Your Fat percentage / Weight and Height

[Wyatt Earp]

Hmm, that I find hard to believe. Top world class Body Builders only get to roughly 2% body fat and they are so exhausted they can barely walk.

 

A top runner like Fordyce probably sat around 6% body fat, I think you had a wrong reading there.

 

How did you measure your body fat.? Doing it yourself using a tape measure and some computer programme wont be accurate, its an indication sure, but to be accurate you need special equipment.

I also think it's an incorrect reading.

Those body builders also totally dehydrate before they hit the stage, I have seen guys collapse after their routine.

That sort of body fat is also not achievable by just a mere metabolism nor burning it off from training hard, these guys even go as far as cutting bits of fat out of lean chicken breasts.

My dietitian has me at 9 %, the Gym at 7.something and that link earlier in the thread at 4.8 %.

I will go with the first one, I can see podge that can go.

 

 

What's your definition of endurance? Just your normal drink won't get you very far in an 8 hour race, let alone something like Baviaans or a 24hr. But if you're still keen, how about Makadas next year - 300km on a mountain bike?

Let's see if the hard man can take up the challenge.

[Me-rida]

 

Let's see is the hard man can take up the challenge.

 

 

300km, thats easy, I can do that in like only 2 months.....

[Reghard111]

Manbearpig will drop 30kgs and be 10cm shorter if he went for a bath....

[manbearpig]

Manbearpig will drop 30kgs and be 10cm shorter if he went for a bath....

You are so dead you don't even know how dead you are.

[nathrix]

Manbearpig will drop 30kgs and be 10cm shorter if he went for a bath....

 

 

You are so dead you don't even know how dead you are.

 

Chirp of the DAY YEAR!

[levett]

You guys are all too skinny!

 

For me it's

45 Years Old

113 kg

Body fat around 31%

[manbearpig]

If OPC race stopped eating right now he would die of old age before starvation.

[Pookie]

Hmmmm, seems like only our male hubbers posted their stats here

 

So, here goes :

 

Female 29, 67 kgs, 1.68m, Fat % 18. Snap, Crackle and Pop

[The expat cyclist]

I find this thread amusing. Really. It's like being in a public toilet standing at the urinal checking out the guy next to you's schlong!

 

Not that Pookie and Co will know what that means.

[MDW]

Mark, I also have residual muscle from lots of weight training in my late teens and early twenties. It took me years to put the weight on back then. Now I just want to get rid of it. x_x It's 15 years down the line but the muscle memory seems to last forever. How did you do it?

Hey Luke, its bloody hard, which is why I am a nutritional consultant today, it took a long time. My diet is really solid, people think I am a freak with it, but its not just that. My training is targeted to more slow twitch fiber movement, to reduce the density and improve endurance. For someone that used to bench press 180kg and squat around 300, I can barely bench my body weight today ha ha. I dont touch weights, I did an experiment a last year to test muscle memory, I did 10 days of strength training, I checked my body fat and weight before embarking on this exercise and I was at 68kg, 7.9% fat. 14 days later, my weight was 70.4kg and my fat was down to 7.6%.

 

I dont regret the fact that I did the heavy weights, I actually am glad I woke up early in life, most of my training partners or colleagues have medical conditions and some have passed away, from the effects of all the nonsense the body had to endure, its great to hear you went the aerobic route.

 

I think endurance triathlons is what really made the difference in my body, specifically the running and my strength comes from interval session and swimming. I find the sport makes me far more all rounded, and I feel better now than I did at age 24. So not sure if there are youngsters reading this, but remember the most important muscle in your body is your heart ;-). If you want some advice on the eating pop me an email I will see if I can help, and no, I wont charge, just here to help my peers.

 

later

M

[Wyatt Earp]

remember the most important muscle in your body is your heart

Correction, it's the second most important one, the most important one is the one MJloves MTB refers to.

[The expat cyclist]

Correction, it's the second most important one, the most important one is the one MJloves MTB refers to.

 

Nope. It is the size of your wifes right arm bicep that matters - if she is right handed of course! That is the muscle she will use when she grabs you by the throat because you accidently bumped over her nighstand and broke her R600 bottle of facial cream... Or so I have been told.

[fandacious]

186cm

63kg after sunday's race. normally 64-65kg

9% body fat

[GrumpyOldGuy]

I also think it's an incorrect reading.

Those body builders also totally dehydrate before they hit the stage, I have seen guys collapse after their routine.

That sort of body fat is also not achievable by just a mere metabolism nor burning it off from training hard, these guys even go as far as cutting bits of fat out of lean chicken breasts.

My dietitian has me at 9 %, the Gym at 7.something and that link earlier in the thread at 4.8 %.

I will go with the first one, I can see podge that can go.

 

Yeah, for a male to get below 5% body fat is really difficult, your internal organs alone have a fat protection layer which probably accounts for 2%, only body builders and top international body builders at that, get to this low body fat level and then they are totally exhausted sleeping 15 hours a day and barely moving, and even then, thy can only maintain it for a matter of days.

 

For an endurance athlete getting much below 6% is getting counter productive, at 2% body fat its unlikely you will even run to the kitchen, never mind a trail race.

 

Somewhere the reading was wrong.

[swartpiet]

32, 1.86m, 87kg, 8%bf, measured by means of skinfold test with caliper. You will get the most accurate measurement between this method and by mean of infra-red measurement.

 

I so badly want to get down to 85kg but my wife says I have no more fat to lose. From the research Ive done 6% is the bare min you should go, things gets dangerous after that.

 

If you want a professional measurement done call Dr Nico Ments(Pretoria) on 082 772 2471. They specialise in this area.

[KnobbyMech]

Manbearpig can lose another 10kg by shaving the hair on his back (yes, those ones that is standing up now)