I love it how people think 12% is some magical unobtainable bodyfat% and
that staying in that range is so dangerous and destroying your health and hormones lol.
once you dip below 15% muscle and strength loss becomes noticeable.
How much noticeable depends on several factors, but you will notice it.
What a load of fricking horseshit. There's absolutely nothing that happens when you "dip below 15%". The only arguement there is that once you hit 15% and you have started from ~20-25% you have already been cutting for months, even up to a half a year. So when your body has been in a caloric deficit for half a year and you are still continueing and trying to lose last percentages (and just mathematically speaking it get's harder to lose those percentages) your overall energy levels are just very low so your strength is down too. This is however something that picks up REALLY quick when you switch to maintenance/bulk. It's like week or two at most and you are back at your peak.
The muscle loss is close to a zero. Your body will not just start eating through your muscles lmao. And even if it does it would be like 100g at most. Like think about it, it takes a year to gain 1kg of lean muscle mass, you think your body will just rid of that when you drop from let's say 85kg to 80kg? None of that will be muscle. You just didn't have that much muscle mass to begin with and you lost size because of fat and water weight. You look leaner and smaller but the same muscle tissue is still there.
When you are getting stupid ripped as natty, talkinbg 4-6% bodyfat THAT'S when it starts becoming a reality but not in the 10-15% range.
>how come that in pics like that the low bf% als happen to be the most muscular.
because most fat fricks have frickall muscle you moron.
do you think fatties that look that chart up on the internet are like eddie hall? no, they are 100% fat 0% muscle, that's why.
there's plenty of skellies they could use instead.
Showing all these different people with wildly different muscle mass doesnt really show the difference when a person goes from 20 down to 15.
At what point will fat loss start to severely affect maintaining muscle while cutting? Is it highly dependant on genetic predispositions?
Currently 16~18% aiming for 10~12%.
So far lifting in a caloric deficit worked just fine going from 20~22 down to 16~18, no muscles lost (but I had to reduce lifting to 3 times a week from 6 times a week because it takes me more time to recover while cutting)
As a natty I feel like 15% is the ideal target, balancing between size and leanness. Though I'm currently leaning down to 10% and less to see what my face will look like.
First of all it's completely different muscle mass, different lightning, different genetics
I just wish there was some empirical way to define low bodyfat.
why do you morons repost this dumb image? this is not a bodyfat % comparison. these people don't have the same muscle composition. anorexic people are also low bf% yet they don't look like bodybuilders. not one person in this pic has the same amount of muscle as the first guy. this is so moronic
I'm somewhere between the 6-7% pic and the 10-12% pic, but only when I'm FLEXING. When I'm relaxed, I look more between 10-12% and 15%. Where does that put me? Are all of those guys flexing in the pictures?
Bullshit chart really. >Be 200lb >15% bf is 30lbs of fat, volume equals 4 gallons or 15 liters. >10% bf is 20lbs of fat, volume equals 2.6 gallons or 10 liters. >5% bf is 10lbs of fat, volume equals 1.3 gallons or 5 liters.
Pour out each of those volumes and imagine them layered over your body.
Im 35% 6ft 238lbs right now my goal is to hit 30% and im trying to be realistic. I lift 3-4 times a week including 2 hours of low intense cardio in total. I dont really count calories everyday but when I do its between 2200-2500.
In what timeframe could I achieve 30%?
15-19%
unless you're trying to show off or are competing it's the best as you're healthy without having to try too hard
Was this guy a moron?
He was dead before 70, guessing that sleep less bullshit didn’t do him any favors.
>wanting to live past 70
No, he left at the right time.
idk, but im sure aristotle posters are moronic.
definitely this
beefy muscle athletic bf%
Above 15% is suboptimal for hormones production
Too much estrogen
fake news
I love it how people think 12% is some magical unobtainable bodyfat% and
that staying in that range is so dangerous and destroying your health and hormones lol.
What a load of fricking horseshit. There's absolutely nothing that happens when you "dip below 15%". The only arguement there is that once you hit 15% and you have started from ~20-25% you have already been cutting for months, even up to a half a year. So when your body has been in a caloric deficit for half a year and you are still continueing and trying to lose last percentages (and just mathematically speaking it get's harder to lose those percentages) your overall energy levels are just very low so your strength is down too. This is however something that picks up REALLY quick when you switch to maintenance/bulk. It's like week or two at most and you are back at your peak.
