What's your bodyfat percentage?

[Kev]

I've been working out for the last 5 weeks now in an attempt to get into good enough shape to move out of my fatties only shagging phase and get to nail plenty of average looking birds.

When I started my bodyfat percentage according to my Tanita scales was 20.8% and put me into the just overweight category.

5 short weeks later and it now reads 19.1% a pretty healthy reduction I think.

I've come down to 145.5 lbs from 148 too and my target is to drop below 140 for the first time in 12 years (cancer wastage not withstanding of course) and then start to bulk up with a bit of muscle building.

My long term goal is for my scales to read 15% bodyfat which would be pretty impressive for an almost 36 year old man I think.

I'd love to think I could get down to sub 10%, but that may be beyond me.

So for those who know it, what's yours?

[Kev]

Interestingly according to simple online calculators my bodyfat is 16.7% and my BMI 22.4 which is pretty much ideal.

I think I'm a little fatter than that, mainly because I have very little muscle.

But as this is me at the bottom it's not bad and gives me something to build from.

I'd hate to start with a BMI of like 30 or something.

[ICB]

Well i haven't had my body fat percentage taken, but i can clearly see my sixpack. Which normally means below 10 percent, so i'd say atleast a good 9 percent body fat.

[Kev]

Well i haven't had my body fat percentage taken, but i can clearly see my sixpack. Which normally means below 10 percent, so i'd say atleast a good 9 percent body fat.

Fuck you too

[Gandalf]

How do you work out what your body fat percentage is? I really have no idea how that works....

I'm a lanky skinny, bugger with a devilish metabolism so I can't see my body fat ratio being that high, but would have no idea how to score it. I'm 6'3 and and weigh in at about 76-77kg/167-169lbs (not that I would ever weigh in mind!). Not a whole lot of lard I could trim. I don't have a six pack or anything though, so I'm sure there is something there, but not a whole heap.

[Gandalf]

No, that's not quite true, I just did a cm to inches conversion and I am actually 6'2. I am sorry for any damage caused by this misinformation. Particularly to Bruce Lee who has an idealised image of me. I may have broken his poor little heart.

[Youngblood]

Right now am probs over 10% easy, maybe like 11-12% I'd guess. I'm not far off in stature from you miles and as well weight, but probs 6-8 lbs heavier and an inch shorter.

I got no current 6 pack either. To be honest bout the 6 pack deal, that don't mean a lot. I've had it, but not cuz of how great of shape I was in, but because I had to cut weight, and water weight to make fights. At one point I was close to 5% bodyfat and I looked freakishly ripped. Did that to get to 154lbs a but more then a year ago for a provincial tournament. And it was easily the worst condition I'd ever been in, in regards to healthy for the sake of fighting.

[skel1983]

I've been working out for the last 5 weeks now in an attempt to get into good enough shape to move out of my fatties only shagging phase and get to nail plenty of average looking birds.

When I started my bodyfat percentage according to my Tanita scales was 20.8% and put me into the just overweight category.

5 short weeks later and it now reads 19.1% a pretty healthy reduction I think.

I've come down to 145.5 lbs from 148 too and my target is to drop below 140 for the first time in 12 years (cancer wastage not withstanding of course) and then start to bulk up with a bit of muscle building.

My long term goal is for my scales to read 15% bodyfat which would be pretty impressive for an almost 36 year old man I think.

I'd love to think I could get down to sub 10%, but that may be beyond me.

So for those who know it, what's yours?

How tall are you? Why would you want to below 140 lbs unless you are a dwarf

[Kev]

I've been working out for the last 5 weeks now in an attempt to get into good enough shape to move out of my fatties only shagging phase and get to nail plenty of average looking birds.

When I started my bodyfat percentage according to my Tanita scales was 20.8% and put me into the just overweight category.

5 short weeks later and it now reads 19.1% a pretty healthy reduction I think.

I've come down to 145.5 lbs from 148 too and my target is to drop below 140 for the first time in 12 years (cancer wastage not withstanding of course) and then start to bulk up with a bit of muscle building.

My long term goal is for my scales to read 15% bodyfat which would be pretty impressive for an almost 36 year old man I think.

I'd love to think I could get down to sub 10%, but that may be beyond me.

So for those who know it, what's yours?

How tall are you? Why would you want to below 140 lbs unless you are a dwarf

Not a dwarf, a hobbit!

I'm 5 ft 7.5 in. I don't want to permanently be a 10 stone weakling but I'd like to lose the bodyfat I have. I am not overweight at all according to my BMI but I have little muscle and so the weight I do have is fat. I reckon I need to lose about 10 lbs of fat to look totally lean, which would be about right when you consider all the 5 ft 7 in boxers in the featherweight division.

Once I've lost the fat then I intend to switch my intentions to muscle building and I'll go on a bulking program, hoping to add 10 lbs of muscle.

So my longterm plan is to actually weigh the same as before I started 10 stone 7, but replace 10 lbs of fat with 10 lbs of muscle.

You can't burn fat and build muscle at the same so I want to lose the fat first, plus I find cardio more enjoyable than heavy weights session as I can do it sitting down!

[skel1983]

I've been working out for the last 5 weeks now in an attempt to get into good enough shape to move out of my fatties only shagging phase and get to nail plenty of average looking birds.

When I started my bodyfat percentage according to my Tanita scales was 20.8% and put me into the just overweight category.

5 short weeks later and it now reads 19.1% a pretty healthy reduction I think.

