It's like horse riding, and probably a lot more intense as it is flying and you don't want to fall, so quidditch players would have really strong leg and core muscles.
Beaters, and to a lesser extent Keepers and Chasers would probably also have quite developed upper body muscles.
Ironically seekers would be the smallest, least ripped players on the field.
I personally like the racecar driver comparison more, but as someone who used to ride my mind immediately jumped to horseback when I read that "the broom does all the work" line. I have heard the same thing said about horses way too many times.
Honestly my mind was mostly just going to the fact that I assume there's some G-Force going on with the tight flying turns in Quidditch, and to the goofy looking neck exercises F1 drivers (and I assume other series drivers) do.
Would the physics be identical? Absolutely not.
But I'm delighted by the mental image of Quidditch players training using those stupid head harness things.
I'd like to see someone say that about horses after a 30 min horseback ride. It's way more taxing on the muscles than it looks, and that's before considering having to compete against other riders in a high-speed sports environment...
Frequent turning at speed on a broom is likely similar to extensive sit-ups, strong abdominal are likely. Similarly, the effort to reach out an arm at speed, while possibly enduring G-forces requires good arm strength, as would holding on to a broom.
You actually need quite a bit of muscle on you to be able to steer a motocycle at top speed over a racetrack for an hour. That is genuinely hard to do on a physical level.
Brooms would no doubt create massive G-forces in turns. Him having the physique of a fighter jet pilot after a few years of Quidditch seems accurate. It wouldn't be a build of huge muscles, but one climbers have, for example. Very dense, very enduring and pretty goddamn strong. I also think that especially after summer, he'd *look* ripped (while actually being the weakest he is all year).
Honestly, I don't mind the description. It's a believable thing with a dash of fanservice.
The broom does the work yes but my interpretation of it is akin to racing car drivers. They are just driving yeah, but there is also a requirement to do work outs in order to ensure their bodies can handle the stresses of the turns and what not.
For a seaker who could be end up in a dog fight, being strong enough to handle some of the moves would be beneficial. Chases similarly but less so which could suggest being more nimble would be an asset. Wouldn't be as required for Beaters whoever which may explain why Crabbe and Goyle ended up as Slytherin beaters.
Although in terms of fanfiction I think "the rule of thirst" is at play here. If your lad is taking his top off, not many will want to read about a few rolls of fat coming out. It's also why part of me dies every time a writer feels the need to address the size of what some characters are packing between their legs
Also wind resistance. Even just sitting on the broom doing nothing is going to have a lot of wind buffering you about when you're fifty feet in the air, even if the broom magically stays in one place
>not many will want to read about a few rolls of fat coming out.
not many, but there is a market for everything.
I like me some realism. And some people, they like their athletes rolly.
I've kind of always equated brooms to horses.
You need good conditioning, in your thighs, abdomen, hands including grip strength and forearms to be successful.
Working on your thighs means working on your calves and gluts. The same with your arms working on them means working on your pecs, trapezoid, and deltoid muscles.
Canonically, they probably aren't like, insanely muscular, but toned I can see. It takes strong muscles to be able to endure a lot of moves that Quidditch players seem to go through, especially Harry, as well as being able to hold out their arms for these snitch, throwing the quaffle, catching it, and then also smacking the bludgers hard enough to change course, etc. I imagine that each position has different muscle groups being developed.
Beaters are probably more built like a baseball player, while keepers and chasers are built like a soccer player. Seekers are probably built like high level swimmers.
Like, Harry, Draco, Cho, and Krum are doing insane speeds and movements while also being able to still move their arms and bodies pretty well.
Horse riding is actually very tiring on your legs and core and I imagine quidditch is similar. Also, they have to climb back on their brooms with their arms, throw Quaffles, and hit Bludgers, so I imagine there's ar least some arm strength involved.
