# Opinions wanted about women body builders and muscles on women **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137 "2003-05-14T04:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/21 "2003-05-14T14:02:56Z")
Muscular women are fine by me. Of course, when they’ve gotten “ripped” for posing competition, they look grotesque, especially when they flex every muscle in their body. But in every day life, they look fine. Although generally they have very low body fat, which means minimal breasts. That’s a bit of a loss, imho. I can’t say that body-builder women are a particular turn-on, nor turn-off (except when posing, ick) It’s nice that they’re fit, but beyond a certain point of fitness, there’s no additional attraction. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/22 "2003-05-14T14:48:17Z")
The lady in the link isn’t quite my style, but she’s certainly not bad looking. Krista, maintainer of [this site](http://www.stumptuous.com) is hot. ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/23 "2003-05-14T15:10:24Z")
Not body builders, but women who enjoy doing some kind of exercise, such as swimming, martial arts, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/24 "2003-05-14T15:26:09Z")
I saw a show about women body builders once, there was this gal who had been competing for awhile, huge muscles, but for whatever reason her breasts were completely gone. So she decided to have breast implants. Try to imagine huge chest muscles, with these small silicon blobs on the end. It looked…odd. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/25 "2003-05-14T20:10:30Z")
**ultrafilter** I used to visit that woman’s site maybe 3 or 4 years ago (it had training advice), but she changed domain names. It’s nice to see her stuff is still around. I’m female, and I wish I was a bit more ripped. I loved Linda Hamilton’s look in T2. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/26 "2003-05-14T20:27:02Z")
Another man weighing in… [Fitness Olympian - Beautiful! YES!](http://www.musclefilms.com/fitness_models/jenny-worth.html) [Another Fitness Olympian - Beautiful! YES!](http://www.musclefilms.com/fitness_models/susie-curry.html) [Fitness Olympian 2002 - OF COURSE!](http://www.musclestore.com/store/full/02ttt.jpg) [Ms. Olympia - NO! NO! NO!](http://www.musclestore.com/store/full/02sss.jpg) Too Schwartzenegger looking… ---
**Author:** ![Teaira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9d8465/32.png) [@Teaira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teaira)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/27 "2003-05-14T21:23:47Z")
Yeticus. Ms. Olympia is honestly the scariest looking female body I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/28 "2003-05-14T21:30:38Z")
Male. Bulked out women look just as, if not more silly than bulked out men. Both are unappealing to the eye. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/29 "2003-05-14T21:31:26Z")
Ms. Olympia might look OK if her proportions were OK, but her arms look way too small compared to her legs. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/30 "2003-05-14T21:58:18Z")
I’m a male. Toned and in shape are good looking, but when I can see the muscles outlined, then it is too much. I’m sorta the Marilyn Monroe appreciation guy for my ideal, but all women are attractive if they are in good shape, but not buff. ---
**Author:** ![cj\_finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@cj\_finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cj_finn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/31 "2003-05-14T22:03:43Z")
Check out the women in the Title 9 Sports catalogs. They’re natural, in great shape, and look wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/32 "2003-05-14T23:12:31Z")
Referring to Ms. Olympia… If you got those “bumpy things” near your crotch, that’s an indicator telling you to “STOP!”; you’re becoming inhumanly ugly! Also, those shoulders are way too big and wide. You might as well have another job holding up scaffolding or something with those shoulders. Another thing, the inverted triangle on a woman is sickening - the body shouts out “I’m a man, really I am!” ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/33 "2003-05-14T23:20:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > \*\*Put her in the right dress or outfit and she would look fine. I generally prefer women who are as fit as Linda Hamilton was in one of the _Terminator_ films. I especially admire well-toned arms and washboard abs. \*\* Oo! Linda Hamilton in T2 was yummy. Really, really pumped up though, male or female, is quite a turn off for me. If you can’t move smoothly, or when you become muscle bound so that your arms can no longer stay against the side of your body while your standing at “attention” I just don’t like it. I like _lean and wirey_. (I’m female, bi.) ---
**Author:** ![SlowMindThinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/34 "2003-05-15T00:06:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Check out the women in the Title 9 Sports catalogs 100% right. I’m glad I have girls, so we get that catalog! I also like the Kiefer catalog, and other swimming catalogs. Running catalogs tend to have models, not athletes, and those aren’t as fun to leaf through. Me, I like athletic women. Some swimmers are too big, some runners too scrawny, but most are great. I also like women with big boobs. And I like earth mother women. And dancers. And horse women. And karate women. And … Ok, I like women. But not women who cause an SUV to lean, whether it be muscle or fat. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/35 "2003-05-15T00:19:33Z")
Male. Athletic is attractive. Fitness chicks are attractive. Weightlifters are not attractive. Of course, there is a lot of slop in those categories–I’m sure you can find women athletes with bodies that I’d not like and weightlifters with bodies I would. But since we’re just grouping them into groups… Personally, a body type that really gets my motor running are the college gymnasts. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/36 "2003-05-15T00:26:03Z")
Athletic women are HOT. Women bodybuilders…yecchhh. (I don’t think male bodybuilders are attractive either, FWIW. Too much muscle becomes a turn-off.) ---
**Author:** ![spiro51](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@spiro51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spiro51)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/37 "2003-05-15T00:32:00Z")
Male here, gut reaction: not attracted. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/38 "2003-05-15T00:57:14Z")
To clarify my earlier post, IMO the woman in your link is gross. And in case you couldn’t figure it out, I’m a woman. ---
**Author:** ![jacobsta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@jacobsta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacobsta)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/39 "2003-05-15T01:45:05Z")
Male here- I think women bodybuilders are incredibly attractive- the first one linked in the post here I think has a great, attractive body, although I don’t really like her hair… anyway, Body building women are great ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137/40 "2003-05-15T01:58:51Z")
O.K., what about the women gladiators who appeared regularly on “American Gladiators”? Not ripped, but still quite large in the shoulders and arms. Here’s a picture of one in a relaxed pose: [http://www.femalemuscle.com/galleries/raye\_hollitt/page18.html](http://www.femalemuscle.com/galleries/raye_hollitt/page18.html) If you scroll through the pages you’ll see she looks quite different in each picture, depending on the pose, etc etc. Just trying to figure out what part of the muscles thing turns people off. Certain kinds of athletes look like this too, btw. If you oiled them up and made them pose they’d look a lot like the bodybuilders. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-wanted-about-women-body-builders-and-muscles-on-women/175137.md?page=3)