Do you want to learn a confident and sexy walk for men?

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My name is Lucio, I am a social scientist, psychology nut, social skills consultant, and eternal researcher of everything related to people and social dynamics.

This article will tell you what research and body language say about a powerful, confident, and sexy walk.

1. Move Your Shoulders

A shoulder swag is a crucial aspect of a sexy walk.

Some sources say that swaying the shoulders makes them look broader and highlights a positive masculine quality.

Shoulder swag is also a sign of energy and vitality.

Opposite to men, women instead sway their hips and bottom to highlight femininity.

2. Pace Your Walk With Your Arms

There are two elements of arms’ movements to walk like a sed God:

• Back and Forth Movement
• Distance from the Body

You want to move your arms, at least a bit.
Not moving and standing still is a typical fear response part of the “freeze” category of our reptilian brain, which is exactly what you do not want to communicate.

Similarly, arms too close to our body signal fear and unconfidence.
It’s when we’re afraid of venturing into the nearby territory indeed that we keep our arms close to our bodies.

Why?

Because we unconsciously feel like our arms could be more helpful close by to defend our body.

Again, you don’t want to send the message you are afraid of your surroundings.
For a sexy and confident walk, we’ll move our arms and we will spread them farther from our body.

3. Splay Your Legs

We keep our legs crossed when we’re fearful.

And we keep our legs open when we want to show openness and masculinity in what’s often called a “crotch display”.

Also, as politically incorrect as it might sound, what’s one of the most stereotypical effeminate walks you can imagine?

It’s the walk with the thighs rubbing one another of course. Pressing your thighs against your crotch is a way of negating your sexuality.
Letting some air circulate is a way of displaying manhood instead.

An easy way of adding splayed legs to your budding sexy walk is to avoid your thighs rubbing each other.

4. Walk With Erect Posture

Slouching and dropping our shoulders it is a way of closing within ourselves and defending our inner body.

Erect posture is a sign of confidence and it makes you much more attractive.

5. Splay Your Feet Outward

When people open up their feet, they also open up the way to their crotch and make it more visible.

Some men “open” the internal side of their feet when walking and it’s rarer in women -it seems to me Asian women do it more often-.

And since much of positive sexual communication is about displaying gender differences, splaying out the feet can be considered a positive masculine sign.

When women do it while sitting it works as a powerful aphrodisiac for many men, as it feels like an invitation to their vagina (rawer and cruder style, classier women will never do that).

Warning:
Do it slightly. Some raw, masculine energy from splayed feet is good, but do it too much and not only you go overboard, but you also show poor physical joint structure.
And physical malformation is rarely attractive.

This video represents a good mix:

6. Keep Your Gaze Up

There are main ways of gazing while walking:

• Straight and Focused

This is the “man on a mission” kind of walk.

Look straight on, focused, with the slightly aggressive attitude of the man who knows where he’s going and wants to get there quickly.
Don’t look at people, your expression and demeanor say “get the fu** out of my way” (most will).

Warning:
Don’t use this type of walk in any social setting. It shows a (slight) disdain for people, it will make you seem unapproachable and it will look incongruent if you want to approach and socialize later on.

Daniel Craig does it great in general, and particularly well here at second 23.
Yours truly gives you below a poorer stylish-wise example but with a better camera angle.

• Chill and Calm: Enjoying Life

Sometimes life is to be taken in and enjoyed at a slower pace.

And while the “man on a mission” walk is sexy in a dominant kind of way, the “chill and calm” is sexy in a more intellectually dominant kind of way.

There are a few ways to make the “chill” and “enjoy life” walk work.

The most important part is that you do not look down and that you move your head slowly.
Men darting their eyes around are scanning the environment for opportunities and, more often, for threats. Not sexy.

7. Smile Slightly

I will have a proper article on smiling, but the short of it is that there are two main ways you can smile:

• “Teethy” Smile 

A genuine smile is wider and larger and it fully shows the teeth.

It’s less sexy, less dominant, and more social but can also be attractive.
Note the difference: some smiles are submissive, but if you’re smiling with full gusto out of sincere enjoyment it says you can let go of yourself, which is sexy.

And it says you’re content with your life.
In a world where most people live a life of quiet desperation -to quote Henry David Thoreau-, we are naturally attracted to those who have found an inner source of happiness and peace.

• Sexy Smile

This is the sexier, smugger version.

A tight-lipped smile says you got some secret in your life that makes you feel confident and superior and that you will not share (Pease and Pease).
What is he up to, what’s his secret, they’ll be wondering…?

One corner of your lips is more raised than the other corner and you don’t show any teeth: it’s an ever-so-slight smile.