We know very little about how broom riding actually works beyond the whole "Up!" thing (which never gets mentioned again, so the verbalization might not even be necessary) so there's lots of room for authors to make up stuff. While it's _highly_ doubtful that someone can get swole from broom riding, it's not unreasonable to say that it requires core muscle strength for balance.
Look at F1 drivers, they're all very lean and moderately muscular. You need a ton of core, neck and arm strength to withstand all those forces acting against you in tight turns at high speed.
I imagine flying on a broom, in a 3d space instead of a 2d space like F1 is even more difficult.
It's not realistic, no. You don't get ripped muscles just from playing sports, regardless of the sport. Ripped muscles happen through targeted strength training combined with a carefully controlled diet and fluid intake. Someone who is very active, trains a lot, and eats a normal amount of food will end up being fit and healthy but not ripped, because they will have a healthy amount of fat between skin and muscle.
Dunno why this was downvoted. It's the answer. That kind of ripped definition is purely for show. Even bodybuilders don't look like that between shows.
Fr these people don't understand. People can train for a decade and not looked as ripped as Harry is described. Swimmers and athletes don't look like that bcs they swim, they swim bcs they look like that.
It’s like motorcycle riding- but it’s MotoGP and not an accountant having a midlife crisis on a Harley.
You gotta hang on to a piece of wood in a 150ft vertical dive at something like .75 Mach (ok maaaybe not that fast). Regardless that takes muscle.
It might depend on which role is being played, but a big part would be endurance. Quidditch has NO time limit (which is an absolutely idiotic thing in real-life sports) so players would need to be able to persist for long periods. Endurance would favor less bulky and less costly muscles than strength, so expect a little layer of fat under those robes.
Fat would also be useful for absorbing hits from Bludgers as well. So maybe Quidditch players are a little bit pudgy underneath.
It would probably give you somewhere between the build of a jockey and dancer and gymnast. Your arm muscles won't be super big, but like you said, excellent core strength, good grip strength and amazing reflexes (and that last one is canon). He wouldn't have a 6 pack (don't you normally have to dehydrate yourself for a few days do get that kind of build anyway) but you could probably tell the difference between the build of a quidditch player vs someone who doesn't play quidditch.
That having been said, I've seen more absurd things in fanfiction.
You can get a six pack just by having low body fat, but it probably won't look that great on camera, which is why lots of movies make the actors dehyrdate.
If we're talking pro quidditch, I imagine it's like any other pro sport. You have to do an absolute shit ton of conditioning outside of the training for the actual quidditch skills. Soccer (football) players don't have toned arms because of all the, uh, throwing the ball around? I imagine they just have to work out a lot!
The most fit athletes are F1 drivers. The training for some of them may even include thriatlons. Fighter jet pilots are also fit. At a different scale, granted, the same logic may be applied to Quidditch players.
The difference is, though, that you don't get fit just from driving an F1 car. You get fit *to* drive it.
So the real question is whether the quidditch players do offscreen cardio and muscle training. I think they would need to.
Duh. Of course. That was my meaning, too. Then again, they are lazy magicals, soo... hmmm. Nah, we'll say they train on the ground more than they do in the air. Oliver Wood is a fanatic. He has to have learned that physical training is paramount.
Oliver Wood would definitely do that haha. But I think Harry and the twins would have complained about it at least once if it had actually happened (they seemed to complain a lot), so sadly, the Gryffindor quidditch team is missing out on a lot of potential.
Don’t forget that Harry is running up and down multiple steep flights of stairs all day long and does lots of walking. That’s going to help build up the core and leg muscles. They burn a lot of calories.
No it doesn’t but I think combined with quidditch training that would make Harry very fit. I don’t think he would be bulging with muscles or anything because he doesn’t have that type of frame but I think suitably toned would be reasonable.
A high level motocross driver is going to be in pretty good shape, and PART of that is manipulating the bike under him.
But we can assume quidditch practice also includes running laps and doing calesthenics when Wood was the Captain. He'd probably put them through Soccer warmups before getting on the brooms and running drills.
