Why are fit women so uncommon?

Question

I mean women who look like they lift a bit, you skinny women who just do cardio, but I'm not talking about that. Is it a fear of getting too much muscles? Or its just natural for guys to want to lift heavy weights?

Answer 1

HomoFuge

Explorer

Men and women’s bodies are built differently. A man can easily gain a huge amount of muscle within 6 months. However, for women the process of muscle gain is incredibly slow and arduous. As someone else said, it could take at least 2 years for women to see a significant amount of muscle development.

For a lot of women they get put off by the slow progress. They feel that they are not making any progress at all and are wasting their time exercising. So, they give it up.

However, they need to see that they probably have made progress in some way. If you are lifting more than you could when you first started training then that is a sign that you have gained some strength. Becoming stronger is the first step in gaining muscle. Once you have gained some strength the muscle growth will occur as well.

I think Instagram has led a lot of women to have unrealistic expectations of what their body will look like if they lift weights. You can only grow as much muscle as your genetic potential allows you to.

Asker

7 mo
That's a really good answer. Thank you.

Answer 2

Asker

That's a really good answer. Thank you.

Answer 3

emmily2396 | 172 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

Yoda

I am here. Most are just ignorant. Women are actually discouraged from getting fit. You have no idea how much judgement I get, especially from other women. I have naturally thicker legs than the rest of my body and since I started fitness I get comments that I should lift less, when in fact they are insulting my natural looks. I am not deformed or anything, but my upper body is tiny and skinny while my lower body is fatter and looks stronger. It alwways looked like that, fitness or not. However, I find it funny how they have saggy butt and straight legs with cellulite and tell me how much I should exercise.

So far lifting only changed a bit the shape of my body parts. Growing muscle as a girl is extremely difficult. It took me like half a year to see a difference just in shape and guys see results in like 2 months.

Asker

7 mo
Good for you. That's interesting, so there is pressure from other girls to not lift, I've never thought about that. Keep doing what you are doing, there should be more girls like you. I actually didn't see results for close to a year i was fucking up with the nutrition side of things lol, but yeah of course it's easier to see a difference when you are a guy.
emmily2396

7 mo
They have the false conception that they are going to get bulky if they lift heavy, they are also projecting their own insecurities on me. The girl calling on my legs being too big is bottom heavy too. I have gained a bit of weight lately, so my built may be more noticeable now, but I can always get thinner. She is quite insecure on her own body being bottom heavy so she projected that on me.
In reality lifting weight will just reduce their cellulite and give their body a smoother and more lifted appearance.

Answer 4

Asker

Good for you. That's interesting, so there is pressure from other girls to not lift, I've never thought about that. Keep doing what you are doing, there should be more girls like you. I actually didn't see results for close to a year i was fucking up with the nutrition side of things lol, but yeah of course it's easier to see a difference when you are a guy.

Answer 5

emmily2396

They have the false conception that they are going to get bulky if they lift heavy, they are also projecting their own insecurities on me. The girl calling on my legs being too big is bottom heavy too. I have gained a bit of weight lately, so my built may be more noticeable now, but I can always get thinner. She is quite insecure on her own body being bottom heavy so she projected that on me.
In reality lifting weight will just reduce their cellulite and give their body a smoother and more lifted appearance.

Answer 6

Reaperbot666 | 78 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

Yoda

Muscle on a woman can be a good thing. However bulky huge muscles to where it looks like they take drugs. Are typically a turn off for me.

Toned lean and fit is better in my mind. For a woman that wants to be that way.

Then again so long as she is generally healthy size, weight or height are not really an issue for me.

Asker

7 mo
Agree with everything you said, but didn't really answer the question.

Answer 7

Asker

Agree with everything you said, but didn't really answer the question.

Answer 8

Thatsamazing | 511 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

Guru

Fuck that girl is hot. And it's uncommon because being fit is *hard,* and people (especially girls, when it comes to fitness anyway) are fucking lazy. And people don't like to eat nutritiously-- we like to eat bullshit like potato chips and frozen dinners. Everyone knows this.

