Would girls into running (XC & Track, road racing) prefer a guy who could run a 15 minute 5k or Bench Press 350lbs?

We know what Abby D’Agostino and Elle Purrier think.

Of course it might not be about body type.

Dz200 wrote:

Sorry if something like this has been asked before. I have just noticed many runner girls do not marry runner guys, unless they are exceptionally good, like get paid for it and it is their career. Even then, I have noticed that many professional girls who run do not marry guys who do as well. Every other girl on an XC/track team I've been on, they have never really had long relationships with one another. I guess running isn't everything to people.

#1 you’re not sorry. It has been asked and answered. It’s not so much that you’re bringing it up again. It’s that you didn’t care to look.

#2 you’ll get over these feelings in your freshman year of college.

#3 #2 doesn’t matter if you’re still playing DND, watching anime and have subscriptions to twitch gamers.

I would guess that the average runner girl would be more likely to go for the 15-minute 5k guy than the 350-lbs.-bench-press guy, but there are a lot more 350-lbs.-bench-press guys out there, so statistically you will see more runner girls with 350-lbs.-bench-press guys even if the preference would lean the other way.

My reasoning that they would choose the 15-minute 5k guy is that he is more likely to be attractive and successful in other aspects of life due to the work ethic required to get down to a 15-minute 5k. There are a lot of bigger guys that can get up to a 350-lbs. bench press without putting in nearly the effort it would take to run a 15-minute 5k, and for that matter, they could be unhealthy, tubby, lards at the same time.

A lean 350-lbs.-bench-press guy would probably be the preference, but most 350-lbs.-bench-press guys aren't lean at all.

These things would not make or break attraction for a woman. It could be a bonus at best. Women are predictable. No need to overanalyze things here.

They're looking for the guy who is between the two extremes you mentioned.

depends on the girl. If she is fast, she may know a lot of 15 min guys. At some colleges, that would be a frosh or soph walk on. Any 300 lb fat guy can prob bench 350 if he lifts regularly, thats like a 130 lb distance guy benching 160. Mostly its about personality and compatibility. 2 people liking running doesnt make them compatible. A girl who runs 40 mpw prob doesnt think about running a quarter as much as you op and she isn't going to be training with you, it may come down to what else you're into...

Triathletes absolutely style on runners and it's not even close. A good tri guy will be laughing it up with girls on his arms and chugging beer while the runner is barely finishing the swim lol.

Matt London provides both

And in the real world, Joe Falcon was known for benching serious weight.

The type of person who asks such a question won’t get a woman even if he could do both because his thinking is much too shallow to be attractive to a woman looking for something more than a drunken one nighter when she breaks training after a goal race/meet.

I mean what if you can do both

Distance running tends to give women a good looking physique.

It makes men look ill.

Make of that what you will.

I wonder how Sara Hall would answer this question. She has been married to both.

Rick Sanchez wrote:

I wonder how Sara Hall would answer this question. She has been married to both.

Exactly.

And the additional funny thing is that he's almost certainly fast enough to pull off both in the same day (if he hasn't already).

Makes for a semi- interesting question: How pounds of muscle do you need to add and/or miles/per/week reduced before a 13-low talent (at least) can no longer run 15 ?

Confidence is free, but it pays off, bigtime.

Women are looking for a guy with the confidence to do what he wants to do, regardless of what he thinks others will like. When you step out front as the alpha dog, others will follow. You make that decision, no one else. If you're asking how to please others, by definition, you're putting yourself in the back of the line. Stop giving a **** what other people think. Start unapologetically doing you, and watch. Things will change for you, and fast. Since it's much easier to follow, most people don't want to lead. Lead with confidence and other will follow.

Primary ways for men to attract women: Money, Power/Status, Strength, Intelligence, Humor.

Note: 15min 5k is not listed above.

The truth is that most women don't care about a man's 5k time or max bench press. At all.

Runners are lazy. Run, eat work, nap, run or gym, eat, sleep. Thats literally my schedule. Who dates a skinny lazy dude. Come-on, young girls want to get pounded by a steak of a man, and later on they marry the runner dude..

350lbs bench press (for someone weighing less than 200lbs) would be way harder and more impressive than 15 min 5k, not sure how women would perceive both though.

Unless the 350-lbs-bench-press guy is a 300-lbs fatty, I would argue the work ethic and suffering required for a 350-lbs-bench-press by far eclipse that of a 15 min 5k. Off a modicum of talent, it doesn't even take a lot of work to run a 15 min 5k. And training are mostly easy runs . Even for the "real" workouts, you don't really need to cross the redline. But in powerlifting, every time you have to go harder than last time, sometimes even go to failure, there are just no easy days.