What’s More Attractive to Women: Height or Muscles?

Will getting jacked make up for being short?

Michael Chief
Hello, Love
Published in
5 min readMar 18, 2024

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Ask any woman what she’s honestly looking for in a man and it’s not unlikely that the first thing she’ll say is “tall.” That isn’t so encouraging for short guys like me who never grew past 5'5", or less than 170 cm.

It’s unfortunate that height isn’t something we can naturally “improve” in adulthood. The best we short dudes can do is to improve ourselves in all the other ways we actually can control. Besides, breaking our knees to surgically add a couple inches to our height isn’t exactly a reasonable solution for most of us.

The one saving grace of being short is that it’s much, much easier for us to put on muscle than it is for tall dudes.

And women are generally much more attracted to muscular men than they are to overly skinny or overweight men. Any woman who disagrees with that sentence is likely imagining a competitive bodybuilder on HGH when she hears the word “muscular.”

Since we have this genetic advantage of easily getting jacked (relatively speaking), we have no excuse but to hit the gym and eat all the…

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Michael Chief
Hello, Love

Dating Coach and author of Never Lonely: The Uncensored Guide on How to Attract and Be Loved by Women https://neverlonelybook.com/kindle