Body fat %

Lordpendragon · 10-06-2006

Checked mine out of interest - 18 - 20% range depending which way through you measure. I imagine that when I was boxing, I would have been closer to 10%. I am not 21 anymore - so happy to be built for comfort.

DC_DEEP · 10-06-2006

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Originally Posted by WildHoney

As a girl , mine is 20 % and i show abs sometimes....at 18 % its perfect but i can't eat burgers hahaha......10% on me i'd be dead i reckon!!!

:)
Honey

Well, Honey, women physically need a higher percentage than men, otherwise you couldn't have those lovely tits & hips.

There's a reason that so many female athletes (most especially gymnasts and bodybuilders who are obsessive about keeping their body fat low) have irregular or non-existent periods. They just don't have the raw materials in their bodies to keep up the hormone cycles.

drevo50 · 10-06-2006

When I'm within my target weight range (172 - 178 lbs) my BMI is 21 (good is 20-25) and a 6 pack starts to show. Good quality food, not too much of it and no/little alcohol, and regular exercise also helps. 14 lbs overweight at the moment, all of it goes around the middle!

DeeBlackthorne · 10-06-2006

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Originally Posted by tripod

That is usually attained by having a LOT of muscle. All that muscle creates an unbelievably fast metabolism that has the capability to burn bodyfat at an accelerated rate. They also use drugs to cut up like GH and Insulin, they used to use Winstrol and Albuterol when I was bodybuilding in the late eighties and early nineties, I don't really know what they are using now. The stack of ephedrine Hcl., Caffiene, and aspirin is the safest OTC way to cut up with pharmaceuticals. Bodybuilding.com carries one of the only liscensed versions of ephedrine hcl. currently available in the US.

And to be fair... ectomorphs (a.k.a. skinny, can't put on muscle well, very low body fat, lean and tight muscle building) may not have a lot of muscle, but it's the muscle-to-fat ratio that counts for your body. You can have double-digit percentages and still look great. It's dependent on how big and filled out you are everywhere else.

Me, I've got pretty low fat -- 5-6%. This one muscley dude I know claims 3 or 4% for himself. Then again, he seems like the embellishing for embellishment's sake in most areas of his life anyway...

ennedi · 10-06-2006

dont know how you measure it, but running some 1mile - 2km (3-7 times a week) surely helps!¨for building muscles, gym and weights.
good luck dongalong!

Monster · 10-06-2006

11.3%

traithoinay · 10-08-2006

i am so jealous of you guys, i haven't been eatting that much junk food within the last month or so, versus before but for some dumb reason i gained like 20lbs, and i'm mad piss i just don't really understand why, probally because i eat too much bread or something...