[Ensam]

Just do full overhead squats. Fucking great for your abs.

[His Imperial Majesty]

(04-17-2013 10:36 PM)speakeasy Wrote:  

Interesting study on what women consider sexually attractive in men. The findings reveal just how ridiculously picky women are on physical traits:

Quote:

In an article just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr Mautz and his team describe their results. Happily for the insecure, although the women did indeed find a larger penis alluring, it was not the most important factor. That honour went to the combination of broad shoulders and a narrow waist, which accounted for around three-quarters of the variation in attractiveness all by itself. Height was also only a weak predictor of appeal. That is odd, says Dr Mautz, because other studies have linked height with all sorts of benefits, from higher salaries to longer lives. The bigger-is-better effect was also subject to diminishing returns: each extra centimetre, whether of height, shoulder width or penis size, was less significant than the previous one.

Nonetheless, even the tallest, broadest-shouldered and best-endowed digital hunks that the researchers generated fell short of perfection. “The optimum values appear to lie outside the tested range,” they note, adding that the “maxima are more than two standard deviations from the population mean for each trait.” That means that, for each trait, fewer than 2.5% of the men whom women encounter in the real world will be as generously proportioned as they might hope. Men with perfect scores in all three traits will be rarer than hen’s teeth.

So the takeaway here is work the shit out of your traps and deltoids at the gym. It's more important than height or the length of your member.

No No No

These types of studies are always misleading because they are only concerned with the physical which is only a very small part of the attraction story for women.

It’s true that as Men we value (for sound reasons) one thing above all else in a women… PHYSICAL BEAUTY.

Women however are hard wired (for equally sound reasons) to be attracted to one thing above all else in a Man… CONFIDENCE.

Go to the gym all you like but if a guy with game comes along she’ll be off before you‘ve got time to put your dumbbell down, no matter how big your shoulders are.

My advice is by all means keep fit but don’t bother over doing it.

But the real take away from this is;

Stop listening to what women think they are attracted to and start displaying the behaviour we all know they are attracted to.

[speakeasy]

(04-18-2013 06:58 PM)Ensam Wrote:  

Just do full overhead squats. Fucking great for your abs.

If my back wasn't fucked up I'd try that. The standing military press is awesome for your shoulders, but if you have any back issues like I do, it's murder on your spine.

[Hannibal]

(04-18-2013 12:26 PM)MikeCF Wrote:  

Spend a lot of time on this:



Builds up back and rear delts and makes you wide.

Pull it all the way back. If you can't (most can't pull it all the way back, due to using slobby form over the years and thus they lack structural integrity of the back and shoulder girdle areas), have a training partner push it that extra inch.

If no training partner, lighten the load. It's more important to get full range of motion and to hold the contraction.

Hold the contraction for 1 second.

On your last set, hold the contraction for as long as possible and do a super slow negative. A 30 second negative is great.

That builds up your entire back structure in a way unlikely to cause injury.

Would the barbell row be anything similar? I've never seen a machine like that one, but it looks like a row to me.

[Kabal]

(04-18-2013 11:00 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  

Would the barbell row be anything similar? I've never seen a machine like that one, but it looks like a row to me.

Very similar to the row family of exercises.

I personally feel more activation along the center and middle of the back from bent-over barbell rows, and more posterior deltoid action from face-pulls, with rhomboids and related scapulae-region muscles in both.

[Moma]

(04-18-2013 01:42 PM)soup Wrote:  

They definitely are visual, but I think they have a different set attributes in a mate than what we are looking for.

Lizards want a man to fcuk, what is different about those attributes on a visual sense?

Big chest, sculpted shoulders, big arms and it will be significantly different. I assure you.


As MikeCF said, the better your body is, the further into the attraction phase you will take the reptiles.

Have you ever seen a lizard that looks ordinary in the face and then the body make you a lot more interested?

Again, do NOT underestimate the impact of a well sculpted male body. I have been able to counter a lot of LMR with the very basic singlet and shorts move once they are in my private quarters.

I used to think it was tacky till I tried it and was amazed how powerful it was.

You ever heard a lizard say "Oh, I don't like men that big, blah blah?"

Never EVER take what a lizard says to heart. Observe her actions and reactions.

[Don]

(04-18-2013 09:00 AM)Menace Wrote:  

All studies that use self-reported data from women are prima facie invalid.

A year ago this thread would've stopped after this post, not continued on arguing how to get bigger shoulders. I'm a meso, been working out since I was 16, i do have big shoulders and narrow waist, but trust me, all that it gives me is looks and more approachable women..without game i'd be 0.
This should be a forum about game, not about male insecurities.

[speakeasy]

^^^ Sorry guys, I had forgotten to include the link in the economist magazine.

It wasn't based on self reporting, like a survey. They showed women digital photos of nude male bodies with varying height, shoulder width and penis size and observed which proportions of each they best responded to. And at what point they hit diminishing returns.

[MikeCF]

(04-18-2013 11:00 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  

Would the barbell row be anything similar? I've never seen a machine like that one, but it looks like a row to me.

Sure, but if you load up a lot of weight on the barbell, it can become hell on your elbows. Just be mindful of that.

[MikeCF]

(04-18-2013 09:55 PM)His Imperial Majesty Wrote:  

No No No

These types of studies are always misleading because they are only concerned with the physical which is only a very small part of the attraction story for women.

It’s true that as Men we value (for sound reasons) one thing above all else in a women… PHYSICAL BEAUTY.