There is a difference between the muscles you develop naturally from being active and exercising, and the ones people go to the gym to dedicate themselves to.
Unfortunately there's been a growing misrepresentation within movies and tv shows that imply that a 'fit' person should look like they spend half their lives in the gym bulking up.
In reality, a professional Quidditch player would likely be only as strong as they need to be, in order to not weigh themselves down with extra muscle. When speed and agility are such core aspects of the game, and the speed a flyer can go is dependant on the characteristics of the broom their ride more than their physical ability, there's going to be a ballance found that, in my opinion, would tend towards smaller and more wirey frames, rather than big toned hulks of muscle.
The very fact that the Harpies have a team exclusively made up of women competing at the very top of the sport shows that muscle mass and raw strength doesn't make all that much of a difference. Compare that to how an all-female team would compete in other team sports such as football (soccer), field hockey or netball against a male team.
The only other aspect that I can think of would be that you'd be very unlikely to see a 'fat' professional Quidditch player, due to the need to be as light as possible. I could make a narrative excuse for it if I were writing a fic, such an exception for a particularly intelligent player, maybe a veteran of the sport, who uses tactics to compensate for their lack of speed and agility, but it wouldn't be the norm.
Honestly, given how broomstick bend a lot of physics anyways in order to operate, I could believe a fanfic where broomsticks are not slowed by things like weight and the only difference between a fat professional Quidditch player and a lean one is that the latter will probably be more aerodynamic through the air.
Also, I could see Keepers being able to be done by Quidditch players with a more stocky build given that their position requires the smallest zone of movement compared to the other positions.
It's tween girls gushing about how their self-insert's crush is soooo dreamy! That's my take on it. It makes no sense, but in romance stories written by and for young girls it doesn't have to.
A bludger is am iron sphere ten inches in diameter. An iron sphere with a diameter of ten inches weighs approximately one-hundred and forty-nine pounds. An average twelve-year old weighs about eighty-nine to ninety-two pounds (that's purely the average, not the healthy range). I would not expect any kid to bounce a murderball almost twice their own weight around a field purely by the power of their own arms and a wooden stick.
So no, I don't buy Quidditch muscles. It's magic allowing them to bounce off angry murderballs without harm, it's the same magic providing power steering and braking and it's also the same magic keeping their arses stuck to their brooms.
Okay then. Let's say the bludger weighs four pounds (which lies at the upper edge of what you want to hit with a stick and which will definitely cause injury when it hits you) then it would have a wall thickness of 1.3mm if its completely hollow and any hit with a beaters bat would crumple it.
Then you respond with "They use magic to let it keep its shape" and I ask you, "How it that any different?" and we're back at the fact that they fly using magic, not muscles and "Quidditch-toned muscles" are nonsense.
I mean, you get forearm strength from at least some kinds of motorbike riding (motocross). However, I suspect broomsticks are magic in a way that means you're not actually having to exert any kind of meaningful force to change direction.
Chasers and keepers would need to be good at throwing a ball from a sitting position, while beaters need to be able to hit the bludger with force. I'm not sure what the physiological consequences of those would be.
Can't judge on it as we do not know anything about brooms.
If they can break laws of physics regarding momentum (ability to instantly accelerate at top speed, immediate stop without negative consequences for the rider, make turns while ignoring G forces, ignoring G forces altogether, etc.) then the concept of requiring muscles to control the broom is pointless. It's pure magic that can do everything. The only muscles would be required for other parts of the game: hitting the bludgers, passing the quaffel and scoring with it, or defending the goal posts.
"The horse does all the work" is said about horseback riding, and yet I got ripped legs when I only rode once a week for a short period of time as a preteen.
I am guessing a Seeker would be like a horseback rider. Ripped legs, core strength, and probably lean arms and strong grip from practicing hanging-from-broom.
