Ames

As SSJ Bulma mentioned, In order to gain size you need to eat more and train harder. To figure out how to gain 1lb of muscle, you need to multiply your body weight x 1.5, which equals the grams of protein you need to eat to gain 1 lb. of muscle (not to mention calories). The reason the women don't have muscles is because they don't have a vigorous training regimen and don't eat everything they get their hands on...

Although it's unsure how many meals the saiyans can eat, I would guess at least 6. The normal body builder eats every 2 hours for a total of 6 meals per day.

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Mystic_Gohan

Videl and 18 have pretty noticable muscles, Pan's still a kid so it's understandable why she doesn't. The fact is they do have muscle, they're just not ripped. Besides, the anime depicts them as females to give them a feminine appearance, they don't want them to look too masculine. Most of the DBZ females have a typical athletic body type pertaining to an anime:

Thick thighs, prominent breastbone, broad shoulders, higher rib line, and lots of curves. You'll also notice that for the females, the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the neck is just one line instead of two. It's a common fact that women have less muscle mass than men, and also less bone density.

Honestly though, especially early on in the series, most of the Z fighters didn't have much muscle mass, they were just very very ripped and had like close to 0% body fat. That creates the illusion of having "big" muscles to someone unfamiliar with human anatomy. It's only when they turn SSJ does the real mass come in, especially USSJ takes it to a steroid level and Broly takes even beyond steroids.

SaiyajinPerfection

18 is the strongest of all of them, and she's not ripped; and she should be because of the fact that she is a cyborg (part mechanical, part bio), and not an android.

Females can have tone, but they can't get ripped unless they take enhancment drugs.

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metalhead187

Most females in DBZ dont fight that much like chi-chi and bulma so its like they have no reason to have big bulky muscles but you know pan is young and her muscles havent devolped yet

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SSJBulma

17 wasn't ripped either. I think that Androids were design to be strong ect but don't need to be 'decorated' to actually perform well in fighting.

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feon2

Gina Carano (a fighter in real world) is very strong and didn´t have big arms.

Agreed.
Yeah. Gain muscles is pretty hard. A normal person, with a good diet and a hard training, rarely gains more than 1 lib per month.

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SSJBulma

Heh I was having a discussion about Gina with a mixed martial artist fanatic earlier.
I don't think muscles even define how strong you are. Most big muscle guys in the real world don't actually have that much strength.

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Yaki

The actual reason why they don't have big muscles is simply because they were drawn that way.

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SSJBulma

Hmmm posssibly...

I quoted myself wtf?

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Mystic_Gohan

You'll notice that most grapplers aren't built and don't have much muscle mass but their surprisingly strong from all the grappling they do... which helps build functional strength.

Ames

You can work for anything. Being an old grappler, the strength part comes mainly from athletes who spend more time strengthening themselves through their sport, rather then going into the gym 5 days a week and swelling a specific muscle group.

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Bloodyhawk

Females can definitely have huge muscles. They just have to eat more and train harder than the average man would. The most probable reason they don't have big muscles in the anime is simple, to keep them attractive and feminine.

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SSJBulma

There's definately a point where the muscles get too intense and make a woman just look scary. Actually it's the tanning that really makes it bad.
I prefer to be a super strong woman minus the mad abs and pecs that are bigger than a mans head.

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apocalypse1280

First I'll say men and women are built differently, that should be a known fact. But besides that, I don't remember seeing any female in DB/Z/GT train quite as intensely as say Goku or Vegeta, correct me if I'm wrong. Therefore I don't see how any female in DB/Z/GT would look anything close to that.

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SSJBulma

I wonder if Chaotzu is capable of increasing his physical muscle mass? Somehow I find it hard to think of him as a midget Hulk.

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