Women however are hard wired (for equally sound reasons) to be attracted to one thing above all else in a Man… CONFIDENCE.

Go to the gym all you like but if a guy with game comes along she’ll be off before you‘ve got time to put your dumbbell down, no matter how big your shoulders are.

It's not 2001 anymore.

The game in the U.S. has changed.

If you don't have an edge, you are getting blown out.

I live in the "PUA capital of the world." Those gurus are not getting laid.

How often - in the U.S. - do you see a girl and guy together and think, "She is so much better looking than he is."

I know that skinny guys like to think that meat heads are all these really insecure guys and some guy who weighs 135 and goes in with confidence is a killer.

But when you are big and can lift a lot of weight, it's hard not to be confident and to feel like you are better than your would-be competition.

Also, when girls start touching your arms and shoulders, confidence is natural.

[MikeCF]

(04-19-2013 05:42 AM)Don Wrote:  

(04-18-2013 09:00 AM)Menace Wrote:  

All studies that use self-reported data from women are prima facie invalid.

A year ago this thread would've stopped after this post, not continued on arguing how to get bigger shoulders. I'm a meso, been working out since I was 16, i do have big shoulders and narrow waist, but trust me, all that it gives me is looks and more approachable women..without game i'd be 0.
This should be a forum about game, not about male insecurities.

A lot of good looking or built guys taking receiving IOIs for granted.

The vast majority of guys get no looks from women at all. This is why the majority of game writers talk about doing cold approaches. As a man you have no idea if a woman is interested because she doesn't signal it at all. But you gotta approach anyway.

If you were doing sales, would you rather make cold calls or would you rather approach warm leads?

A player still has to be a closer. But warm leads are better than cold and a good build or other edge (great style, obvious charisma) warms them up before you move in.

[speakeasy]

(04-19-2013 02:14 PM)MikeCF Wrote:  

(04-19-2013 05:42 AM)Don Wrote:  

(04-18-2013 09:00 AM)Menace Wrote:  

All studies that use self-reported data from women are prima facie invalid.

A year ago this thread would've stopped after this post, not continued on arguing how to get bigger shoulders. I'm a meso, been working out since I was 16, i do have big shoulders and narrow waist, but trust me, all that it gives me is looks and more approachable women..without game i'd be 0.
This should be a forum about game, not about male insecurities.

A lot of good looking or built guys taking receiving IOIs for granted.

The vast majority of guys get no looks from women at all. This is why the majority of game writers talk about doing cold approaches. As a man you have no idea if a woman is interested because she doesn't signal it at all. But you gotta approach anyway.

If you were doing sales, would you rather make cold calls or would you rather approach warm leads?

A player still has to be a closer. But warm leads are better than cold and a good build or other edge (great style, obvious charisma) warms them up before you move in.

Exactly. I'm no Tyson Beckford, but I'm not a bad looking guy either. I dress decent, I'm in shape and most guess I'm about 8 years younger than my actual age. IOIs for me are pretty damn rare. Most all my approaches are cold. If I get the occasional IOI(from a decent girl I actually want to talk to), that one is the in the bag. If it's a cold approach, then you have to deal with high rates of flaking because her interest-level wasn't high enough. So just for efficiency's sake, I'd rather focus on warm than cold approaching and doing whatever I can to raise my chance of getting IOIs. I don't even want to imagine how tough it has to be for guys who are decidedly unattractive.

[cardguy]

The guy with the world's biggest dick says he has being single since 1996:

[Stun]

(04-18-2013 06:58 PM)Ensam Wrote:  

Just do full overhead squats. Fucking great for your abs.

You really have to tailor your workout to your body type and where you genetically build muscle. That is why workout guides on the internet are basically useless. They are too one-size-fits-all.

For example, if I followed the conventional wisdom of squats, deadlifts, barbell bench and military press only, I would not fit into any pair of jeans or shirt known to man. Because my legs and shoulders are genetically jacked, whereas I need to spend extra time on my back and especially chest to see any results.

So for me, it's 3-4 chest exercises for every 1-2 leg exercises. And I only use the sleds for squats and leg press, rarely the barbell.

Waist to shoulder ratio is the most important thing for looks, followed by having big strong legs.

If you have a jacked chest, shoulders, upper back and thighs, and a skinny waist, you will have the girls ripping your clothes off. At least IME. Cheers.

[Hannibal]

(04-19-2013 02:01 PM)MikeCF Wrote:  

(04-18-2013 11:00 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  

Would the barbell row be anything similar? I've never seen a machine like that one, but it looks like a row to me.

Sure, but if you load up a lot of weight on the barbell, it can become hell on your elbows. Just be mindful of that.

Alright. I realized that I have been neglecting my upper back and lat region earlier this week. I thought doing deadlift and pullups would have been good enough, but I did some rows on Monday and it seemed to stimulate the upper back in ways that pullups and deadlifts do not. I'll be incorporating that into my routine from now on.

[soup]

(04-19-2013 02:54 PM)cardguy Wrote:  

The guy with the world's biggest dick says he has being single since 1996:

He said he got tons of ass between 19-25..

[MidWest]

I actually agree with this. I notice that also many women think we men like big tits, so they flock to get boob jobs because of it, although true, its not the only thing I look for in a woman. Ive had bitches where many of them didnt have big breasts and I never thought anything of it. Although having big tits on a girl helps, I wouldnt turn down a B-cup who is a 10 just because of the tits. Same here with the penis size and all.

[Screwston]

So basically, work out as hard as you can and get some muscles.