"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.

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I'm going to be traveling for the next few weeks but I want to do about an hour work out every day while i do. Does any one have any recommendations for what exercises to do?
 

"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.

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Pushups
pullups
situps
supermans
planks
dips between tables or chairs
squats
burpees
go for a run
 

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Use your hotel gym if there is one. If not, pushups, situps, bodyweight squats, basically everything MrS said will do. There are lots of different ways to do pushups. I like adding plyometrics, pushing up off the ground and clapping between reps. Also squat jumps.
 

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These seem like pretty cool exercises, but what are the actual "heavy duty" exercises that are difficult to perform? 1 hand push-ups and 1 leg squats are the only ones I can think of.
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Yes, throttle.

You want heavier stuff?
1 hand pushups
1 leg squats (pistol squats)
hand stand pushups
One arm planks
One arm chinups or progressions towards this, like negatives or static holds
towel pullups, terror on the grip
bodyweight tricep extension, one arm if you can
Situp explosively into a squat, so you roll forward hard enough to land on your feet and squat up
glute ham raise
Ab wheel rollouts, standing or knees
Russian twists with arms outstretched holding your weight
Knee raises. These aren't hanging from a bar and raise your knees, aim is to get your knees to your elbows

All of this without equipment, except a bar and a wheel. In fact, **** the wheel.
Dragon flags.
Lying hip swings
v-ups
Pike presses
One legged pushups
Diamond pushups
Divebomber pushups
clap pushups
Double clap pushups
depth plyometric pushups, where you just move your hands from the pushup position onto two objects slightly above the ground like a pair of bricks
same as above but with a full pushup in between.
power overs - pushups explosvely to move one of your hands onto an object like a brick in front of your face, move the other hand over onto it.
Lunge jumps
squat jumps
tuck jumps
knee jumps

That's enough, kiddies.
 
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