Well I fail

Now I’m not being defeatist but no matter how much I’ve worked out my whole childhood/life, I’ve never had muscle definition.  I may of been able to leg press 750 lbs comfortably, and bench twice my own weight easily.  But the muscle tone never showed.  I’m one of those stringy guys who didn’t look as strong as I was.

Well huge grasp of the obvious, they are reporting that women are attracted to muscle tone…

Muscular young men are likely to have more sex partners than their less-chiseled peers, researchers at the University of California Los Angeles said on Monday.

Their study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggests muscles in men are akin to elaborate tail feathers in male peacocks: They attract females looking for a virile mate.

“Women are
predisposed
to prefer
muscularity in menWomen are predisposed to prefer muscularity in men,” said study author David Frederick of UCLA.

“Most research is focused on what men find physically attractive in women and the career traits women find attractive in men,” Frederick said by telephone. “Much less research is devoted to what women find attractive.”

He said prior studies concluded a man’s desirability was influenced more by his earning potential and commitment. His study found physical characteristics mattered more.

Women were more physically attracted to brawny men, especially for a fling. But when it comes to finding a long-term partner, they tend to pick a regular man over a mate with huge biceps.

“On the one hand, it makes them more
sexy to
women. On the
other hand, it makes
women more suspicious about their romantic intentionsOn the one hand, it makes them more sexy to women. On the other hand, it makes women more suspicious about their romantic intentions,” Frederick said.

He and colleagues interviewed 99 male undergraduates about their sexual histories. Muscular men were twice as likely to have had more than three sex partners than less-built types.

Frederick and colleagues also asked 141 college women to look at six standardized silhouettes of men ranging from brawny to slender. Most preferred a toned man who was more likely to commit over a muscle-bound man they perceived as more volatile, aggressive and dominant.

[Reuters]

Well like I said it wasn’t bolt out of the blue amazing… but I still say that this may be true with a certain subset of the female population.  But not true over all.

I like eye candy that’s true, but that only goes so far and I normally just give it a point compared to the whole package.

Karen

This isn’t the first woman to roughly tell me the same thing.  I wonder at times where the researchers get their test subjects…  Also if this isn’t a case that its age relevant.

Tags: Interesting, Psychology, Sex