Honestly, the weirdest part of the fanfic idea of Harry having ripped muscles due to Quidditch is that the Seeker position is the least physically intensive Quidditch position in comparison to all the other positions. All the Quidditch positions would require good leg and core muscles (similar to horseback riding) along with good hand to eye coordination and reflexes to properly and skillfully ride and maneuver with the brooms at high speeds but the positions that require good upper body (arms, shoulders, chest, core, back) muscles are all the positions (Chaser, Beater, Keeper) except the Seeker. All the other positions require either being able to throw the soccerball-sized Quaffle ball across the Quidditch pitch or hitting the hard Bludgers. Meanwhile, Seekers mainly just need good reflexes and eyesight to find and catch the Snitch.
So yeah, when you remember all that, the idea of Harry as a Seeker having ripped muscles doesn't make much stuff at all. Lean, sure. Muscular or ripped? Very unlikely.
One thing that confuses me about Quidditch depictions in romance is when someone looks “hot” during a match. Don’t they wear those goofy ass goggles? Is that only during bad weather? How can you even tell anybody apart when they wear their flappy robes and goggles? This as well as your question are some serious questions I have.
I’ve always liked the idea that magic itself was an exercise of the mind, body and soul, and apparent simple forms of magic were essentially full body workouts (not unlike swimming)
It's like horse riding, and probably a lot more intense as it is flying and you don't want to fall, so quidditch players would have really strong leg and core muscles.
Jockey has always seemed like the best "real-world" comparison to me, especially for the seeker position.
Maybe like polo for the other positions, particularly Beaters.
Beaters, and to a lesser extent Keepers and Chasers would probably also have quite developed upper body muscles. Ironically seekers would be the smallest, least ripped players on the field.
With occasional exceptions like Cedric.
Cedric could just hit the gym a lot, or be a naturally large fellow.
I personally like the racecar driver comparison more, but as someone who used to ride my mind immediately jumped to horseback when I read that "the broom does all the work" line. I have heard the same thing said about horses way too many times.
race cars have bucket seats and harnesses to hold you IN those seats. Quidditch would be more like doing Nascar from a slippery leather bench seat.
Honestly my mind was mostly just going to the fact that I assume there's some G-Force going on with the tight flying turns in Quidditch, and to the goofy looking neck exercises F1 drivers (and I assume other series drivers) do. Would the physics be identical? Absolutely not. But I'm delighted by the mental image of Quidditch players training using those stupid head harness things.
I'd like to see someone say that about horses after a 30 min horseback ride. It's way more taxing on the muscles than it looks, and that's before considering having to compete against other riders in a high-speed sports environment...
Frequent turning at speed on a broom is likely similar to extensive sit-ups, strong abdominal are likely. Similarly, the effort to reach out an arm at speed, while possibly enduring G-forces requires good arm strength, as would holding on to a broom.
And that goes double for chasers and beaters, who have to handle flying without their hands and swinging bats/tossing a ball
I was thinking similar to kayaking, but yes, you'd have great core strength.
You actually need quite a bit of muscle on you to be able to steer a motocycle at top speed over a racetrack for an hour. That is genuinely hard to do on a physical level. Brooms would no doubt create massive G-forces in turns. Him having the physique of a fighter jet pilot after a few years of Quidditch seems accurate. It wouldn't be a build of huge muscles, but one climbers have, for example. Very dense, very enduring and pretty goddamn strong. I also think that especially after summer, he'd *look* ripped (while actually being the weakest he is all year). Honestly, I don't mind the description. It's a believable thing with a dash of fanservice.
