[quote]FattyFat wrote:
This thread is ridiculous.
If you’ve dieted down at least once, you’ll know what to look for and how to gauge your progress and your lbm-to-bf ratio best.
If you haven’t, you should get a DEXA scan.
If you’re big and think you’re not fat, the best way is to let average non-lifting people decide. They usually don’t care all that much for tree-trunk legs, boulder shoulders, big guns, bulging pecs, shapely glutes and a thick wide back: they just take a look at you and instantly decide if you’re fat or not. Of course, proportions and clothing can play a big role in making one look better or worse.
So, I sez, the best way to gauge your progress is to go swimming, mebbe prance a bit around (in a cool way, of course) and see how people react to your body. Are the boyz envious? Are the gals like “Wowsers! I bet he can break me in half and screw me six ways from sunday!” swoon
If you’ve got a lot of muscle mass and fat, you’re fat, no matter how athletic, muscular and strong you are (been there, done that).
I didn’t want to weigh in on the whole Professor X debate, but HeavyTriple was out of line guesstimating Professor X’s (do you have some other name, dude? You’re no professor, you’re a dentist.) bodyfat to be closer to 30 % than to 20 %. That’s kinda ridiculous: didn’t he recently provide a frontal body shot (not seriously flexed, afaik) where you could see some of his abs, rather little pec fat, semi-conditioned arms and delts? Came across as a whimpy sucker punch.
If I were Professor X and went to the trouble of actually providing photos to shut the naysayers up regarding the body fat allegations, I’d provide body shots in boxers in good lighting: frontal, back and side poses to get an appreciation of his body fat distribution and muscle mass.
If it were me, though, I’d trim down (I’m sure that body’d look much more impressive with less bodyfat) and not provide photos at all. Why try and convince strangers how big my dick is? People will always try to tell you you’ve got a shlort, now matter how gargantuan and sleek of a shlong you actually sport. And if you’re going out of your way to actually meet and show them your meat, they’ll cry “rape, rape”.
Here’s a few tiaras for all of you. And thanks for carrying this thread, all of you: it’s really entertaining.
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FF, a hetero hunk in e-love with all of you.
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I’m also way cooler than all of you combined (yes, I know that CT posted in here: his Quebecois accent takes away from his many cool points, but being a European and fluent in French, I might be a tad biased)
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I realize this post was 5 days ago, but I’ll respond anyway. Only a fool would suggest that it’s ridiculous to guess the bodyfat of a person who stoutly refuses to ever have it measured accurately, especially when you consider that I actually have experience measuring these sorts of things.
Now if you want to look at a grainy phone picture as proof that he is less than 20% bodyfat, you might be that fool. The guy has started multiple “geek shit” threads for fuck’s sake and yet somehow can’t take a picture with a camera. How someone like you can continue to give this guy the benefit of the doubt is beyond me. Do you believe his claim that he’s somehow gained 10 pounds since his avatar while getting leaner? If so, I think we’ve answered the fool question.
Want to get a good guess at his bodyfat? Go watch the boot camp videos. HD cameras are much better for assessing bodyfat than phone pics.
