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Yes very much so. I'd see them at the gym putting in work and Idk I liked and respected it. Especially certain exercises
I wouldn't say it increased my attraction. I don't know I could be any more attracted than I am already, lol. But it did give me new appreciation and respect for just how strong some of these girls are.
When I see a 5-ft-3 20-something blonde girl throwing 65 lb dumbbells around the way I handle 30's, it's an odd, but wonderful combination of arousal, excitement and respect that I feel. Maybe a little jealousy too hahaha.
Actually my attraction to muscular women increased my need to get into fitness.
American Gladiators in the 1980's introduced me to the idea of muscular, feminine women. Gym training for sports, and face-to-face inreraction with mid-90's aerobics, bodyshaping, fbb and gym rats in the actual gym made 'chasing the pump' MUCH more fun.
Attraction is largely what you see and focus on daily, so being on GWM and lifting at the gym reinforce each other.
Besides, gym girls all have amazing asses...and I'm definitely an ass man! :-)
No, it didn't increase it (I don't think an increase is possible), but it did make dating muscular women a lot easier.
The more muscular I got, the less often I had to make the first move to talk to a muscular woman. I can't count the number of times I've seen someone who interested me and before I could work up my nerve they came and started a conversation with me.
Nope, even before I started taking the gym seriously, there was always an attraction for FBBs. Once I traded the bballl sneakers for gym shoes, I was exposed to more
Less attractive.
Don't get me wrong, I still see muscular women as more attractive than any other. I was attracted to muscle from a very young age, but didn't start lifting until high school (and only really got decent after college).
However, I learned a harsh lesson: some people just "have it", others don't. I don't just mean genetics. I'm talking all of the life factors that go into one's success in fitness. Genetics, money, upbringing, personality, a support network, and more.
I have below average genetics, a decent financial situation, but pretty much none of the other success factors that most women here have. Compared to other men who lift as consistently as I do, I'm probably in the bottom 20%. Not necessarily horrible - I am conventionally attractive but not to the point where I can be a male model. I am also much stronger and fitter than the average American, and almost all of my friends. I invested a lot of my energy and made profound positive changes to my life. But I just won't ever be at the level of most people in the fitness circles that the women here participate in.
All of that said, my own struggles with lifting have really made me jaded with the fitness community. Women who sponsor supplements or other fitness fads like cupping with the implication that they are the key to success come across as profoundly dishonest to me. I have more tolerance for this now, because I realize they need the money, but I can never shake the feeling.
Some (not all) of the models also come across as incredibly narcissistic now. Every time I see motivational platitudes, I just can't help but roll my eyes. The biggest item on my shitlist is when someone implies that everyone not on their level is weaker willed or weaker in character. That pretty much destroys my image of that person forever. I never read the associated text with an instagram post precisely for this reason. It's 99% of the same overdone claptrap.
Say what you will about talent versus hard work, but I have been on both sides. I was top of my class in two STEM degrees, and not because I worked the hardest. It's really no different from lifting. For some people, it just comes naturally. In the past, I saw muscles on women as a powerful sign of strength of character, confidence, and more. I still see it that way to a degree, but I also see it as a natural physical trait like height, and eye/hair color.
So, in a sad way, lifting has made me lose the naive admiration of the implied character traits of a muscular woman. It's now more superficial instead of being holistic.
I started lifting in college so I wouldn't end up like my father who died at 51 due to a sedentary lifestyle, or my mother who has been morbidly obese for my whole life. I've been the skinny, nerdy awkward guy and the six foot semi-handsome guy with a thick chest, big ass, and broad shoulders at different points in time.
Getting bigger changed the way people react to me. Even on the job, I think it makes a certain positive impression. Women look at me differently now, and they're often just as shallow as they like to say we are. I've also had similar experiences with fitness types like you describe.
Some people aren't training to get healthy, but to compensate for whatever trauma and lack of love/attention they experienced earlier in life. You talk to anyone long enough, especially if you look ripped enough to blend in and be accepted as part of the "tribe", and some of those borderline/narcissistic traits really shine through, in men and women.
Less attractive.
Don't get me wrong, I still see muscular women as more attractive than any other. I was attracted to muscle from a very young age, but didn't start lifting until high school (and only really got decent after college).
However, I learned a harsh lesson: some people just "have it", others don't. I don't just mean genetics. I'm talking all of the life factors that go into one's success in fitness. Genetics, money, upbringing, personality, a support network, and more.
I have below average genetics, a decent financial situation, but pretty much none of the other success factors that most women here have. Compared to other men who lift as consistently as I do, I'm probably in the bottom 20%. Not necessarily horrible - I am conventionally attractive but not to the point where I can be a male model. I am also much stronger and fitter than the average American, and almost all of my friends. I invested a lot of my energy and made profound positive changes to my life. But I just won't ever be at the level of most people in the fitness circles that the women here participate in.
All of that said, my own struggles with lifting have really made me jaded with the fitness community. Women who sponsor supplements or other fitness fads like cupping with the implication that they are the key to success come across as profoundly dishonest to me. I have more tolerance for this now, because I realize they need the money, but I can never shake the feeling.
Some (not all) of the models also come across as incredibly narcissistic now. Every time I see motivational platitudes, I just can't help but roll my eyes. The biggest item on my shitlist is when someone implies that everyone not on their level is weaker willed or weaker in character. That pretty much destroys my image of that person forever. I never read the associated text with an instagram post precisely for this reason. It's 99% of the same overdone claptrap.
Say what you will about talent versus hard work, but I have been on both sides. I was top of my class in two STEM degrees, and not because I worked the hardest. It's really no different from lifting. For some people, it just comes naturally. In the past, I saw muscles on women as a powerful sign of strength of character, confidence, and more. I still see it that way to a degree, but I also see it as a natural physical trait like height, and eye/hair color.
So, in a sad way, lifting has made me lose the naive admiration of the implied character traits of a muscular woman. It's now more superficial instead of being holistic.
What does implied character have to do with the physical, aesthetic appeal of a GWM, and why is it 'naive'? Of course it's superficial, probably none of us on this site have met the objects of our desire on GWM.
It sounds like you're frustrated that you couldn't get a GWM, and am blaming your genetics on lack of muscle-building. You come off sounding extremely bitter because physical pursuits didn't work out, and then retreating behind a double-layered science, technology, engineering, and mathematical wall of intellectual superiority.
Yeah, we get it. We're all different, but do you have to attack other people's enjoyment, because yours has been soured?!
I have always liked muscular women so when I started lifting when I was younger it was a definite push. When I was younger I even found it a huge turn on if a girl was more muscular or stronger than me. As I have gotten older and started bodybuilding all that has changed. I still like muscular women obviously but not in the same way I guess. I'm much less submissive now and frankly there aren't really any women as strong as me at this point. I have become more of a switch so my submissive side prefers not only muscular women but in general more jockish girls. Now at the gym I honestly don't pay much mind to the fit girls as much because I'm more focused on prep