Good-looking guys with twink bodies take it all. With 0 effort on his part. No hours in the gym, no insane discipline.
At every level I've been in life, in every environment, the men with the most success with women have usually been very athletic.
The 5'2 guy I mentioned had very good hand-eye coordination, and the players on the basketball team did well. Later on, one guy I was jealous of when I was 18, 19 lifted weights regularly, and was one of the top soccer players his age in Canada, he seemed to average a girlfriend a month. Around that time one guy went out with the three hottest women in my program in the space of two years, he had good hair, blue eyes, smart, had good social skills, and was lifting weights every morning and had a sharply-defined six pack.
At a later point in university, an athlete was the most successful person I knew with women, he didn't lift weights but he played a lot of competitive soccer (different guy) and has a natural build. Recently he started lifting weights and taking testosterone injections, that's when he met up with his fiancee.
There's one exception, one guy, was merely slim and 6'0, had an IQ of 150+ with a lot of confidence and drive though which is high enough for personality to be magnetic. He did a PhD in neuroscience, now works at google, his starting salary was 250,000/year, and yes he was getting ladies back when he was working-class. Actually, now that I think about it I know a second guy like that, so two exceptions, has had a few dozen women, he's 5'8, and obese, used to dress poorly and smell bad but he's tremendously intelligent and driven, he was poor back then but by now it's obvious he's going to be a self-made millionaire. When he was a poor student, he was regularly having sex with lots of attractive women. I think there might be an intelligence premium but only for exceptionally high intelligence (~150+). Interestingly, though neither is muscular, both these guys have exceptionally good hand-eye coordination.
Of the most desirable women I know:
- 1 is dating a rugby player from a rich family who has few interests out of weightlifting and expensive restaurants. She tells me he's really nice;
- 1 is married to a tall, hairy, strong, bald guy;
- 1 is with a bald guy but I don't know anything about him;
- 1 is with a man who looks like a male version of her;
It's like you expect to become this high-respected rockstar because you work out. Not going to happen. You're going to have to come down someday.
I've never written anything about being a rockstar. You shouldn't put words in people's mouth, it's a sign of weakness on your part.
FWIW, if I want to be "respected" in the sense that matters, I have one path in my opinion:
- Significant professional achievement, I will need to discover and identify more phenomena, and do so several times, and successfully claim credit;
- Need to present decently, not exceptionally well, but good enough, no double chin, clean clothes, no stupid or rude comments, good manners, good hygiene;