Ladies with Body Fat < 18% and visible six packs

albayin
albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have a question for you: when you sit down how does your lower belly look like? does it have a small roll of fat sticking out? Just curious... please don't beat me. :flowerforyou:
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  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Not that i meet your requirements, but I don't really think anyone's stomach looks good when sitting.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    Not that i meet your requirements, but I don't really think anyone's stomach looks good when sitting.

    ^ Agreed.

    Just from my own limited experience, at about ~9% bodyfat when I sit down I look obese.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    Not that i meet your requirements, but I don't really think anyone's stomach looks good when sitting.

    ^ Agreed.

    Just from my own limited experience, at about ~9% bodyfat when I sit down I look obese.

    ^ not obese for me, but def overweight, lol

    OP: Think about you are pushing the same amount of fat into a smaller area, so it has to go somewhere
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    thank you everyone. Not that my body fat is as low but this gives me new perspectives. :)
  • Homemaker57
    Homemaker57 Posts: 106 Member
    You could be extremely low fat and still get rolls of tissue, crinkling, and flab when you sit. In order for you to be able stand straight and bend backwards, there has to be enough tissue to allow for that. When you bend the other way, by sitting, that tissue bunches up.


    Poochy sitting tummy = everyone.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    Yep. Even the morning of my bodybuilding competition. Sat on the floor to help a friend put her shoe on, rolls everywhere. I also still have loose skin from being obese.
  • IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym
    IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym Posts: 5,573 Member
    I'm currently at 22%, but even when I was at 15%, it still rolled when I sat down, unless my back was straight.
  • MoJokes
    MoJokes Posts: 691
    Man this is good to know!
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I had flexed visible abs- soft definition unflexed- I definitely had a ways to go- but they were there- I'd say low 20's for me. (Most people widly over estimate how low their BF%- it's typically much higher than you think)

    regardless- I was getting definition and still had lower abs issues- but I think part of that is where my uterus sits- swear to god. Even my doctor said something about it 'sitting high'

    so flat stomach I will never have....

    And when I sit- it's never pretty. Even when I'm mostly flat- it's not pretty sitting- that's mechanics of the body.
  • brynnsmom
    brynnsmom Posts: 945 Member
    Well, no six pack here but I'm pretty slim- and I haaate the way my stomach looks when I'm sitting down.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    I am wondering how these 3 women look like sitting down. :love:
    http://nerdfitness.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/womenbodyfat1.jpg

    How to insert image on this site? anyone can help please?
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    Well, no six pack here but I'm pretty slim- and I haaate the way my stomach looks when I'm sitting down.

    moi aussi, I also hate how my stomach looks when doing plank...
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    I am wondering how these 3 women look like sitting down. :love:
    womenbodyfat1.jpg

    How to insert image on this site? anyone can help please?
  • Homemaker57
    Homemaker57 Posts: 106 Member
    This conversation is why I ALWAYS sit like this:

    silhouette_of_a_woman_doing_yoga_0515-1007-2004-4453_SM.jpg



    Let gravity put the rolls in a different place. ;)
  • obsidianwings
    obsidianwings Posts: 1,237 Member
    This thread makes me happy
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    This conversation is why I ALWAYS sit like this:

    silhouette_of_a_woman_doing_yoga_0515-1007-2004-4453_SM.jpg



    Let gravity put the rolls in a different place. ;)

    not office appropriate...had to say...
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    This thread makes me happy

    glad it helped. :drinker:
  • Homemaker57
    Homemaker57 Posts: 106 Member
    Aww really? Sorry. I wasn't trying to be inappropriate. It's just supposed to be a yoga pose.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    Aww really? Sorry. I wasn't trying to be inappropriate. It's just supposed to be a yoga pose.

    I didn't think it was inappropriate, FWIW.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    Aww really? Sorry. I wasn't trying to be inappropriate. It's just supposed to be a yoga pose.

    I was saying that I can't sit like this in office. :tongue:
  • Phoenix_Warrior
    Phoenix_Warrior Posts: 1,633 Member
    Aww really? Sorry. I wasn't trying to be inappropriate. It's just supposed to be a yoga pose.

    I was saying that I can't sit like this in office. :tongue:

    It would make for an interesting day though...
  • Morgaath
    Morgaath Posts: 679 Member
    This conversation is why I ALWAYS sit like this:

    silhouette_of_a_woman_doing_yoga_0515-1007-2004-4453_SM.jpg



    Let gravity put the rolls in a different place. ;)

    not office appropriate...had to say...

    Yeah, makes it real hard to type when you sit like that.
  • manda1978
    manda1978 Posts: 525 Member
    I was about 23%BF in my profile pic and yep I had an awful belly buldge when sitting
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    This conversation is why I ALWAYS sit like this:

    silhouette_of_a_woman_doing_yoga_0515-1007-2004-4453_SM.jpg



    Let gravity put the rolls in a different place. ;)

    not office appropriate...had to say...

    Yeah, makes it real hard to type when you sit like that.

    speech recognition...
  • morkiemama
    morkiemama Posts: 894 Member
    Actually, there was a photographer who did a project on this very subject. I will see if I can find some links. However, the conclusion was everyone they photographed, models to overweight had "rolls" and "lower belly pooch" when sitting.
  • twixlepennie
    twixlepennie Posts: 1,074 Member
    My bf% is somewhere in the 17% range and my stomach is pretty firm now. When I sit down I do get a bit of a wrinkle, but my stomach has carried three babies for nine months a piece, so I'm pretty darn proud of it :wink:
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    My bf% is somewhere in the 17% range and my stomach is pretty firm now. When I sit down I do get a bit of a wrinkle, but my stomach has carried three babies for nine months a piece, so I'm pretty darn proud of it :wink:

    this was I thought: "wrinkles" but not rolls of fat...I am proud for you too, and jealous. :flowerforyou:
  • twixlepennie
    twixlepennie Posts: 1,074 Member
    My bf% is somewhere in the 17% range and my stomach is pretty firm now. When I sit down I do get a bit of a wrinkle, but my stomach has carried three babies for nine months a piece, so I'm pretty darn proud of it :wink:

    this was I thought: "wrinkles" but not rolls of fat...I am proud for you too, and jealous. :flowerforyou:

    :blushing:
  • Homemaker57
    Homemaker57 Posts: 106 Member
    OH. Okay. Whew, here I thought I offended you ;) They make those virtual keyboards now; you could shine it on the bottom of your desk and type that way??
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    Actually, there was a photographer who did a project on this very subject. I will see if I can find some links. However, the conclusion was everyone they photographed, models to overweight had "rolls" and "lower belly pooch" when sitting.

    This reminds me of my other curiosity: naturally thin people, I mean as thin as runway models, must have very low body fat as well...so her 15% must look different than a fitness model who packs on muscle with lower body fat on top...so a runway model may actually show a bigger pooch than a fitness model? I don't know...

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