What Muscles Do Girls ACTUALLY Care About?

Today, we answer the most important question known to gym bros worldwide. What male muscles do women love most? And do muscles matter to girls? To find out, I’m asking girls at the beach to gather data, then running a full statistical analysis to determine the muscles men have that women love — and also finding out which muscle ranks the highest and which ones they just don't seem to care for along the way. At the end, I’ll also reveal the one unexpected personality trait that actually outperformed all the best male muscles.

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But to start things off, I want to first ask the guys what they believed to be the muscles men have that women love. Do we really understand what women want? After talking to the guys, our leading predictions were chest and shoulders.

This means it’s finally time to start asking girls what they really thought were the most attractive muscles on a guy, but I’m gonna need some assistance. Max has one of the best-proportioned physiques I know and is going to be our Muscle Model for the day, just in case the girls need a visual reference before making their choice. But what Max doesn’t know is I'm secretly playing matchmaker! Max is as nice as he is buff, and he's single too. As we interview girls to find out what they think, let's see if we can find someone truly special for him.

Turns out our first couple attempts didn’t go that great — even though Max is in amazing shape, he’s also incredibly shy. And while I was failing in my role as a wingman, we were at least getting some really valuable answers to the question of “What male muscles do women love most?” from the girls. In addition to having the girls pick their #1 muscle, I also had them rate each muscle on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the most attractive. After we get enough data, I’ll be using a scientific tool called ANOVA to determine which muscle is not just the most attractive, but if it actually reaches statistical significance. This way, we can confidently say if certain muscles are genuinely more attractive and which muscles are not. 

Early on, I was already finding one muscle group that was doing surprisingly worse than I expected. Abs. But before you guys ditch the diet and jump on a bulk for the rest of your life, I did notice something interesting with the data. Although abs score low on average, when I count how frequently girls pick them as the most attractive muscle, they’re actually in the top 3. This suggests that while, on average, girls don’t really seem to care much for six-pack abs, the ones who do find them attractive and score them as a 10. Which just goes to show that even if a muscle doesn’t score high on our study there is still someone out there who may be attracted to just that.

With Max’s body and my skills as a wing Man I was finally able to set Max up with some potential first dates. But how much of his success was coming from his muscles? Do muscles matter to girls? Well, this goes back to our ancestral times. Back then, strong muscles showed that a man could protect and support his family. But it wasn't just about fighting ability; since building muscle needs protein-rich food, it meant these men were good hunters too. So today, even though most men get muscles at gyms rather than hunting, attraction to muscles should still be hard-wired into their DNA.

While having some muscle was definitely seen as positive by almost every girl we spoke to, they were generally seen as far less important than most guys predicted. So, if you are hitting the gym, you're probably better off picking a goal that’s important to you rather than just trying to impress girls. I won’t say muscle doesn’t help, but in my experience, it typically leads to a lot more compliments from gym bros rather than the ladies. 

As for the results of our survey, we managed to collect over 50 responses from our interviews. But based on a statistics tool called G-power, it recommended we aim for at least 200 to make our results statistically valid. So after sending out a quick online survey, we had all the data we needed to determine the best male muscles.

Calves came in dead last with only 3 first place votes out of 205 responses. As it turns out, not a lot of girls really love calves. Next were glutes, legs and abs. Now, while those muscles significantly outperform calves, their scores were much lower than the upper body muscles, chest, back, and shoulders.

But there was only 1 muscle that reached statistical significance when compared to every other muscle. Arms. In fact, on average 1 of every 3 girls we surveyed picked arms as their number 1 muscle. But even though nice arms still won't guarantee the girl of your dreams, there was one personality trait that outperformed every muscle we surveyed. Humor.

[Kqlisa]

people will watch this as an excuse not to train their calves

[bhuvaneshs.k]

Ranking all muscules
1. Money
2. More money
3. height
4. Shoulders and arms
5. Back
6. Legs quads and glutes
7. Abs

[Minimal]

Damn, kudos to brachioradialis girl. Not sure why forearms were not in the survey, as far as I know girls love strong veiny forearms.

