I have realized that many women avoid weightlifting. They often think that they will instantly bulk up and look like this ; While I understand that many men and women don't like that type of look on a lady , do people really think that the woman in the pic lifts exactly like you do? No. It takes years of training, giving up so many foods and perhaps even steroid usage to look like her.
The reality is that many women who lift on a regular basis, eat clean and don't take useless suplements will only be able to look like this at their max ;And by losing some fat, like this ;So i get it that most men dont find muscular women attractive but why do we try to limit somebody else's action just because they look "good" to us. And ladies, if you want to lift, DO IT. There is nothing wrong with getting stronger, fitter and achieving the look you are going for. Whether it's lean, thick, muscular or whatever.
Why is there such a strong stigma against women who weightlift?
"And ladies, if you want to lift, DO IT. There is nothing wrong with getting stronger, fitter and achieving the look you are going for." I couldn't have said it better myself.
I think the problem is women have been taught to believe that lifting weights is "unfeminine," not to mention some of the fools out there that say muscular, strong women aren't attractive.
So it's okay for a man to be strong, but not a woman? Yeah okay... good thing I don't care what others think about my body 🙄
Fyi: most women that lift weights do it for themselves, NOT to impress others or get a man.
I've been lifting weights for about...3-4 years now? And I love it! I feel stronger, healthier, and better about myself. It tones you up and gives you a lean figure! And ladies, lifting weights WILL NOT bulk you up or make you look masculine! Unless you take hormones or have an unusually large amount of testosterone, you won't look like a man.
I really wish more women would embrace weight training. You don't even have to lift really heavy weights to see and feel results, just be consistent and eat a balanced diet.
I know some don't like it, but I'm more into why it's something anybody find attactive, muscle have always been horrible to watch, a person with muscel seem to be awkward and a person with no real life , a person who can't set up goals for life, as it is a total lack of prioritization in life to build completely unnecessary muscles. But this applies to both sexes. In our time it's a waste of time to build muscle, and it's pretty useless and look horrible too. Most people who try to build muscle have a little self-esteem, and muscle don't change it at all
@6suejsjsj goles !!! I don't run my life a a sport event, and nor do my lovely hubby either, to you info insecurity forced me to doing gym and CrossFit 20 of my life, until I met my 13 year older hubby, he's never in an age of now 57 year , been into a gym center and he's arms are not wider than my wrist, but do you know what... I really love him for not being fake at all, or eating he's time being another than god created him for. And I just love not going to gym, as he never Seems to noticed my artificial muscle , build by wasting 1000000 hours , I could have used to enjoy life instead of sitting in s gym and posting pictures about how fit I were. Just my opinion
I've encountered the same attitude and I find it hilarious.
"Oh, I don't want to get all big and bulky!"
It's like, "Yeah guess what, that would take you at least seven years to even build a base for achieving that, and that would include completely changing your diet, reading and studying several textbooks worth of information, and putting in roughly 20,000 hours of intensive training, and that's if you were a man, with a man's testosterone levels."
But it makes sense why these girls usually expect men to all be muscular like that, and why they look down on guys with a normal physique, since apparently they think it only takes a month or two to get ripped and massive.
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Yeah.. if i had a dollar for every time i heard a woman say that
Because it does not conform to "societys" out life of what women should be or beauty standards. More or less its yet another example of group think and social engineering. Also it does cause a lot of men to question their own masculinity. Always a bonus. Because a real man would be comfortable in his own masculinity to the point that they don't question it.
