Why do Women's Fitness magazines and some Women's magazines tell women that having ripped muscles is sexy?

Not everything women do is about being sexy for men. Some womens magazines like Cosmopolitan are all about this, but fitness magazines are for women who want to be fit and healthy. Having a reasonable amount of muscle tone is healthy.

No idea, as a straight male I do not find this atractive.

I’ve met many guys that think fit women are sexy. Yes, they were athletic and fit.

It kind of sounds like you’re saying un-fit men wouldn’t be attracted to fit women, and that you are not attracted to fit women, therefore you are un-fit. Whatever.

Just because you value your health, exercise regularly, have some muscle tone, and are fit doesn’t make you a lesbian body builder. Sheesh, the ignorance.

I need strength to do the things I like to do, and you can’t have it without some muscle.

There is a difference between this and this.

I think those videos are directed for lesbians that want to look more manlike

@Haleth
Wait are you saying that women have another purpose other than serving men?
no wonder dinner is always cold

Beats me.
It’s totally unnatural. I mean, if it were, since I’m a girl drummer, I’d have the most ripped arms in the world. But I don’t so I really don’t know how some women achieve it and why some women desire it.

But at least it’s a step in the right direction from telling women that we have to look like walking skeletons.

I like a flat belly and a toned butt but still curvy. I saw a woman being trained by a female bodybuilder and this woman looked like a man. It was scary.

I don’t think he is unhealthy and unfit, one thing is being toned and have normal muscle but I know what @joscketSeper means, have you seen lady gaga’s telephone video, the guards? that’s ripped! ;)

I would think the majority of males would not find a ripped/toned women any sexy.

Those magazines are not aimed at the majority of males.

Those magazines are aimed at women who want to be ripped/toned.

I knew a woman who was a competitive bodybuilder.She was ripped and never had a problem getting dates.To each their own I suppose.Those magazines are geared towards women who want to keep in shape…not such a bad thng ;)

Because it’s their opinion.
I would gladly trade my muscular frame for a more slender one =\

What magazines are we talking about here? Body Builder Weekly or Women’s Fitness?

There is nothing unhealthy or unattractive about these, and they are not targeting women that want to be ripped / toned. They are targeting women that want to be fit and healthy.

People prefer different things.

Are you upset that some magazines cater to fit people? You can choose to ignore them.

Are you upset because you think women are being ‘brainwashed’ by this crap? We have minds of our own, and think for ourselves.

Fitness and health go hand in hand. Would you rather magazines recommend fattening up?

@lilikoi
Not at all. They’re tight and right.. But this is tres sexy
This is just scary

OH GOD I totally regret clicking on that second one. Gross!!!

There is only one way a female can get ripped muscles: anabolic steroids and testosterone injections. Ten years after the usage, they will be sickly, diabetic, fat without muscle tone and suffer impaired immune systems. Heavy users often present with clitoral hypertrophy (serious, no joke here.) Ripped women are not healthy, or natural and they invariably die in middle age. As far as finding them sexy, well, that’s up to individual tastes. There is a whole industry built around this, so there must be a lot of people who enjoy looking at women with these kinds of bodies.

Good diet and exercise, including aerobics, weight lifting and yoga will produce a well nourished, moderately muscled body with a flat stomach, slightly defined abs and other muscle groups appropriate to the body type. Only steroids and hormones can produce the ripped, veiny, high-def muscularity that men can attain by exercise alone. Women are fighting against two extra layers of protective fat, estrogen and progesterone in amounts not found in the male. And a lesser amount of testosterone.

hey Espiritus well when i say ripped.. i mean defined abs moderately muscled body that many women can achieve without any steroids. For example girls who play basketball and baseball. They look tomboyish and they have muscles.

Those women don’t use steroids

Oh, OK. We have different definitions of “ripped.” I find athletic, healthy women extremely attractive.

@SeventhSense I told you not to show people the pic I sent to you of me at the beach.~

Aren’t you the poster who complains you can’t even get a date or response from e-mailing women? I don’t think you have any idea of what irl men find attractive and your complaints aren’t going to get you any dates.

There’s also a difference between fitness models (hot) and bodybuilders (who can rip your d!ck off with their inner thigh muscles). Bodybuilders typically use hormones to help achieve their goals. I think Jamie Eason and Ava Cowan are pretty hot, but it also depends on where they are in their cycle. For photoshoots where they lean out, they cut down with meager diets, restrict water intake, and increase sodium to pull water from the skin to look as ripped as they do. They don’t always look like that. When a woman is getting married, does she crash diet to look good for herself, or does she do it to look good for that one day, which also happens to be the day she starts to let go (men agree). Ava has a few pics where her ab muscles look like they could punch you in the face. It’s a bit much, but in the off season, she’s good looking with drive, which is a good combo.

@lilikoi Everyone has different tastes and i like trim women, but the women on the magazine covers are not at all attractive to me. The question asked about even more extreme, ripped sixpacks, so these magazine covers don’t even apply. I care for neither, ripped or just real flat and real hard. Too much like a man for me. But even that doesn’t matter. The magazines show the pics that will sell magazines to women…period. The question doesn’t ask what is right or wrong and it doesn’t even ask for a woman’s opinion. It asks other men what we like in a woman’s shape. That’s all.

I don’t understand that either. Personally, as a straight male, I don’t find muscular, “ripped” women attractive at all. And I think most other men don’t either. They may be fit, but they’re not sexy. Quite the opposite. Mannish-looking women remind me of adolescent boys. Yeech!

@MRSHINYSHOES On the money…..

I knew a muscle head gym rat…she was all consumed over fat grams this fat grams that…Every guy she dated had to have the same muscle head mind set or they were not worthy!! Kinda whacked IMO!...

@chyna LOL re your comment to @SeventhSense

Because a woman who can lift her own 50llb bag of dog food without crying like a child is sexy. Because a woman who can keep up on the trail and carry her own 100llb pack is sexy. A woman who is strong enough to stand on her own and strong enough to get her own shit done is damn sexy.

Who cares what men like?
Its a WOMEN’S magazine.
The world doesn’t revolve around pleasing you, just so you know.

@gemiwing Thanks….didnt realize those things were sexy. Admirable, but sexy just didnt click with me.

@meagan ummmmm….the question was addressed to men and asked what they like.

@plethora “I just think the women who do decide to get ripped and muscled either don’t care anymore about men and just want to live for themselves( and that’s good for them if they want that) and are willing to accept the fact that they won’t be seen as attractive,”

@meagan Ahh..OK…thanks for the clarification…had forgotten he had that in the commentary on his question.

@plethora No biggie

@plethora Sexy is as varied as beauty.

@chyna
Kim,
I’m sorry
I didn’t mean to embarass you. I know how shy you are about that suit.

To each their own. You don’t find it sexy. Many men do. The end.

@Likeradar Correction—-“some” men do.

@SeventhSense Semantics, but I’ll give it to ya.

@Likeradar
Huh? I suppose that was directed at MRSHINYSHOES

@SeventhSense Yeah, sorry. :)