probably only get to 14-15 tops if I did the pull ups/chin ups slower, like w/ a 2-1-4 tempo.

I'll try and get to 30 for the challenge. I don't think I have the muscular endurance yet to even get to 50 push ups, but getting to 100 would a definite accomplishment!
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Did 20 chins but broke my arm :(

(but not while doing the chins, haha!)
 
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I've managed 28 chinups, as for pullups I think my best is 22 or so. This was last year when I was lifting more often, I'll have to try it again now
 
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