Anyone have comparison pictures of people at different bf %'s?
Maybe even different body types with close to the same bf% so people understant that 10%bf doesn’t look the same on everyone.
Just thought it would be interesting to see (no pictures of 35% and up, please;).
I don’t have much, but here I am at 22%…
Ha ha,
My friend got hers tested via dexa. She came out to 18%. She is pretty lean. You can make out arm definition on her and can obviously see definition. Prior to this I would have guessed that she was 12%.
beef
And here I am at about 15%…
12.80981%
In case you missed it in the other thread. Dunno what % this guy is…
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[quote]SWR-1222D wrote:
Anyone have comparison pictures of people at different bf %'s?
Maybe even different body types with close to the same bf% so people understant that 10%bf doesn’t look the same on everyone.
Just thought it would be interesting to see (no pictures of 35% and up, please;).[/quote]
That would be very hard to do. Most people don’t keep records of other people at different body fat percentages. That is why general statements are made. At 10%, MOST people should be able to see their ab muscles.
Above is a picture of Bob Sapp:
In that pic he is probably around 10-11% body fat. That is just an educated guess based on taking a good number of percentages over a few years as a PT. Chances are, he isn’t below 10% and he may even be closer to 12%.
At around 8%, you are fairly lean but no striations are usually visible until you get closer to 5-6% which is what most bodybuilders compete at, especially on the NPC level. That level usually isn’t easy for most to maintain and still make much physical progress.
On the other end, 15% is usually about the point at which all of your abs have taken a hike and you are looking pretty filled out. 18-20% would cause most smaller people to pass for “chubby” and more muscular people to get described as “stocky”.
Everyone carries weight differently, however, as I had one frat brother who taped out at over 16% body fat, but every ab was visible and there is no way anyone would have guessed him at more than 10%. That is why the number means so little. It doesn’t matter if you tape out at 10% body fat…if you have no muscle and it just doesn’t look good. The number means shit for most people. They are better off going by the mirror.
You do realize that bodyfat is different for women. For one thing, they have those nice little things we call boobs. 12% for a woman is pretty damn lean. Even many hard-training women with smokin bodies will never see it (unless they’re training for a competition in which case they may briefly dip into the single digits. which is scary!).
[quote]beefcakemdphd wrote:
Ha ha,
My friend got hers tested via dexa. She came out to 18%. She is pretty lean. You can make out arm definition on her and can obviously see definition. Prior to this I would have guessed that she was 12%.
beef[/quote]
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
And here I am at about 15%…
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Nice work, bro. What’s your secret?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Everyone carries weight differently, however, as I had one frat brother who taped out at over 16% body fat, but every ab was visible and there is no way anyone would have guessed him at more than 10%. That is why the number means so little. It doesn’t matter if you tape out at 10% body fat…if you have no muscle and it just doesn’t look good. The number means shit for most people. They are better off going by the mirror.[/quote]
Did anyone catch this?
Let me summarize … (for aesthetics)the bf% number is totally irrelevant.
Bastard
[quote]Fonebone wrote:
dollarbill44 wrote:
And here I am at about 15%…
Nice work, bro. What’s your secret?[/quote]
Plenty of food and plenty of rest. Oh, and the occasional “cheat” meal. I keep my workouts REAL short: 5-10 steps at a time, some cell-phone curls, table pull-ins, alternating single arm ass wipes. I make sure I keep my workouts under 2 minutes per day.
DB
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
Fonebone wrote:
dollarbill44 wrote:
And here I am at about 15%…
Nice work, bro. What’s your secret?
Plenty of food and plenty of rest. Oh, and the occasional “cheat” meal. I keep my workouts REAL short: 5-10 steps at a time, some cell-phone curls, table pull-ins, alternating single arm ass wipes. I make sure I keep my workouts under 2 minutes per day.
DB[/quote]
Truly inspirational! You know, now that you’re getting ripped, you might want to consider shaving to show off the cuts more.
Me at 12% according to 3-site caliper test in 2001.
Me at a lower bodyfat percentage (7-8%?).
[quote]The3toedSloth wrote:
In case you missed it in the other thread. Dunno what % this guy is…
|/ 3Toes[/quote]
Synthol! Synthol!
Don’t go by calipers too much. I had a three-site caliper test and a underwater test taken on the same day.The calipers put me at around 7% and the underwater put me at 13.6%
How accurate those numbers were though was unclear b/c: