Why are we so obsessed with muscles if this is the optimal physique for survival?

Why are we so obsessed with muscles if this is the optimal physique for survival?

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  1. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because muscles are attractive to other men.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      homosexual, frick off.

  2. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Well, the environment is not the same everywhere.

    Competition with other tribes is also a thing, perhaps you want more muscles to defend yourself.

  3. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    It signals good access to food. Same with big breasts and ass for women.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Why are we so obsessed with muscles if this is the optimal physique for survival?
      >nearly starving to death every year is optimal physique
      impossibly false

      >Same with big breasts and ass for women
      No there is universal hip to waist ratio preference across all cultures and too much fat distorts it. Fat is not a fitness signal like muscle, it can somewhat be a culturally programmed attraction though it seems.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        They aren't nearly starving to death every year.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        >nearly starving to death every year is optimal physique
        >Fat is not a fitness signal like muscle
        Disregard this poster, he smokes wiener and is an absolute know-nothing moron

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynoid_fat_distribution

  4. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    >optimal survival physique
    >needs several space programs of Aid to survive to adulthood.

    Nah

  5. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    >optimal physique for survival

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      >trardigrade
      >not optimal physique
      That body is perfect.

  6. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >but there were no bodybuilding type bodies because nature doesn't care about your aesthetic phisique
    This, even when when evolution will fince balance between sexual and ecological selection.
    >pic related
    Chad dwarf.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      *will find

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      he is 185 cm ~6ft 1...

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        Just chad then.

  7. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Get the stonetoss comic

  8. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    i think we're more attracted to bones

  9. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Because young men in the 80's and 90's grew up seeing caricatured masculinity in the form of Schwarzenegger and Stallone action films

  10. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is not the optimal physique for survival

  11. 3 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pic related. Eh, theres a scientific term for this but animals get really attracted to exaggerated festures of the opposite sex. Theres this beetle in Australia that tried to mate with bottles of VB beer because the color and texture were peak female. Almost went extinct.
      Anime posters suffer from the same, you cant go back

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        >theres a scientific term for this
        Conspicuous consumption

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          Which is also why bald = bad

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          No man theres a scientific term for it. Animals are attracted to ceetain sexual indicators and go crazy when its exaggerated. Like big boobs with men, you think gynormous is a disability but it still attracts. No limits.

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            Evolution does not exist. IT IS NOT REAL... Especially when applied to humans.

            1.) There has never, EVER been a documented case in which one species completely transformed into something else. It has never happened and it never will happen.

            2.) Why did humans evolve so quickly? By all accounts, we should still be hairy primates with single digit IQs right now.

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              Your mother is a horse. Explain that.

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              How do you rectify this with the reality of genetic engineering?

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              I wonder why there's no clear documented case of a phenomena that takes millions of years when the scientific method has existed for less than 200

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                10/10 troll

                take a (you), ya little scamp

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                moron

                >inb4, how did life originate
                There are transitional forms between cells and viruses

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            fisherian runaway is the phrase you're looking for.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        supernormal stimulus, and yeah that's probably a big reason some people like it
        I would point out though, more often than not women don't like someone built like the Hulk, they want a strong man but not rippling muscles

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          >women dont like hulk men
          They say they dont until they see then and then they melt. Asking them as a theoretical question addresses the wrong brain region.

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            Then it cannot possibly be evolution. Being a "hulk" significantly lowers your life expectancy for obvious reasons.

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ah Yes Arnie was well known for not getting any pussy. Jason mamoa and the rock too

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      Those are some actual chesticles, wtf

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      They need to be able to support their own weight.
      Quality over quantity.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        Boobies better though

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        Boobs are just fatty tissue.
        Fat weighs almost nothing compared to it's size, women b***hing about lower back pain are just couch potatoes who just need to do basic exercise.

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          I have seem a fair share of landwhales with giant bellies and matching boobs complain about the strain of their boobs.

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          >. It's preservation of genes, not of beings.
          >If you have a nice day after you already passed your genes forward, there is nothing inherently paradoxical about it.
          >Human males, for all we know, could've evolved under selective pressures on that normal type of Fisherian "promiscuous male, choosy female" template.
          >You becoming suicidal could have all kinds of sources, both instinctive (a
          but they are NOT "just" fatty tissue... there are mammary glands in female breasts

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            Who are you quoting?
            >but they are NOT "just" fatty tissue... there are mammary glands in female breasts
            Sure, but that doesn't disprove that post that breast size is determined by fat.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      this is a peak woman

  12. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    lanklet cope. the optimal physique necessitates python arms

  13. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Why are we so obsessed with muscles if this is the optimal physique for survival?
    same reason peawieners have huge tails and Irish elk went extinct. females.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      love from kazakhstan

  14. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    >lazy "tribesmen" who live off government handouts and occasionally pretend to hunt whenever a camera crew is around
    >needing muscle
    pick one

  15. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    When I worked on a ranch I naturally developed some nice arm muscles from just the work. When you do work outside you often naturally just develop them, so it's not a surprise to me that women would find that body type attractive. Most men in ancient times who went around hunting probably had really nice physiques.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Most men in ancient times who went around hunting probably had really nice physiques.
      Wow you're dumb. Humans are endurance hunters. We evolved to follow prey until exhaustion. They were probably very lean and by today's bloated standards considered "skinny" but they could physically out compete any modern human outside of marathon athletes and Tour de France cyclists.
      >it's not a surprise to me that women would find that body type attractive
      It should be a bigger surprise to you that they don't

      >women dont like hulk men
      They say they dont until they see then and then they melt. Asking them as a theoretical question addresses the wrong brain region.

      >They say they dont until they see then and then they melt.
      Are you sure it's not you that is the one that melts sweetie and that you're not just projecting your sexual tastes onto women.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        Do you think your cheap banter about homosexuality is funny or original? How boring can you be

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          >funny or original
          No I don't but you're the one asking and it's the current year so there is nothing wrong with having an attraction to the opposite sex. If you weren't acting so defensive you'd realize that there is in fact a huge subset of the homosexual community that is into gym culture and muscles.
          >How boring can you be
          I'm not here to entertain you dipshit

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            Im not a gay, i made an explicit reference to women being attracted to muscular men and you decided to make a haha joke so funny about homosexuality. Just to derail the thread.

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              The whole point of this thread was some pathetic twig arguing its the people who go to the gym that are looked down upon. Hell have to except femboys will never be relevant outside the homo's licking their lips while he walks down the street.

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                >its the people who go to the gym that are looked down upon
                No. Looking down on the people who look down on the people who don't go to the gym.
                >femboys
                >Using homosexual slang
                >homo's licking their lips while he walks down the street
                That is a very...descriptive image

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Wow you're dumb. Humans are endurance hunters. We evolved to follow prey until exhaustion. They were probably very lean and by today's bloated standards considered "skinny" but they could physically out compete any modern human outside of marathon athletes and Tour de France cyclists.
        so you're telling me that humans who worked outside and hunted a lot were basically just skinny twigs with no hint of muscles at all? i find that kind of hard to believe.

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          >just skinny twigs with no hint of muscles at all
          Why does this scare you so much? The lighter the body, the less demand is placed overall on the body. They had some muscle but it was very lean. They had to have enough muscle to allow them to walk for days at a time but not too much as that would slow them down and any excess muscle was consumed by the body for fuel anyway where you are living in a situation where every calorie counts. You might call this a "skinny twig" because of culture and toxic masculinity molding a different body shape as most attractive but it was extremely efficient and powerful for survival.

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            I guess arguing your puny bod is optimal is easier than going to the gym.

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I guess arguing your puny bod is optimal is easier than going to the gym.
              Nah I'm smart enough not to buy into toxic masculinity and instead would rather see it destroyed

              Im not a gay, i made an explicit reference to women being attracted to muscular men and you decided to make a haha joke so funny about homosexuality. Just to derail the thread.

              Wow it seems as though you are really struggling to understand my posts.
              >reference to women being attracted to muscular men
              And I corrected you by saying it's actually mostly gay men who are into muscular guys. Put 2 and 2 together and well...
              >Just to derail the thread.
              Oh I'm the one derailing the thread now? When you were the one making a PrepHole shitpost "hurr durr women like muscle" and continue to have a hissy fit about what you perceived to be a joke threatening your manhood instead of constructively and unemotionally acknowledging that women don't like muscles.

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                My friends this is what onions does to your brain.

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                Onions

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                I didnt throw a fit, and women do like muscular men. Thats just a fact. You should have left it at that instead of starting with the homosexual shit.

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                Don't worry about that little queer. He cannot lift so instead he has to put others down

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                Im not a queer

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Thats just a fact.
                source: dude trust me
                Come on man, I've had several girlfriends, I am not muscular and not one of them asked me to put on muscle. I'm getting closer to a girl right now and when I said my voice wasn't very masculine she said she likes it better than really masculine voices, and she's not even bisexual. Women do not have a general preference for super manly men, we lie to ourselves that they do because we want to be more manly for ourselves and to impress others.

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                Fatties don't count.

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                first off they were not all fat, secondly that's arbitrary and irrelevant, and thirdly you're still providing NO FRICKING EVIDENCE HOLY SHIT SUPPORT YOUR CLAIMS

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                neurotic homies be like

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yes, the optimal human male in nature is about 5'6" and weighs 120 pounds.

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          strong muscles are not necessarily big, and when they are big they're not necessarily visible
          bodybuilders have to do a lot of shit to show off their muscles while being the same strength or even weaker than power lifters
          that's not even getting into strength versus endurance

  16. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    are we?

  17. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ita a malnourished african. Thats not optimal for anything what the frick are you talking about. If people werr living in loose knit hunting tribes stone age style the big man would still dominate his peers. Its seen i literally almost every social animal.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wrong

  18. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    The optimal physique for humans in the modern and future environment is the amazon female small male master race.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      Thats based as frick but that little manlet butter have the true fantasy dwarf bod.

  19. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    I loved that movie

  20. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    despite strength being mostly tendon the psychological effect of perceived strength is more powerful than actual strength.
    body builders are weaker than power lifters.

  21. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Agriculture, even with use of draught animals favors more muscle mass

  22. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    This isn't the optimal physique for survival. It's the optimal physique for hunting in a dry savana with little vegetation and a constant climate, where the main threat to survival is starvation.
    Throughout most of human (pre)history, the main threat to survival has been other humans. Being fit and muscular greatly increases your chances of winning in a fight no matter what weapons are used.
    Humans who evolved in a colder climate (Caucasians) also had a good reason to put on muscle: winter. There's little to no food in winter and if you don't have good storage or preservation methods, then the next best thing is to store energy on yourself. There's two ways to do that: fat and muscle. Muscle is better for obvious reasons.
    TLDR Not all humans are Africans steppe hunters

  23. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    >optimal physique
    kek those Black folk barely survive

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