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Lift weights. Strength-training exercises help build manly muscles and burn fat. Use proper technique and proceed slowly if you’re new to weightlifting - you can hurt yourself with bad form. If you’re unsure of how to proceed and you can afford it, hire a personal trainer. They will help you craft an exercise routine that fits your precise needs. Manly men are aware of the image they project - stand up straight and walk with purpose. A good posture makes you look confident and may even make you feel more confident. A slumped posture appears beaten or submissive. If you have high body fat, consider dieting. Dieting isn’t feminine, it’s responsible. Losing weight can decrease your risk for heart disease and other common health issues later in life.

If you’re a husband or father, become a leader in your family. Take an active role in child-raising and/or balance the household budget, for instance. If you’re a boyfriend, be a mature, reliable one. Plan dates and outings without being asked. Be emotionally available for your significant other when they need it. If you have a career, commit yourself to it. Take on challenging projects, even if it occasionally means staying late or working overtime. Be the one person your boss can trust - you’ll earn much respect (and also job security!) Emulate manly role models who excel in their careers and home life, whether they’re familiar friends or famous heroes.

If you’re single, work on your sexual confidence. Try to be dominant in your flirtatious conversations and in the bedroom. Don’t get emotionally invested in relationships that don’t exist yet! If you’re inexperienced, begin simply by getting out more. Talk to attractive people you meet without fear - if there’s a mutual attraction, you might hit it off, and if not, you’ll still get better at talking confidently. Apply these principles to any committed relationships you find yourself in. Keep your confidence around your partner or spouse - surprise them by seducing them like you’d seduce someone you’re meeting for the first time.

Honestly critique your emotional state - do your experience certain emotions illogically? Tackle your weaknesses head-on. Talk to friends or a counselor to put your emotional state in a new perspective. Anyone can experience clinical depression, but depressed men are more likely to commit suicide. Depression can also lead men to neglect their family and career. If you are depressed, seek medical help. It’s not manly to pretend nothing’s wrong.

Take up a hobby! It’s never too late to learn a musical instrument or a new language. Join a debate team! Learning how to effectively argue is an important skill in almost all aspects of life. Take classes at your local community college. You’ll find new passions. If you’re ever proven wrong about something, admit it and move on. You gain nothing by obstinately refusing to change your mind.

Seek leadership roles in organizations. You’ll meet plenty of people and earn their respect. Join sports teams. Sports are a great way to improve your social life and your health at the same time. Save your tenderest, most intimate emotions for your relationships, but be a rock on whom the more emotional can lean on.

Never agree with someone just to fit in. Real men are self-assured, comfortable respectfully disagreeing with others when it’s needed. Do things that you like to do, without considering what other people will think. Do you like knitting, for instance? Then work at becoming the world’s manliest knitter.

Enjoy your new strength and athleticism, but don’t let it go to your head. Don’t boast or show off unless it’s in good humor - doing so is a sign of desperation for others’ approval, not of confidence. Pay attention to what you put into your body. Count your calories and avoid unhealthy foods.

Be open to relationships with new kinds of people. Talk to everyone - you may find that people with different perspectives on life can inform your own opinions. Take on new responsibilities at work and at home. Even if, for instance, you discover that you’re not the best at paying your household’s bills, you’ll learn the process, which is a gift in itself.

Often, the biggest challenges can come with the day-in, day-out grinds of sustaining a career and a home life. In this case, the challenge may be something as simple as going to bed earlier so that you can wake up to take your child to school. Just because these challenges aren’t glamorous doesn’t mean they’re not hard! Seek new challenges out. If your career and home life aren’t challenging, make new challenges for yourself! Sign up for a marathon

If you win, be a gracious winner. Shake their hand, look them in the eye, and never gloat. Reflect on the qualities you possess that led you to victory, as well as the ones that made victory more difficult. If you lose, lose responsibly. Never give up before the competition is over, even if your odds seem slim. Don’t whine or make excuse for yourself. Instead, try to find out why you lost so that you can devote extra practice to these areas,

Mr. T. had a very rough life before he found fame. Raised in one of Chicago’s roughest housing projects and expelled from college after only one year, he worked as a bouncer and bodyguard for years before landing his first film role. John Wayne, once the epitome of American Masculinity, struggled through three marriages and a cigarette addiction that gave him cancer. Still, he kept his manliness to the end. Long before he was Rocky, Sylvester Stallone was a desperate, struggling young actor. For three weeks, he was homeless, sleeping in the New York Port Authority bus station until he got his first starring role - in a porno. He didn’t become well-known until years later.

No need to handle women with kid gloves. Many women love raunchy humor as much as men do. Making jokes (even lewd ones) with women isn’t treating them disrespectfully - it’s showing that you consider her enough of an equal to let your emotional guard down. Get a sense of a woman’s personality first, then, if she seems game, joke away. On the other hand, avoid the use of gendered insults like “bitch,” even if you’re just joking. It’s easy to make a bad habit of using these words and even easier to have your intentions be misunderstood. Manly men don’t hurt peoples’ feelings on the basis of their gender. Never, ever commit an act of violence against a woman - it’s one of the least-manly things you can do. That of course does not mean that you have to allow a woman (or anybody else) to be violent, abusive or disrespectful toward you or anybody. Strength and violence are different things. To stop an abuse is a must, but does not necessarily need violence; use your brain power, instead.

Many times, annoying men won’t even know they’re annoying. If someone at the office has really bad breath, take them aside quietly and recommend some breath mints. Don’t tease them in front of everyone at lunch. There’s no reason to make someone suffer for something they’re unaware of. Life will sometimes require you to compete with other men. Compete as hard as you can, but remember that these men aren’t evil just because they’re in competition with you. They deserve your respect even as you work against them.

Being honorable at work is its own reward. Coworkers and supervisors will notice your hard work. You’ll earn the respect of your workplace and, more importantly, job security. Seek out new responsibilities at work, but don’t become so invested in your career that you neglect yourself or your family. If taking on a new duty means you won’t ever be able to see your children before they go to sleep, pass it up.

A survey of over 1,000 UK parents showed they overwhelmingly valued time with their family over material wealth. If given the chance between working the whole weekend to put money away for a new car and spending the weekend with your family, opt for the one that will make you happier.