African Women

Build The Body Women Want

The results of studies on the ideal male body type are surprisingly consistant around the world. Women perfer lean, muscular guys with broad shoulders, ‘V-tapered’ torsos, and narrow waists. They generally don’t like skinny or overweight men. For example, a study comparing preferring male traits by women living in California and New Zealand showed a preference in both places for fit, muscular men over skinny or overweight men. In another study, African women from Camaroon were most attracted to muscular and average male body types. In China, women favored the average or muscular man to the thin or fat man. Build this kind of body and you will likely be successful with the ladies anywhere.

Women are most attracted to guys with large, round shoulders. The average women likes men with a larger chest and arms than normal, but not excessively large. Build toned biceps and triceps, but don’t develop 22-inch guns that make your shirt pop. Likewise, while defined pec muscles are definitely a plus, monster chest with stretch marks don’t turn on most women.

Women prefer a ‘V-taper” look that begins with broad shoulders and ends with a narrow waist. Large lat muscles are key to the taper looks. The lats give fullness to the back and help link the upper body to the core and lower body.

A narrow waist is important. A fat gut is the kiss of death to most women. The famous fitness model Greg Pitt said, “Chiseled abs are the minimum prerequisite to a nice body.” Building a fit, attractive midsection is not easy. Men naturally accumulate fat in the abdomen, so you build the abdominal muscles and minimize the fat covering them.

A good weight training program, aerobic, and diet program will help you get the look she wants–broad shoulders, thin waist with six-pack abs, and a V-tapered torso. Weight training will build muscles, and aerobics and diet will help cut fat that will make your muscles stand out. You can develop a ‘designer body’ through hard work and scientific methods.

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African American women only represent 1% of corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies?

Partially because, unlike White women or African-American men, who share gender or race in common with most colleagues or managers, African-American women experience a “double outsider” status. Any thoughts?

Agreed. There are unseen and sometimes unintended barriers for both women and minorities in certain circumstances. And to be a minority woman does create an extra layer of challenge.

To become a corporate officer at one of those giants, much more than ability is required. You’ve got to be committed to spend very long hours, overcome prejudice on the part of some individuals and, more importantly, be connected with the existing power base – which is hard to break into without a great deal of effort if you are very different (i.e. not a majority).

Further, more African American women head single parent households than do white women (or black men), which makes the personal and family sacrifices necessary to climb the corporate ladder very difficult or even impossible. (That is another issue – I think Bill Cosby has an opinion on that LOL!)

There’re are probably a host of other reasons for this disparity — which is why I’d recommend that African-American women who want to have that kind of responsibility (and men, and anyone else that has the stomach) start their own businesses.

That way, they call the shots, take the risks, create their own success (that no one else can steal the credit for), and reap the rewards of their efforts without necessarily working 70 hour weeks to do it.

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