Warning:
sexier is overall better but doesn’t always attract more women. Some can think you’re too into yourself, and some others will dislike you for making them feel like you’re out of their league.
When you’re in doubt and want to socialize, it’s safer to err on the more social side.

8. A Walk To Pick Up

Let’s be honest: the reason we care at all about how to walk sexy is for the opposite sex.

There are two main ways you can make an impression which will result in more physical activity beyond just walking:

Walk Past Her

Keep walking past without looking at her. Your superior, snub style coupled with your sexy strut will sure as hell make her look at you.

Gianna Nannini has a famous hit song called “bello e impossible“, meaning “handsome and impossible”.

Why am I telling you this?

Because “impossible” is exactly what you’re angling for here, except… Except you will meet her later on “accidentally” and if she plays her cards you might become “bello e possible” ;).

The effect is similar to having a cool standing pose: you let them look at you and admire you and the effect is to “celebrit-ize” you.

Give a Slight Smile

As you go past her, you turn slightly towards her.

Unsexy guys leering at girls make it wrong because they do it crudely and too obviously -and sometimes add the biggest attraction killer ever: the catcall-.

You, instead, look at them coolly… Yes, she piqued your interest… Somewhat.

But you’re not fully sold yet, and you know how to play the game.
That’s the message you want to send.

Looking at them this way is also more likely to elicit a reaction so that your approach will be more like a warm approach.

And if she doesn’t look at you at all?

Well, then coolly turn around and go for it anyway, you have nothing to lose.

9. Bounce With Gravity Defying Steps

Has he just had sex?

Guys, if you’re looking for “how to walk cool”, this is your walk.

Energized and confident, this one communicates “the world is mine for the taking, and that makes me the coolest cat alive”.

Joe Navarro in “What Every BODY is Saying” talks about “gravity-defying” body language.

He says that when we feel energized and confident, we will gesticulate with our arms more often and we will often swing them from side to side when we walk.

A bouncy sexy walk also tends to move at a quicker speed.
It’s a bit more juvenile and you will rarely see it from more mature men, but it’s very sexy as it underlines vitality, vigor, and a joyful personality.

You do a bouncy sexy walk by moving slightly quicker and adding a bit of a bounce to your steps as if you had springs in your shoes.

And feel free to move your arms around, touch your face (in a sexy way), or adjust your clothes.
And don’t forget the mood: you love life.

I’m glad I can show you this walk with one the sexiest men alive:

10. Brisk Walk is a Sexy Walk

Some sources will tell you to move slowly and walk slowly. Well, that’s true… On some occasions.

In some others, not so much.

How speed relates to sexiness, is indeed highly contextual.

Slow will work great for:

• Retired millionaires
• Bigger, chubbier men
• Powerful men in slower “lines of work” as we’ve already seen with The Godfather
• Men NOT in control of their schedule to show defiance to power and independence -if you hurry you look “goody two shoes toeing the line” –
• Strolling around with your woman

It will also work great for almost everyone in more chill settings, like a nighttime lounge, the beach, or a sunny day at the park.

But a healthy man in a busy, bustling city, with people swirling around you? Or when immersed in work, or partying on the dance floor?
Too slow will make you look silly there.

Like Tom Tucker in Family Guy:

Don’t listen to sources saying “slower is better”: it’s just a bad generalization.

Walking during daytime stick to average speed with good strides or slightly above average speed underlying your goal orientation and physical fitness if you’re doing stuff.

Slightly lower than average if you’re strolling.

Walk Like You Own It: The Mindset

The mindset of a sexy walk is also what makes you sexy in general.

You believe you are a man with a lot of value to give to any woman -or guy for that matter- and you are and you feel like you’re in control of your life.

Walking powerfully with a goal in mind means you do have goals you care about in your life, and walking leisurely means you do enjoy life and know how to enjoy life -which is very sexy-.

Note On Video Examples:
my walks in the video examples are slightly accentuated to show the move more clearly.
For normal daytime and day-to-day situations, I usually rein it in a bit and I would advise you to move towards those examples without fully reaching them (except for when you wanna play a bit and for when the time calls for it, then go full power).

Bonus: Some Less Sexy Walk for Men

Here are some examples of famous walks that are not as sexy:

Vladimir Putin

It’s OK to swing one arm more than the other, even advisable maybe. But Putin overdoes it (KGB training some say) :

John Wayne

John Wayne is a symbol of manliness, but I wouldn’t copy his walk here.

His upper body arm swings a bit too much in front of his body.
A good erect posture wants your arms more on the side, and the arms in front of the body are defensive.

He does much better here though and adds another great nonverbal gesture of dominance: the slight “get out of my way” hand gesture.