"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.

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What are you?

What exercises do you spend the most time training?

  • Olympic Lifts (Clean and Jerk, Snatch)

    Votes: 1 3.7%
  • Power Lifts (Squat, Bench, Deadlift)

    Votes: 15 55.6%
  • Body Building (Targeted exercises e.g. curls)

    Votes: 4 14.8%
  • Conditioning (Cardio/Endurance work)

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • Other (please name)

    Votes: 2 7.4%

  • Total voters
    27

Flyer

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Just wondering.
 

"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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MrS

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Conditioning is king, power lifting is second.
 

JohnnyIrish

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Power lifting + conditioning
 

Fuglydude

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I'd say I'm a combination of most of those... I love olympic lifting, powerlifting is fun too.

I have a very tough time gaining weight while still staying lean, but I'd say I'm still into bodybuilding.

Conditioning is something I need to work on. ... I hate cardio!
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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DarkShade

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Building / Conditioning

I'm down to 184 from 200 in just a few months workout :)
 

cuzza

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Bodybuilding.

The only powerlift I do is squatting.
Bodybuilding makes it sound like I spend my time doing curls and kickbacks, but in the main it's still compounds, presses, DB rows, etc.
 

BMX

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Conditioning & powerlifts. Gotta do both for MMA amateurs, as I get closer to the fights, weightlifting is more endurance focused.
 

The Bat

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Power lifting all the way. Well, I throw in a little bit of bodybuilding exercises but that's to supplement and power the big 3's.

I'd rather be the scrawny guy lifting massive weights than the scrawny guy super setting curls and kickbacks. ;)
 
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