The muscle loss is close to a zero. Your body will not just start eating through your muscles lmao. And even if it does it would be like 100g at most. Like think about it, it takes a year to gain 1kg of lean muscle mass, you think your body will just rid of that when you drop from let's say 85kg to 80kg? None of that will be muscle. You just didn't have that much muscle mass to begin with and you lost size because of fat and water weight. You look leaner and smaller but the same muscle tissue is still there.
When you are getting stupid ripped as natty, talkinbg 4-6% bodyfat THAT'S when it starts becoming a reality but not in the 10-15% range.
>it takes a year to gain 1kg of lean muscle mass
wot
10-12%
Fat subhuman
17 for men
40+ for women
how come that in pics like that the low bf% als happen to be the most muscular. it skews the whole chart
anyway whats my bf%?
188cm / 78kg
6'2 / 171lbs
>anyway whats my bf%?
DYEL mode
Prolly mogs you and most of IST
I’d say post body but I already know you won’t
There’s literally no way to tell your bf% from that.
10-12%
It's time for a bulk son
120% you need to start cutting now
too fat
looks like 5%
9-10%
Work on your obliques if you want to look aeathstic
>how come that in pics like that the low bf% als happen to be the most muscular.
because most fat fricks have frickall muscle you moron.
do you think fatties that look that chart up on the internet are like eddie hall? no, they are 100% fat 0% muscle, that's why.
there's plenty of skellies they could use instead.
Showing all these different people with wildly different muscle mass doesnt really show the difference when a person goes from 20 down to 15.
Your neck is very long
Do you fap with your left arm?
Is this what low weight, high rep workouts turn into? More veins than muscle?
Im about as veiny as that guy and I do low reps high weight strength work
40pc
At what point will fat loss start to severely affect maintaining muscle while cutting? Is it highly dependant on genetic predispositions?
Currently 16~18% aiming for 10~12%.
So far lifting in a caloric deficit worked just fine going from 20~22 down to 16~18, no muscles lost (but I had to reduce lifting to 3 times a week from 6 times a week because it takes me more time to recover while cutting)
once you dip below 15% muscle and strength loss becomes noticeable.
How much noticeable depends on several factors, but you will notice it.
homie, I have 6% body fat and I don't look like this.
did an online calculator tell you that?
A chick with some high tech weighing scale.
let me guess, her name was albert einstein?
those things have a margin of error of about 10% post body
>a margin of error of about 10%
then what is even the point of them to begin with?
so that dietitians look like they are capable of doing stuff you can't do at home yourself.
be sold ofc
i look like the pic at 20% and this thing told me i was at 38%
correction
it told me my upper body was at 38 and my lower body was at 22
because you have no muscle mass. these shit infographs were made by some dyel skeleton homosexual
As a natty I feel like 15% is the ideal target, balancing between size and leanness. Though I'm currently leaning down to 10% and less to see what my face will look like.
This fricking chart is moronic
First of all it's completely different muscle mass, different lightning, different genetics
I just wish there was some empirical way to define low bodyfat.
10%
14-16%. Maintainable year round and looks good
Does pant size change at all once you get below 20%?
The highest % where your abs are visible, so work abs so they can be visible at a higher bf%.
why do you morons repost this dumb image? this is not a bodyfat % comparison. these people don't have the same muscle composition. anorexic people are also low bf% yet they don't look like bodybuilders. not one person in this pic has the same amount of muscle as the first guy. this is so moronic
I'm somewhere between the 6-7% pic and the 10-12% pic, but only when I'm FLEXING. When I'm relaxed, I look more between 10-12% and 15%. Where does that put me? Are all of those guys flexing in the pictures?
Bullshit chart really.
>Be 200lb
>15% bf is 30lbs of fat, volume equals 4 gallons or 15 liters.
>10% bf is 20lbs of fat, volume equals 2.6 gallons or 10 liters.
>5% bf is 10lbs of fat, volume equals 1.3 gallons or 5 liters.
Pour out each of those volumes and imagine them layered over your body.
20%
How hard is it to move from 20% to 10 - 12%?
About 8-10% hards.
Im 35% 6ft 238lbs right now my goal is to hit 30% and im trying to be realistic. I lift 3-4 times a week including 2 hours of low intense cardio in total. I dont really count calories everyday but when I do its between 2200-2500.
In what timeframe could I achieve 30%?
What about Jeff's chart?
About 15%? Help a brother out please fellas.
What bf is that? I want to reach 10%
You look like your body ate a lemon
CURSED IMAGE DO NOT OPEN
Just opened it, explain?
Why moron it’s just bad lighting here is a better one
100%