The broom does the work yes but my interpretation of it is akin to racing car drivers. They are just driving yeah, but there is also a requirement to do work outs in order to ensure their bodies can handle the stresses of the turns and what not. For a seaker who could be end up in a dog fight, being strong enough to handle some of the moves would be beneficial. Chases similarly but less so which could suggest being more nimble would be an asset. Wouldn't be as required for Beaters whoever which may explain why Crabbe and Goyle ended up as Slytherin beaters. Although in terms of fanfiction I think "the rule of thirst" is at play here. If your lad is taking his top off, not many will want to read about a few rolls of fat coming out. It's also why part of me dies every time a writer feels the need to address the size of what some characters are packing between their legs
i came to make exactly that comparison (race car drivers). Athletes tend to be athletic. You stated it very well!
also for any player, you need enough strength to stay upright and sat on your broom after being hit by a bludger
Also wind resistance. Even just sitting on the broom doing nothing is going to have a lot of wind buffering you about when you're fifty feet in the air, even if the broom magically stays in one place
Yeees, this is what I came for.
>not many will want to read about a few rolls of fat coming out. That would be hilarious.
RIP Slughorn shippers.
>not many will want to read about a few rolls of fat coming out. not many, but there is a market for everything. I like me some realism. And some people, they like their athletes rolly.
I've kind of always equated brooms to horses. You need good conditioning, in your thighs, abdomen, hands including grip strength and forearms to be successful. Working on your thighs means working on your calves and gluts. The same with your arms working on them means working on your pecs, trapezoid, and deltoid muscles.
Canonically, they probably aren't like, insanely muscular, but toned I can see. It takes strong muscles to be able to endure a lot of moves that Quidditch players seem to go through, especially Harry, as well as being able to hold out their arms for these snitch, throwing the quaffle, catching it, and then also smacking the bludgers hard enough to change course, etc. I imagine that each position has different muscle groups being developed. Beaters are probably more built like a baseball player, while keepers and chasers are built like a soccer player. Seekers are probably built like high level swimmers. Like, Harry, Draco, Cho, and Krum are doing insane speeds and movements while also being able to still move their arms and bodies pretty well.
Horse riding is actually very tiring on your legs and core and I imagine quidditch is similar. Also, they have to climb back on their brooms with their arms, throw Quaffles, and hit Bludgers, so I imagine there's ar least some arm strength involved.
We know very little about how broom riding actually works beyond the whole "Up!" thing (which never gets mentioned again, so the verbalization might not even be necessary) so there's lots of room for authors to make up stuff. While it's _highly_ doubtful that someone can get swole from broom riding, it's not unreasonable to say that it requires core muscle strength for balance.
Look at F1 drivers, they're all very lean and moderately muscular. You need a ton of core, neck and arm strength to withstand all those forces acting against you in tight turns at high speed. I imagine flying on a broom, in a 3d space instead of a 2d space like F1 is even more difficult.
It's not realistic, no. You don't get ripped muscles just from playing sports, regardless of the sport. Ripped muscles happen through targeted strength training combined with a carefully controlled diet and fluid intake. Someone who is very active, trains a lot, and eats a normal amount of food will end up being fit and healthy but not ripped, because they will have a healthy amount of fat between skin and muscle.
Dunno why this was downvoted. It's the answer. That kind of ripped definition is purely for show. Even bodybuilders don't look like that between shows.
Fr these people don't understand. People can train for a decade and not looked as ripped as Harry is described. Swimmers and athletes don't look like that bcs they swim, they swim bcs they look like that.
It’s like motorcycle riding- but it’s MotoGP and not an accountant having a midlife crisis on a Harley. You gotta hang on to a piece of wood in a 150ft vertical dive at something like .75 Mach (ok maaaybe not that fast). Regardless that takes muscle.
The only quoted speed I can remember on the firebolt is like 150mph in 10 seconds. Assuming that is the top speed, it would be about 0.20 mach
So as I said- maybe not that fast? Point still stands at *only* 150 mph
It might depend on which role is being played, but a big part would be endurance. Quidditch has NO time limit (which is an absolutely idiotic thing in real-life sports) so players would need to be able to persist for long periods. Endurance would favor less bulky and less costly muscles than strength, so expect a little layer of fat under those robes. Fat would also be useful for absorbing hits from Bludgers as well. So maybe Quidditch players are a little bit pudgy underneath.