Honestly find me a woman who I can form a mental connection with and would participate with me in the Highland Games with me, I might start thinking that marriage isn't such a bad idea. lol
Mate, sorry to use your reply as a crutch but, asker, don't ask opinions if you remove ones that simply disagree with you a little bit, I'm a tad butthurt :3
My point was that women tend to project their own fears and you replied that women come to you scared that they'll look ugly to men. If I am humiliating myself then you are delusional õ. Õ
I have no problem with women staying in shape. (I digress for a moment)) The thing is that many women are under the (mistaken) notion that if they exercise, they will turn into a musclebound clod. They won't ,
my husband workout a lot and he meets a lot of females that does the same and he tells me how much hate they get in the streets at work and social media that they look like men and many other mean words he is a part of community he and some others created to support natural female body builders and they did make a female body builder local event in stockholm last year and it got massive success and its none beneficial but they got some sponsors but everything got canceled because of covid but they will make it next year hoping i dont workout but i do support women who wnats to be body builders and i think its beautiful because they are working hard and it makes them feel glorious and for that is what counts i respect all women that work out and maybe one day i will workout too
Hmm I think them people are just trying to show if, you always se people from a bodybuilder place taking selfies, wonder why , to be so In to you body and want to show off ask the time must be sick. Well most I Denmark do think that. Far to much exponent to other
i dont know about that part my husband never post foto of him self working out or flex but i can't speak for the girls and many of them dont even have instagram accounts that i know.
Hmm perhaps I just regonised far too late I'd wasted my time in gym, when I met my dream guy , 11-12 years ago, and he didn't even notice my fit body, and he him self never done a second gym or anything else sport, except playing bridge and chess, and he's daddy body just trill me, 10-15 kg overweight, but fine and the part he never gave a shit about it, and never were embarrassed by standing beside me , I'm 204 cm tall and were fit as hell, and my weight were like he's but I my muscle, he never noticed my body shap ( well my height as most men find attractive) and never mentioned how fit u were, he just said that he thought bodybuilding were a complete waste of time, unless a doctor prescribed gym as a treatment, and no doctor do, as the bodybuilding community is full of drug and anabolic drugs , witch give a sad thing
@Petra150 ofcourse when you meet the one that dont cares about body shape but care about personality and chemistry is always a winner. my husband never took a drug or a shake for the workouts and he is diabetic already and works out a lot because he has to stay in shape and good health while i have about 15 or 20 kilos overweight plus he has some genetic obesity so if he dont workout in 2 months he can gain 3 kilos even if he eats right. my husband is clean from drug using when it comes to gym but he have to take insulin for his diabetes
My hubby too have diabetes type 2, and too high blood pressure too, but still I couldn't ever try to persuade him to hit a gym, as it will be as I'm insinuating I don't find him attractive , and knowing them types most are in our trainings centres, I know what he will think too. And to be honest it really puzzle me what causes a normal human being to use so much time away from you family day out and in, afterall youl be so excousted when gym is over that you'll need a lot of time resting, and you'll be nagging and tired all evening and not much use , when you'd been training just to try to look better, and for what reasons do you do it... Pure egoism in my point of view, I knew exactly why I wasted all that time in a gym center just to try to become more attractive, so when I found out what kind of people who thought I were attractive, I'd noticed they didn't want me for my persoo but for my body, I also woke up, but it took me a time to get use to have all that ekstra time and for syre nich more energi as i wasn't tired all my spare time, while when I trained I were tired and pretty annoying all time. And I'd guess most people must feel the same, so it's really a puzzle to me, and I'd been there myself for far far too long
@Petra150 as long you two are happy with it there is always two sides of one thing. i dont care if my husband was fat or not but he do workout to stay healthy and his body can real go bad if he doesn't take care of it. thanks for sharing its nice to hear from other peoples angles
My properly should too, my BMI is under 16 so fit as hell myself, and a little advantages being insane tall us , I'll never seen far though I'm 5 kg heavier than my hubby , he's 81 kg as. Look a little fat or at least daddy shaped, while I weigh 96 kg, and are cut as hell
I don't want to "limit anybodies action." It's fine with me if women want to lift weights, feel free.
I just don't find muscular women attractive, to me its gross. They look like wimpy male bodybuilders.
If they just want to do it to keep themselves healthy I think it's great.
But either way if that's what they want, that's their business not mine.
Personally, I find women who are soft and not too firm to be more attractive. Not fat, just soft. Women naturally have a higher percentage of body fat than men. There are biological reasons for that. It's their natural body. And to me it is more attractive.
I think it's because people think big muscles are masculine and it's not something they like on women.
People can do what they want and there's nothing wrong with taking care of yourself and working out, it's totally fine, but I don't think women find it attractive when a guy is overly big/lean either.
