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Body fat percentage estimate?

patrickconradgorton
patrickconradgorton Posts: 7 Member
edited December 2024 in Introduce Yourself
Hi I am 20 and one week into a 12 week cut; aim to get lean. I weight 195 lbs at 5ft 10 (30 lbs overweight!) no idea about body fat percentage so any help would be appreciated thanks :)

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  • watts6151
    watts6151 Posts: 993 Member
    Ball park 25%
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    patrickconradgorton wrote: »
    Hi I am 20 and one week into a 12 week cut; aim to get lean. I weight 195 lbs at 5ft 10 (30 lbs overweight!) no idea about body fat percentage so any help would be appreciated thanks :)

    why are you only cutting for 12 weeks?
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    12 weeks isn't likely to be long enough so don't think it's wise to put a rigid timescale on it.
    You would do better to track using photos and tape measurements IMHO.

    25% is a reasonable guess but could be higher - but pretty much irrelevant. You know and can see you are overweight and overfat so not sure putting a number on it adds to that knowledge.

    Train well while you are cutting. Best of luck.
  • neugebauer52
    neugebauer52 Posts: 1,120 Member
    Better to have no idea then to worry about percentages. Every body carries it's weight differently. How do we feel? Healthy? Happy? Relaxed? Loved? If not - that should be something to worry about!
  • Slaeggan
    Slaeggan Posts: 1 Member
    If you really wish know your percentages, this is a good way to get a good figure :
    https://newatlas.com/body-fat-index-rfm-bmi/56096/
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