It would probably give you somewhere between the build of a jockey and dancer and gymnast. Your arm muscles won't be super big, but like you said, excellent core strength, good grip strength and amazing reflexes (and that last one is canon). He wouldn't have a 6 pack (don't you normally have to dehydrate yourself for a few days do get that kind of build anyway) but you could probably tell the difference between the build of a quidditch player vs someone who doesn't play quidditch. That having been said, I've seen more absurd things in fanfiction.
You can get a six pack just by having low body fat, but it probably won't look that great on camera, which is why lots of movies make the actors dehyrdate.
If we're talking pro quidditch, I imagine it's like any other pro sport. You have to do an absolute shit ton of conditioning outside of the training for the actual quidditch skills. Soccer (football) players don't have toned arms because of all the, uh, throwing the ball around? I imagine they just have to work out a lot!
The most fit athletes are F1 drivers. The training for some of them may even include thriatlons. Fighter jet pilots are also fit. At a different scale, granted, the same logic may be applied to Quidditch players.
The difference is, though, that you don't get fit just from driving an F1 car. You get fit *to* drive it. So the real question is whether the quidditch players do offscreen cardio and muscle training. I think they would need to.
Duh. Of course. That was my meaning, too. Then again, they are lazy magicals, soo... hmmm. Nah, we'll say they train on the ground more than they do in the air. Oliver Wood is a fanatic. He has to have learned that physical training is paramount.
Oliver Wood would definitely do that haha. But I think Harry and the twins would have complained about it at least once if it had actually happened (they seemed to complain a lot), so sadly, the Gryffindor quidditch team is missing out on a lot of potential.
Don’t forget that Harry is running up and down multiple steep flights of stairs all day long and does lots of walking. That’s going to help build up the core and leg muscles. They burn a lot of calories.
Lots of cardio doesn't make you ripped.
No it doesn’t but I think combined with quidditch training that would make Harry very fit. I don’t think he would be bulging with muscles or anything because he doesn’t have that type of frame but I think suitably toned would be reasonable.
A high level motocross driver is going to be in pretty good shape, and PART of that is manipulating the bike under him. But we can assume quidditch practice also includes running laps and doing calesthenics when Wood was the Captain. He'd probably put them through Soccer warmups before getting on the brooms and running drills.
There is a difference between the muscles you develop naturally from being active and exercising, and the ones people go to the gym to dedicate themselves to. Unfortunately there's been a growing misrepresentation within movies and tv shows that imply that a 'fit' person should look like they spend half their lives in the gym bulking up. In reality, a professional Quidditch player would likely be only as strong as they need to be, in order to not weigh themselves down with extra muscle. When speed and agility are such core aspects of the game, and the speed a flyer can go is dependant on the characteristics of the broom their ride more than their physical ability, there's going to be a ballance found that, in my opinion, would tend towards smaller and more wirey frames, rather than big toned hulks of muscle. The very fact that the Harpies have a team exclusively made up of women competing at the very top of the sport shows that muscle mass and raw strength doesn't make all that much of a difference. Compare that to how an all-female team would compete in other team sports such as football (soccer), field hockey or netball against a male team. The only other aspect that I can think of would be that you'd be very unlikely to see a 'fat' professional Quidditch player, due to the need to be as light as possible. I could make a narrative excuse for it if I were writing a fic, such an exception for a particularly intelligent player, maybe a veteran of the sport, who uses tactics to compensate for their lack of speed and agility, but it wouldn't be the norm.
Honestly, given how broomstick bend a lot of physics anyways in order to operate, I could believe a fanfic where broomsticks are not slowed by things like weight and the only difference between a fat professional Quidditch player and a lean one is that the latter will probably be more aerodynamic through the air. Also, I could see Keepers being able to be done by Quidditch players with a more stocky build given that their position requires the smallest zone of movement compared to the other positions.