[sdr_xp]

Reasons that I decided to start working out:

1. My health and wellbeing, including my mental health.
2. Sticking to a routine, being accountable, having purpose.
3. Definitely to help find a girl.

I have been bigger my entire adult life until now. Alot of women won't give you the time of day if you aren't somewhat fit, but It definitely isnt the only thing. I feel you need to look the best version of yourself to get someone in the door, then your personality, sense of humor, attitude, morals, goals, etc are what keeps them there. Also getting in shape, especially for someone who has been overweight most of my life, has boosted my confidernce with women. So while its definitely not top of the list to get fit to find a mate, working on yourself is extremely satisfying and 100% worth it.

[Nobody-ee]

The most important muscle for girls is height...

[theconstanttraveler]

if THAT man is a 7, what chance does any other man have???

[Lao-Lin]

0:18 Come on fellas, we all once thought this is our reality once we're buff

[VainCape]

1) Height
2) Height
3) Money
4) Muscles

[westenwesten]

11:10 from 0-9 with 9 being the most attractive is
calves 5.57
glutes 6.65
legs 6.98
abs 7.35
chest 7.81
back 7.86
shoulders 8.26
arms 8.62
thanks.

[alsadekalkhayer]

Max is the greatest guy, Jeremy you're a friend every dude wishes to have 😂

[zawarudo]

After watching this, I'm going to train my humor from now on.

[pongsakornonnim]

Gotta add 3 sets of telling dad jokes for my next workout.

[Masty]

What girls say when they know they’re being recorded on camera for a YouTube video is not necessarily what they really believe. Trust actions, not words, brothers.

[MrWiented]

Bro, in what fucking world is Max 7 or 8 /10? He has literally the phisique I would kill for.

[Tidaltwist]

Don't listen to what women say, watch what they do. Take an average muscular guy to the women who said it's not important and they'll show a different attitude.

[martinclark]

Those are some middle school attempts at match making brother

[vrajpanchal]

bro i like your honesty how you kept the part about girls mentioning that out of most a funny character is must, or else there's no use of it . KEep the good work man

[Sez___]

One important thing to keep in mind these are verbal responses from participants. there are many who might want to believe that they find arms more attractive or just say they do because they don't think about it much, but when a guy has his shirt off her brain reacts greater to the toned abs. Keep in mind girls see arms more often than not so when they are trying to think of what they often find attractive they might think of arms more often.


There is also muscle pairings. So having good arms with big broad shoulders might be more attractive than a buff chest with large traps. Though, on a skinny dude chest alone might be more attractive than biceps alone.

[drfirebone-]

Bro knew he was doing with the thumbnail 😂

[toddjohnson]

My 2 cents: What women say they like (especially on the spot) -- isn't necessarily going to be correct. In fact, it can be significantly off, when it comes down to it -- although it's never going to be the opposite by any means. Second, when we think about important aspects and such -- comparisons come to mind. If a gal rates a guy's body as an "7" in an environment with lots of guys who work out, she'll feel he's a "10" when she's been immersed in a normal environment of guys of all types. Kind of like saying he or she is 'ugly' -- in reference to what? Their feeling of where they measure on that scale is going to be relevant to the environment we have a sense of to compare to, without consciously thinking about it. "She was ugly, " when she's not ugly, but you were talking with her at a club full of hot women, and that whole night walking around downtown with great looking women. Similar to what some people like to point out, where some good looking but not hot gals will like to go out on the town with gal pals not as good looking as they are -- they'll be perceived/felt as better looking.

In the end, the attributes you feel you're more attracted to -- unless it's an individual aspect you REALLY are into and always think about -- isn't necessarily going to be correct. Especially when asked on the spot. Which is why we'll find people ranking X, Y, and Z -- but in the end say they actually really like those with Z the most, then X and then Y, etc.