Can you get Fatskinny

yea but a lot of times you can't see it because all the fats in the way, but a good example would be the plus sized models, larger but toned and not flabby

no, thats rubbish

What do you mean by overweight? Overweight by what standards/measure? By the scale or in body fat terms?

I agree that there are people who fatskinny . I think me myslef I am this case of person . I have been exercising my entire life since I was three . Ballet for 12 years , then dancing , gym , aerobics etc. I had always been more firm than many of my skinny friends , had more stamina , no celluite and fat jumping around , and I am also very flexible , I can do a full split . Still I always struggled with my weight . I have never been obese but I have to admit I am overweight I weight 79 kg- 174 lb but I have 34% body fat . I have many more muscles than my friends who weight 120 lb and complain all the time when they have to walk a km . I had boulimia though so eating tones of food and then throwing up hasnt hepled my body or my metabolism . Anyway I think overweight people who have muscles and firm bodies exist although its not so often .

do you mean like this guy (Vasili Alexeyev)?



he set 80 world records during his career and won 2 olympic gold medals (1972, 1976)

his best clean & press was 521lbs and best clean & jerk was 564lbs.

clearly he had developed muscles, but they were well hidden by fat.

I'm almost overweight according to BMI, at 22% body fat and my lean body mass is around 101lb which is in the healthy range for my height. I'm 5'1" so the healthy BMI range for my height is 100-132lb. So if you remove all the fat from my body I'd still be in that healthy range, even though 0% body fat = dead (though it would be impossible for anyone to diet to such low body fat without starving off all their muscle in the process.

I wouldn't call this "fatskinny" though... I'm nether fat nor skinny, I'm large framed and muscular. 22% body fat is not fat (it's right in the middle of the healthy range for women) ... and there's no way I'd qualify as skinny either.

People who have a lot of muscle mass and quite a high body fat percentage, I'd call "bear mode"..... like Vasili Alexeyev (pic posted earlier in the thread). I think this body type exists in women too, not just men. I used to play ice hockey and let me tell you that there are women of that body type... usually playing defence for the other team and flattening our forwards. And you can probably find them in women's rugby teams too, e.g. prop forwards. In fact before I heard the term "bear mode" I would have described the body type as "prop forward build". In fact when I played ice hockey I was quite chubby (you can't out train a bad diet...!!) so was probably the female equivalent of the "built fat" body type... i.e. like "bear mode" but less extreme (or maybe just a short version of bear mode lol so I didn't look quite so big). I would not use any word containing the word "skinny" to describe this body type. And probably not fat either, because they're not that fat, they're very heavily built and just covered in a layer of fat that hides the muscles. You'll know the difference when you skate into them. Fat people are easy to knock down in ice hockey games. Bear mode people.... not so much!!!

Alot of powerlifters that aren't worried about aesthetics fit what you would describe as fat with 'good muscle tone'

Dean Bowring.




Unfortunately as another poster mentioned they're just reffered to as fat. As I don't think skinny could be used to describe any of them.