There is no "stigma" - it's just medically dangerous for women to go on the shred like men can, Not only does it affect your biology and hormones, but you could cause irreversible damage to your organs and mental health.
I'm not talking steroids - a whole world of wrong in itself, but the testosterone imbalance required for a woman to build mass. Sure getting fit and athletic is a good look for some. But as any elite female athlete will tell you, testosterone and it's supplements will make you go nuts over time.
It's one reason so few female athletes remain pro into their 30's - they just can't cope with the mental and physical toll.
I've been strength training intensively for overc3 years and I'm still pretty skinny.
Lean muscle grows in the context of your bone structure.
I suspect people become 'big' when they consume too many calories, do the wrong types of exercise, eat too many fats and ani. al products or take steroids. I eat mostly vegetarian.
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Not sure if there are still is. Here in Germany many young women who want to keep up their hot looks do work out with weights. It is no longer the simple cliché "men lift, women do cardio". Some men of course like be be simply ignorant about the female body or things in general, but that is mirrored by females in other areas when it comes to what males are supposed to do / not to do.
In General most time in a gym or CrossFit is a waste of time, I found out while I'd used more than 20 year lifting and CrossFit, due to I thought it would benefit from my back, as I'm ekstremly tall I wrongly thought a stronger body made my back strong too, and I thought my body would appear more attractive to guys. But when I met my hubby , he didn't even notice my fit body, and I found out he'd never been at a gym or ever lifted a weight he's entire life. And to be honest he look fantastic , a daddy body , overarms not bigger than my wrist, and 10-12 kg overweight, and he never had a day of for sickness, while the guys at our job who do a lot of gym, are of with pain and sick every month. So he finally persuade me to stop wasting my time trying to create an artificial body
I love muscular women! The only big factor in it is how the woman sculpts herself. There are good and bad ways to do anything. The girl you see in this picture is very beautiful to me. She has great definition and manly women just look good to me, especially when they have pecs or almost do.
There are some fine lines, and there are some guys who really go for muscular women. Athletic is much better than muscular, in general, in the eyes of most guys. Being fit and healthy nearly always is more attractive, but just a bit of body fat can make all the difference on a hard layer of muscles.
Personally I like women who lift. My last one did and she was built more like the woman in the black dress you pointed out. Granted, her arms were a bit more nicely defined. Also, women who lift tend to have a better sexual stamina than than those who do not. At least from my experience.
No issues I have an issue with a woman taking steroids tho. And alotnof women who weight lift take them. Even if it's just a small enhancement.
One, it's a lie. Second, it makes them look ridicules
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I find strong women to be hot, but if she is too toned, I find it less visually appealing. If she looked like the second woman, but could outlift most men, that would be the winner. I still want to be strongest, but strong woman are beautiful. I don't mind skinny women either, but if she looks too muscular, then it's a turn off.
1. People would rather watch some stupid show than read anything to have more knowledge 2. The average person is lazy and men want to feel strong, so they would rather weaken women by discouraging them to improve their physique than do something to improve their own body.
Because women who go overboard look like dudes. This happens when you lose too much body fat & your face becomes mannish. Your breasts melt away. Most of the physical traits that socially define you as female diminish or vanish.
Couple that with any competition with men & you have a toxic soup. Sort of the flip side of a dude putting on a wig & lipstick and demanding that you let him breastfeed your baby with his dry nipple.
It can look masculine BUT I much rather sleep with a girl who weightlifts vs a BBW. She can easily lose that muscle just by not lifting and doing cardio. A BBW has a very long ways to go before she can look good. One works hard the other is lazy.
There isn't-- there's stigma against females looking like ^ the chick in that first pic, as in, being a female BODY BUILDER. Simple weightlifting to get fit is a good thing. It's just when it's taken to a massive extreme that guys don't like it.
I have no problem with women lifting weights and those that do it for their health are better off. I am not attracted to masculine women though so if they venture into that area I am not interested in them any longer.
No idea. Do your thing because it's your passion, not because somebody dictates you to. Much like I don't want to make tons of money because women want me to (no. I do it for myself).
Bodybuilding is for both men and women. The sterotypes needs to be changed and now a days its changing. My wife is doing bodybuilding from 3 years and i support her.
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