"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Working out and Music

Celadus

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Lifting to music pumps me up and I'm stronger than when I don't have it. I've heard that listening to loud music(headphones) while working out might damage your ears?

Anyone know anything about it?
 

"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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NRM

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Listening to really loud music does damage your ears. Back in high school the teacher played certain frequencies on some "frequency playing thing" and it got to the point where some frequencies were heard by only 2 or 3 students. The older we get, the more frequencies we lose in our hearing. When we are just born, that is when our hearing is the strongest, loud music and loud noises kill the things that pick them up.

I forget what the physical part in your ear is called. But the point is, loud music hurt your ears, period. Most people won't stop listening to loud music, because it isn't going to kill you. And working out does NOT make a difference, unless you are wearing some sort of headphones that lock onto your ears and they get stuck to your squat bar somehow and you drop the bar to the floor, pulling your ears from your head and leaving them on the floor.

Other than that, loud music doesn't do any worse when you're working out than when you aren't. But very loud music IS bad.
 

Rith

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Yeah, I heard about a study done that said that people listening to high-tempo music ran longer than people who liostened to nothing. I say if it makes your workout better, either by making it more enjoyable so you have more motivation to do it or if you work out harder than when you have nothing, then do it. Just not loud, it should be comfortable to hear.
 

true|hockey

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I would say that the music itself over the volume effects my workout more.

Just not loud, it should be comfortable to hear.
 

“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”

Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.

Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers.  Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.

I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.

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DJBen

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I have mine my home gym down in the shed with a stereo. I workout right before college, shower, then go leave the house - while I'm blasting music out, the neighbors are just leaving so I'm lucky.

Headphones however loud you want, as long as you wont lose yourself in the music and come close to dropping a 195lbs barbell on your face when close-grip benching [guy at my old gym almost did that, fool :rolleyes:]
 
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