Asker

7 mo
Ikr, so hot. Yeah I agree with you, do you think some of it is down to girls thinking you have to be skinny to be attractive
Thatsamazing

7 mo
Girls DO have to be fit/slim in order to be attractive. I dunno what you mean.

Answer 9

Asker

Ikr, so hot. Yeah I agree with you, do you think some of it is down to girls thinking you have to be skinny to be attractive

Answer 10

Thatsamazing

Girls DO have to be fit/slim in order to be attractive. I dunno what you mean.

Answer 11

Cynicaldreamer | 424 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

Guru

Minus the abs (her are more defined than mine are), I look just like that! Yes, really.

As for why muscular women are so rare? Most women rather not have muscles or they assume lifting weights will make them look "masculine." 🙄

... yeah I lift weights regularly, heavy weights, and I don't look manly at all.

Asker

7 mo
Thats great! You have a hot body. Is that excuse just a cop out? Or do you think women still actually believe that?
Cynicaldreamer

7 mo
I think it's a little of both. Sadly women, even myself, were raised to teach that lifting weights will bulk us up or make us bigger, masculine.

Whereas most women do cardio because we've been brainwashed into believing that's how you lose weight. Which yes, cardio DOES help! But strength training not only speeds up our metabolism, but helps give us a sexy, toned figure!

I will admit I used to avoid weights too until doing just cardio made my weight plateau. I added in hiit and weight training? That made a huge difference!!! 💪
Asker

7 mo
Yes, that's sad. Maybe that will change some day and yeah HIIT is great.

Answer 12

Asker

Thats great! You have a hot body. Is that excuse just a cop out? Or do you think women still actually believe that?

Answer 13

Cynicaldreamer

I think it's a little of both. Sadly women, even myself, were raised to teach that lifting weights will bulk us up or make us bigger, masculine.

Whereas most women do cardio because we've been brainwashed into believing that's how you lose weight. Which yes, cardio DOES help! But strength training not only speeds up our metabolism, but helps give us a sexy, toned figure!

I will admit I used to avoid weights too until doing just cardio made my weight plateau. I added in hiit and weight training? That made a huge difference!!! 💪

Answer 14

Asker

Yes, that's sad. Maybe that will change some day and yeah HIIT is great.

Answer 15

saeyamazaki

Xper 7

First, I think your question is not really phrased in the best way. I'm fit but I don't like her at all. If you mean why are muscluar women so uncommon, then I guess it's because some women don't like that. I don't know.

saeyamazaki

7 mo
*look like her
Asker

7 mo
I agree, I should've phrased it differently. So you think its because dont want to look that way?
saeyamazaki

7 mo
To me personally, I don’t consider that body type nice
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Asker

7 mo
Interesting. Thanks for your opinion.

Answer 16

saeyamazaki

*look like her

Answer 17

Asker

I agree, I should've phrased it differently. So you think its because dont want to look that way?

Answer 18

saeyamazaki

To me personally, I don’t consider that body type nice

Answer 19

Asker

Interesting. Thanks for your opinion.

Answer 20

Missliminal

Xper 1

It’s not what is sold to us as “attractive”
And I mean exactly that— sold. By the beauty and fashion industry. There was a fascinating study published in Maxim, where men built the “ideal” woman in photoshop, that took the traits of various public figures and combined them. Women were asked to build what they thought the men would make. The differences were interesting.

Asker

7 mo
Interestin

Answer 21

Asker

Interestin

Answer 22

cavmanier | 610 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

Master

The reason is a combination of that body type not being something sexually appealing to strive for and for women that do strive to look that way, they just don't have the genetics to get there like men do.

Answer 23

_SOARER_

Xper 6

Well you have an arbitrary standard for fit women
Almost no women will fit your fitness definition

What makes someone fit? Is it merely muscle mass?
Or is it cardio?
Is it excelling in a particular athletic sport?
Is it a combination of all 3?

Do you see where I am getting at. Most women just rely on basic exercise and genetics to consider themselves fit and that's fine

Answer 24

CubsterShura | 281 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

Guru

There are plenty of fit women out there, it's just that you only like one specific kind of fit. Women were for before bodybuilding was a thing. Because women could step out of their houses and move about in free clothing.