blinkwatt101 said:
Wow.
Shape,contour,proportionality are what get you women,money,contracts, and ultimately what most people want from having a nice body sex(read not chunky boy bodies). Just ask Fuglydude,who uses his body for a living.
I dance PART TIME... stripping accounts for only 10-15% of my after tax income... I'm not really an authority on what women want in an entertainer, as I don't dance regularly, and I'm sort of a "stagette specialist". I know I would train a lot differently, catering more to aesthetics, if all my cash came from dancing. I focus on training heavy and try to be lean at the same time. I love training heavy. Its one of the ways I relieve stress.
I don't the patience or discipline to watch my diet THAT carefully and I hate doing endless hours of cardio. I still manage 2-3 x 30 min. treadmill sessions a week, and am reasonably adept at cutting down if I have a week or so to prepare for show(s). That being said, I can't be bothered to train for proportion or tone... I'm NOT very proportional: 52-54" inch shoulder girdle w/ 15" arms... 38" ass w/ 15" calves... NOT proportional. I sit around 175-180 at 5'8" w/ around 10% bf... I have a 6 pack all the time except when I eat a giant meal. I'm not as lean or as disciplined as blink when it comes to diet or training for "isolation". I'd rather pull 400+, squat 300+ ATG, do pull ups/dips w/ 100+ around my waist, and be relatively lean, than focus purely on aesthetics and sacrifice strength for a few more lbs of fat loss. Just not my style.
In my experience, women like big, tall, lean/ripped good-looking guys who can put on a good show and are fun w/ great personalities. The top entertainers in my part of the world are in the 6' to 6'3" 210-225 lb range, all shredded w/ 6-8 packs. I think its like this everywhere. A lot of them are on large amounts of gear, but when you're on the road all the time and expected to look elite, its tough to maintain that kinda build w/o a little chemical assistance.
The dude in the pic is definitely good looking w/ a great body that would have most women drooling. However, women have varying taste. I asked my gf, and she considered him
ad verbatim "too girly/pretty, but I like his abs". She finds guys like Brad pitt too girly as well. She likes hypermasculine guys... like myself hahaha