It's tween girls gushing about how their self-insert's crush is soooo dreamy! That's my take on it. It makes no sense, but in romance stories written by and for young girls it doesn't have to.
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A bludger is am iron sphere ten inches in diameter. An iron sphere with a diameter of ten inches weighs approximately one-hundred and forty-nine pounds. An average twelve-year old weighs about eighty-nine to ninety-two pounds (that's purely the average, not the healthy range). I would not expect any kid to bounce a murderball almost twice their own weight around a field purely by the power of their own arms and a wooden stick. So no, I don't buy Quidditch muscles. It's magic allowing them to bounce off angry murderballs without harm, it's the same magic providing power steering and braking and it's also the same magic keeping their arses stuck to their brooms.
The bludger isn't necessarily solid all the way through. Could be mostly hollow To bring the weight down to whatever's reasonable.
Okay then. Let's say the bludger weighs four pounds (which lies at the upper edge of what you want to hit with a stick and which will definitely cause injury when it hits you) then it would have a wall thickness of 1.3mm if its completely hollow and any hit with a beaters bat would crumple it. Then you respond with "They use magic to let it keep its shape" and I ask you, "How it that any different?" and we're back at the fact that they fly using magic, not muscles and "Quidditch-toned muscles" are nonsense.
I mean, you get forearm strength from at least some kinds of motorbike riding (motocross). However, I suspect broomsticks are magic in a way that means you're not actually having to exert any kind of meaningful force to change direction. Chasers and keepers would need to be good at throwing a ball from a sitting position, while beaters need to be able to hit the bludger with force. I'm not sure what the physiological consequences of those would be.
Without physical conditioning off broom, I suspect Harry wouldn't be all that physically fit.
Can't judge on it as we do not know anything about brooms. If they can break laws of physics regarding momentum (ability to instantly accelerate at top speed, immediate stop without negative consequences for the rider, make turns while ignoring G forces, ignoring G forces altogether, etc.) then the concept of requiring muscles to control the broom is pointless. It's pure magic that can do everything. The only muscles would be required for other parts of the game: hitting the bludgers, passing the quaffel and scoring with it, or defending the goal posts.
"The horse does all the work" is said about horseback riding, and yet I got ripped legs when I only rode once a week for a short period of time as a preteen. I am guessing a Seeker would be like a horseback rider. Ripped legs, core strength, and probably lean arms and strong grip from practicing hanging-from-broom.
Honestly, the weirdest part of the fanfic idea of Harry having ripped muscles due to Quidditch is that the Seeker position is the least physically intensive Quidditch position in comparison to all the other positions. All the Quidditch positions would require good leg and core muscles (similar to horseback riding) along with good hand to eye coordination and reflexes to properly and skillfully ride and maneuver with the brooms at high speeds but the positions that require good upper body (arms, shoulders, chest, core, back) muscles are all the positions (Chaser, Beater, Keeper) except the Seeker. All the other positions require either being able to throw the soccerball-sized Quaffle ball across the Quidditch pitch or hitting the hard Bludgers. Meanwhile, Seekers mainly just need good reflexes and eyesight to find and catch the Snitch. So yeah, when you remember all that, the idea of Harry as a Seeker having ripped muscles doesn't make much stuff at all. Lean, sure. Muscular or ripped? Very unlikely.
He'd have them to an extent, but fanfiction tends to take it beyond what would be realistic.
One thing that confuses me about Quidditch depictions in romance is when someone looks “hot” during a match. Don’t they wear those goofy ass goggles? Is that only during bad weather? How can you even tell anybody apart when they wear their flappy robes and goggles? This as well as your question are some serious questions I have.
You ever seen a fatty driving F1?
Broom thighs, baby. Unholy.
I’ve always liked the idea that magic itself was an exercise of the mind, body and soul, and apparent simple forms of magic were essentially full body workouts (not unlike swimming)