Looking lean, slim and muscular in the athlete's meaning of muscular is the ideal pussy pulling body. The only ones going for steroid bodybuilders are girls under 25 and then the fringe of women who are usually as fucked up as the bodybuilders.
I had a German friend that played in a soccer league. In the German soccer club house all these around 6 foot very lean guys had the most incredible women hanging around them. The guys had the traditional in shape soccer bodies. The bodybuilding permabulker look is also a bad look too.