Voted indifferent, but I think from the photo you linked a little less than that would be better, but I wouldn’t so far as to call it repulsive, but it is leaning that way.
Why the hate for bulging veins?
I don’t know but I have found that for me, a male, they seem to be a source of attraction-albeit not a major one-for females, in real life. Probably because you can’t have bulging veins without very low body fat and good muscle tone. I have also found that online, women seem to say that such attributes are a definite turn-off. I won’t speak to the possible reasons for this disparity.
I find her unattractive (but not repulsive) in the OP but she’s great in the video you linked. I seriously doubt the girl you see in that video walks into a gym, works out for several hours and comes out looking like she does in the picture in the OP. More likely the pictures were taken at least months apart at different points in her training season. It’s exactly what Ambivalid is always harping on about, with bodybuilders going from alien-looking to normal-looking when they’re in off-season or whatever.
You’ve posted pics of yourself on the forum before. No offense; you’d get your ass handed to you. 
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Slight nitpick…But this is only true of non-natural bodybuilders. It is due to the water-retention effects of certain steroids that necessitates this dehydrating. Natural, drug-tested bodybuilders do not dehydrate at any point pre-contest (or at least they shouldnt).
Because nobody looks at an attractive woman and says “Gee, look at the circulatory system on her!”
Bulging veins are not something I associate with healthy people - you’d be more inclined to imagine them on someone about to give themselves a heart attack - and aren’t attractive in their own right.
What ever floats your boat.
I’m attracted to the traditional female form; slender and curvy. Not hulking and massive.
In cardio you bet! I’ve got no gym-style endurance at all (though for some reason I can work all day physically- it’s mental I’m sure of it). Hell, she’d probably whup me good at a bunch of iso weight exercises as well. My training has been focused on just mass and power, so I don’t really care about definition or body sculpting. I train my muscle groups to work together rather than isolating them for specific gains. In pure power we are probably about equal, and I find that sexy.
Exactly. The women in the video (one or two of whom are actually pretty slight) are strong, fit women. And there’s more to weightlifting than muscle mass – there’s technique to be learned, too. I don’t doubt that I am, on the simplest level, as strong as some of those women (I’m a 6’2" man, and I’ve done plenty of manual labor in my life, unloading trucks, swinging a sledgehammer, and the like), but I doubt if I could do what they’re doing with those weights.
The bodybuilders, on the other hand, creep me out. Male and female. They’re making their bodies into some weird sculpture that goes far beyond anything I could ever be sexually attracted to (I’m straight, so I guess I’m mostly talking about women, but the male bodybuilders creep me out too). That becomes doubly true when steroids enter into the picture. There’s no doubt that the drugs have a masculinizing effect on women when used at that leve.
It’s possible. I don’t know the dates of the picture vs. the video. But I do know that this before and after shot of a dude spans only 5 hours. You’d be surprised at how quickly a body can lose definition.
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I think the point is that muscles that would be unusually large and defined on a male strike many of us as hypermasculine. From past threads it has been apparent that hypermasculine is not even considered attractive on males to many women (masculine, yes, hypermasculine, no).
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This does not mean that an attractive woman cannot remain attractive even with those features. Obviously attraction is more than one physical aspect or even just physical aspects. Or that fit is not attractive.
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All that said I also wonder what degree my male insecurity might factor in. Is there any role to my feeling threatened by a woman who looks stronger and more masculine than I do? I have no problem being the family cook, cleaning up in equal amounts, and taking on other so-called traditionally female roles, and no problem loving a woman who I think is in most ways my intellectual equal and my better in some … but physically more masculine than me? That could play a role in the distaste as well. Maybe.
Those are some very deceptive “before and after” pics. They aren’t the same shot; one is a full-on frontal and the other is a side profile. One is of the guy oiled and tanned and the other is of the guy pale, hairy and purposely pushing his gut out. You’d be surprised how easily pictures can be manipulated.
What, handicap parking? 
Oh yes, I’m quite familiar with the process. It’s from this video. The point remains the same that you can’t look at a picture of someone and assume that all that musculature is necessarily permanent.
At the level in the picture: just unattractive. Not repulsed in any way. If you step it up much further, though, it becomes repulsive. To get to attractive, you need to tone it down to just, say, legs and arms, and maybe a [del]six[/del]2-4 pack when you suck your tummy in. I am attracted to women who look soft.
Speaking of soft, I’ve noticed that muscular men tend to look softer than muscular women. This seems like it would be the opposite of normal–that women, with their larger layer of subcutaneous fat, would look softer. Then again, maybe they overcompensate. Or use steroids.
I voted “attractive” but want to qualify that I find most women attractive, muscular or not. The woman in the OP photo is probably on the edge for me - extreme bodybuilder-type physiques would not do anything for me.
I said indifferent rather than “very attractive,” but honestly, all things being equal, I like a lean woman. And the woman whose pic is linked in the OP, wow, she’s amazing looking.
So, yeah, maybe I voted wrong is what I’m saying.
I voted ‘repulsive’ because of the specific picture in the OP, but just as she is over the top as far as ‘muscular’ goes IMHO, so is ‘repulsive’ not accurate as a term for most women I think of as muscular.
Give me, for instance, the entire US women’s soccer team, except I suppose the gay ones. One at a time, please!
Forgot to mention the first thing I thought of when I looked at the OP post. It was a couple of lines from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy – a description of the giant thug who felt no pain.
“What did he look like?”
“Like a blond tank.”