"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.

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Want to get big fast?

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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Armourhead

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There are definitely faster and slower rates of mass gain.

However it is important for people to keep things in perspective. Under highly controlled medical studies the fastest rate of muscle gain was 6.6 lbs in 6 weeks. This was observed in a new trainee under supervised steroid use. If anybody is telling you that you can gain 30 lbs of muscle in 30 days, its pure utter bs. Blue pill fitness mentality.

More realistic is about .5 lbs of muscle/week with a total weight change of 1 lb. This equates to about 25 lbs muscle/year. As you become more advanced this slows down even more to about half the rate of the prior year. Until you hit about 4-5 years of good training then gains simply don't materialize anymore.
 

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Let's keep it real. Without steroids, your max gain is about 2 lbs of muscle per month. That's if EVERYTHING is on point. Diet, training, and sleep(85% of guy's FAIL big time with that part---but it might be the most important part).

However, most guys are probably lucky to even hit 75% of that, and that will happen rarely...I'd say usually most months will be 25-50%...so most guys are looking at between half a pound and a pound of muscle per month...
 

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Heavy duty supplements like steroids, or other potentially harmful, performance enhancing substances that can help you build muscle much faster, but I’m assuming you are far too smart to do that! Other less dangerous, but still potentially harmful substances like Creatine can aid in muscle growth as well.
 
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