I've come down to 145.5 lbs from 148 too and my target is to drop below 140 for the first time in 12 years (cancer wastage not withstanding of course) and then start to bulk up with a bit of muscle building.

My long term goal is for my scales to read 15% bodyfat which would be pretty impressive for an almost 36 year old man I think.

I'd love to think I could get down to sub 10%, but that may be beyond me.

So for those who know it, what's yours?

How tall are you? Why would you want to below 140 lbs unless you are a dwarf

Not a dwarf, a hobbit!

I'm 5 ft 7.5 in. I don't want to permanently be a 10 stone weakling but I'd like to lose the bodyfat I have. I am not overweight at all according to my BMI but I have little muscle and so the weight I do have is fat. I reckon I need to lose about 10 lbs of fat to look totally lean, which would be about right when you consider all the 5 ft 7 in boxers in the featherweight division.

Once I've lost the fat then I intend to switch my intentions to muscle building and I'll go on a bulking program, hoping to add 10 lbs of muscle.

So my longterm plan is to actually weigh the same as before I started 10 stone 7, but replace 10 lbs of fat with 10 lbs of muscle.

You can't burn fat and build muscle at the same so I want to lose the fat first, plus I find cardio more enjoyable than heavy weights session as I can do it sitting down!

I am no expert but it surely would be a lot easier to bulk than strip, while you are bulking you can build the muscle rather than loose all the fat then try build the muscle with no fat at all. But each to there own, I was doing a lot of running recently 8 miles every other day but I have had a lot on recently and neglected it I need to get back into it, I am currently around 172 lbs around 5 10.5, I would like to be around 175 with a bit of size, at the moment I am a bit heavy round the gut and breast area.

[Kev]

How tall are you? Why would you want to below 140 lbs unless you are a dwarf

Not a dwarf, a hobbit!

I'm 5 ft 7.5 in. I don't want to permanently be a 10 stone weakling but I'd like to lose the bodyfat I have. I am not overweight at all according to my BMI but I have little muscle and so the weight I do have is fat. I reckon I need to lose about 10 lbs of fat to look totally lean, which would be about right when you consider all the 5 ft 7 in boxers in the featherweight division.

Once I've lost the fat then I intend to switch my intentions to muscle building and I'll go on a bulking program, hoping to add 10 lbs of muscle.

So my longterm plan is to actually weigh the same as before I started 10 stone 7, but replace 10 lbs of fat with 10 lbs of muscle.

You can't burn fat and build muscle at the same so I want to lose the fat first, plus I find cardio more enjoyable than heavy weights session as I can do it sitting down!

I am no expert but it surely would be a lot easier to bulk than strip, while you are bulking you can build the muscle rather than loose all the fat then try build the muscle with no fat at all. But each to there own, I was doing a lot of running recently 8 miles every other day but I have had a lot on recently and neglected it I need to get back into it, I am currently around 172 lbs around 5 10.5, I would like to be around 175 with a bit of size, at the moment I am a bit heavy round the gut and breast area.

The other issue is because I have chronic pulmonary fibrosis (lung damage) cardiovascular exercise is paramount. I really need to be working on my aerobic fitness first to get my heart rate down a bit. I am doing weights as well, but only a full body workout of 8 exercises, 2 sets for each twice a week. It's really light weight, just aiming to build reps from 10 to 15 for each exercise then move up the weight and start at 10 again.

I'm just not in the physical condition to really start pumping iron. I feel much better already though and have lost an inch off my waist and 2.5 lbs in 5 weeks which is pretty good going I think.

[HattonTheHammer]

Not a dwarf, a hobbit!

I'm 5 ft 7.5 in. I don't want to permanently be a 10 stone weakling but I'd like to lose the bodyfat I have. I am not overweight at all according to my BMI but I have little muscle and so the weight I do have is fat. I reckon I need to lose about 10 lbs of fat to look totally lean, which would be about right when you consider all the 5 ft 7 in boxers in the featherweight division.

Once I've lost the fat then I intend to switch my intentions to muscle building and I'll go on a bulking program, hoping to add 10 lbs of muscle.

So my longterm plan is to actually weigh the same as before I started 10 stone 7, but replace 10 lbs of fat with 10 lbs of muscle.

You can't burn fat and build muscle at the same so I want to lose the fat first, plus I find cardio more enjoyable than heavy weights session as I can do it sitting down!

I am no expert but it surely would be a lot easier to bulk than strip, while you are bulking you can build the muscle rather than loose all the fat then try build the muscle with no fat at all. But each to there own, I was doing a lot of running recently 8 miles every other day but I have had a lot on recently and neglected it I need to get back into it, I am currently around 172 lbs around 5 10.5, I would like to be around 175 with a bit of size, at the moment I am a bit heavy round the gut and breast area.

The other issue is because I have chronic pulmonary fibrosis (lung damage) cardiovascular exercise is paramount. I really need to be working on my aerobic fitness first to get my heart rate down a bit. I am doing weights as well, but only a full body workout of 8 exercises, 2 sets for each twice a week. It's really light weight, just aiming to build reps from 10 to 15 for each exercise then move up the weight and start at 10 again.

I'm just not in the physical condition to really start pumping iron. I feel much better already though and have lost an inch off my waist and 2.5 lbs in 5 weeks which is pretty good going I think.

It certainly is mate, inch off the waist is extremely impressive

Im just one of those guys who gains/loses weight really easily. Im a good 13 and a half stone at the mo (biggest ive ever been) and yes i am indeed some what of a fatty right now.

Given myself from saturday (may 1st) till the end of july to be back down to 168pounds and am convinced im gonna do it