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selina884
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Whats your current bodyfat %? Are you happy with it or do you have a goal to reach?
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Ways too high - currently around 40% , depending on how you measure it (up to 5% variation from the different measurement methods). Not happy with it at all. Trying to get it down to a healthy range with my current target at around 25%.0
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No idea - and yes I'm happy with it, whatever it is!4
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I'd advise not to get hung up on body fat. The home scales we use just aren't accurate enough to bother with. Use weight to height tables, eat a varied nutritionally rich diet, keep active and let your body do the rest. (Which it will - supremely efficiently).2
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I have no clue. I am very happy with it.3
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Yeah you folks are probably right.
I only became curious 2 days ago and it seems to have become a focus for me.0 -
don't know what it is... but i know there's a bit too much of it!1
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Pretty damn bad, but hey, I'm a work in progress. Mine is 51%.1
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WAS about 20-23%... now about 26% ish boo1
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No I am not happy with mine. 25% last time I check. I am trying to get it down to 12% and 20lbs also.1
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I'd advise you to care very much about body fat. While the home scales aren't accurate, if you use the Navy Body Fat Calculator and visual estimates with those online picture sites, you can come pretty close.
I'm currently 22% on the Navy Calculator (LOL... no) and maybe 25-26% by visual estimates.
Personally, I'd like some pesky areas to lean out a little bit more.2 -
I think I'm at about 27%, but that's a rough guess using a measuring tape and online calculator. Higher than I expected, so this has made me decide to work a little harder!1
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Around 14%. Little way to go!1
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trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?1 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »I'd advise you to care very much about body fat. While the home scales aren't accurate, if you use the Navy Body Fat Calculator and visual estimates with those online picture sites, you can come pretty close.
BF% is definitely one of those "want to have a ballpark" numbers.
I use the tape method too, which is quasi accurate. Sometimes doing a pic comparison can be hard due to where someone carries weight.
I figure I'm somewhere in the 17-22% range.
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JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
muscle mass helps.2 -
I have no idea. My guess would be 19-20%? I do like it though, but I'd like to be a little bigger with the same BF%2
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I have no clue myself. I have a flat tummy. That's mainly all I care for. Haha.0
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JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
muscle mass helps.
Thank you! The thought of losing more weight (lost 80 already) is not one I cherish; the loss is really starting to show in my face, so I'd rather not lose any more. I do a fair amount of body resistance workouts and cardio, and a small amount of kettlebell workouts, maybe I'll increase those and see if it helps..0 -
Also no idea
Oh I have a reading on a bio impedence scale
And I also went for a dexa scan
But still have no idea
Turns out even though I firmly believed that dexa would be accurate, that operators can calibrate it in different ways so all the charts and averages I've seen were irrelevant to my readings as the operator told me where I stood in relation to the people he'd scanned and suggested I took off 6-7% to be relevant to the Google charts and images. @tomteboda also explained how they worked to me and how inaccurate they can be
son, I was disappoint3 -
JustMissTracy wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Around 14%. Little way to go!
Trig...can you tell me...if I'm at 27, and at a nice weight (121)..do I really have to lose more weight to get my bf down?
No ....recomp
Protein and progressive resistance3
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