On a related note, it would be interesting to give out some statistical information about attractiveness and body fat percentage.
A few years ago, we ran a survey where we asked women to rate the attractiveness of various male bodies. We presented them with photos of male torsos, heads cropped off, and they told us which of the bodies they found the most attractive. We also asked them why they found some male bodies more attractive than others.
Some of those photo arrays were designed to see whether women preferred men with healthy body-fat percentages, and they did:
In this photo array, 58% of women chose a man with a body fat-percentage of around 14%.
This was as expected. Women were picking the men with lower body-fat percentages because those lower body-fat percentages were healthier. But what happens when we drop the body-fat even lower?
Other photo arrays were designed to see whether women preferred men with abs.
They didn’t:
Here, 63% of women found a body-fat percentage of around 13% the most attractive, preferring it it to the physiques of guys with more chiseled abs.
In this photo array, 82% of women chose the guy with a body-fat percentage of around 14%, greatly preferring it to the more muscular, shredded physiques.
The next thing we did was ask women why they found some physiques more attractive than others. Here are some direct quotes from their survey responses:
It looks the most natural/normal.
It looks healthy and not overdone!
Fit but not overdone.
I don’t find particularly defined abdominal muscles nice looking.
I don’t like overly defined abs.
It’s less natural looking.
He isn’t disgustingly ripped.
Not excessively ripped!
Not too overboard in fitness
Healthy, toned, but not too much. The others are a little too intense.
Looks healthy, young, and not overly defined
The abs don’t pop out as much,
it looks more like a body of someone who is fit because of a sport as opposed to someone who does it for looks.
What’s the most attractive male body-fat percentage?
Overall, it seems like all of the research lines up quite neatly. Women prefer men who look healthy and strong, which means a body-fat percentage of 8–20%,
with the majority of women preferring men with a body-fat percentage somewhere in the middle.
(Which would mean 16-18%)
Source
https://foxhoundstudio.com/blog/the-most-attractive-male-body-fat-percentage-is-it-possible-to-be-too-lean/
Everyone should read this study. I only copied the attractiveness part to catch your attention. The real important thing is not doing it for external validation but for yourself. The article discusses studies in the earlier Portion which proves a lower Body fat makes you healthier produces more testosterone, less anxiety, less chances of disease and a plethora of other things.
The idea of masculinity does not mean dominating others. At the very base of the idea of manhood is control over your actions. And the first thing you can control is what you put in your mouth (pun not intended) and how you workout to be healthy in this dystopian world where everyone else is eating cancerous processed foods and junk food. I advice taking up strength training. But before that people should train in bodyweight mastery as Brother Stormblood explained people can't do squats and go on to lift barbells.
https://kinobody.com/pages/sales-page-bmp
(I have this and I can post for free of anyone is interested. )
https://bonytobombshell.com/bombshell-aesthetics-building-attractive-female-body-imaginable/
(Related to women.)