5% body fat!?

[CompensatingForMuscleMass Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close CompensatingForMuscleMass]

These numbers are being pulled out of asses, Bruce Lee had maybe 7% bodyfat. Bodybuilders on stage have like 3-4% (virtually no fat under skin).

There's no way faithandhope is 5%, I doubt he's even below 10% judging from his picture. It's a crap picture, but good enough to see that he's certainly above 8%. His legs would have to be seriously striated for him to even approach 7% with an upper body with so much fat left.

If you don't believe it, test it yourself. Take fat from your lower chest (near nipple) and see how thick the skin is there. If you are at 5% then it should be literally as thick as 2 sheets of paper. Same with your legs and just about every part of your body. That's 5%. The tests are just inaccurate, virtually all of them are. It's good to compare and see if you lost fat or muscle, but to actually determine your exact bodycomposition is useless.

Go look for Martin Berkhans pictures on leangains. That's 7% with a shit ton of muscle.

[camaro Senior Member Member of the month June 2013 Find all posts View Profile Close camaro]

8% and above is recommended.Under that isn't healthy.

[MovingUp Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close MovingUp]

Bruce Lee had 5% body fat, you could see his every muscle.
Ronnie the unbelieveable Coleman had 3% for one show and you could literally see his organs moving around.Scary.
3% is as low as a person can go, no essential fatty acids=death so i agree.

well it's more like 4% usually .. but then again there's a girl that is known as the ugliest girl on the planet in a youtube video that went viral that has a disease where she cant put on any adipose tissue (body fat) so she eats like a million times a day just to stay alive and looks gross but yet she's survived ... so it's not impossible to be at any %, however you wont go down below 6-7% naturally for too long ... Why even bring up ronnie coleman? he takes huge amounts of steroids ... even bruce lee has been claimed to take steroids to maintain his lean physique of about 6-7% ... in the end you guys just need to learn a bit more about this stuff before you talk about it

[Hanma Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hanma]

Don't use electronic devices, they're not accurate. Mechanical ones measure your bf better.

[faithandhope Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close faithandhope]

These numbers are being pulled out of asses, Bruce Lee had maybe 7% bodyfat. Bodybuilders on stage have like 3-4% (virtually no fat under skin).

There's no way faithandhope is 5%, I doubt he's even below 10% judging from his picture. It's a crap picture, but good enough to see that he's certainly above 8%. His legs would have to be seriously striated for him to even approach 7% with an upper body with so much fat left.

LOL You are an ignorant person, I said I was 6.5% on my very most recent test, and I know its a shit picture I have no fat on my upper body though. Actually if I flex my upper body, you can see all the muscle fibers on everything except my abs. "I doubt hes even 10%" LMAO

[Pegasus AdministratorPE Gym EditorPEGym Hero ☺ Admin of the Month Mar 2015 Find all posts View Profile Close Pegasus]

Since there is no test currently that is very accurate ,I don't know why you guys get upset. What was formly regarded as the gold standard of bf testing the dunk test started turning up guys with negative bf% ! No other test is accurate either, so the whole field can't be taken that serious.

[GoingForGold Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close GoingForGold]

Once again: men going crazy over numbers because they can't understand them. Should we break our weight down into body bone % and body organ %? Healthy living is healthy living and measuring body fat % should be an afterthought. If you look lean, feel lean and perform lean; you are lean.

[faithandhope Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close faithandhope]

lol I really don't give a shit what % its at and like I said I'm in the best shape of my life anyways so it doesn't matter. I just don't like being told I'm wrong, or stupid, or lying. Sorry for taking a hostile standpoint, I win anyways

[wind chill Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wind chill]

faithandhope buy a digital scale.I spent good money on one and they measure your bf%,muslce mass and water content.They are very accurate if you ask me.Either that or calipers.
Tests on the internet are BS.

[MovingUp Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close MovingUp]

the scales that measure it are horribly inaccurate, i posted a link that explained a couple very expensive ways to measure with new technology ... so there are ways that are accurate .. but not very convenient ... honestly the best way to test is just look at it and know what they look like .. a good pic and i could give you a very good estimation lol but whatever yea i agree with him, even if it's 8% or 9% instead of 6~ still amazing shape and awesome job by him

[Pegasus AdministratorPE Gym EditorPEGym Hero ☺ Admin of the Month Mar 2015 Find all posts View Profile Close Pegasus]

faithandhope buy a digital scale.I spent good money on one and they measure your bf%,muslce mass and water content.They are very accurate if you ask me.Either that or calipers.
Tests on the internet are BS.

Digital scales are very inaccurate.
Only accurate method I know of you have to be dead first.

[faithandhope Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close faithandhope]

faithandhope buy a digital scale.I spent good money on one and they measure your bf%,muslce mass and water content.They are very accurate if you ask me.Either that or calipers.
Tests on the internet are BS.

I didn't do an internet test? I already said I got tested and was 6.5%. Which is the MOST I have ever been. I don't see how anyone can judge based on a small photo thats sized down which makes everything wider, lol. I look bigger in that picture than I am

[Pegasus AdministratorPE Gym EditorPEGym Hero ☺ Admin of the Month Mar 2015 Find all posts View Profile Close Pegasus]

the scales that measure it are horribly inaccurate, i posted a link that explained a couple very expensive ways to measure with new technology ... so there are ways that are accurate .. but not very convenient ... honestly the best way to test is just look at it and know what they look like .. a good pic and i could give you a very good estimation lol but whatever yea i agree with him, even if it's 8% or 9% instead of 6~ still amazing shape and awesome job by him

Not impressed with the link. It states that hydrostatic testing is very accurate ,as mentioned in a previous post in this thread this method turned up negative bf%. When looked at closely the underlying research was flawed. As for waist measure being accurate ,what a laugh, many athletes build a lot of muscle through the core area which increases waist measure.

[Pegasus AdministratorPE Gym EditorPEGym Hero ☺ Admin of the Month Mar 2015 Find all posts View Profile Close Pegasus]

I didn't do an internet test? I already said I got tested and was 6.5%. Which is the MOST I have ever been. I don't see how anyone can judge based on a small photo thats sized down which makes everything wider, lol. I look bigger in that picture than I am

Ok you have made your point.

[MovingUp Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close MovingUp]

i saw somewhere some guy was looked at in some new machine that showed his bone density, muscle and fat down to the pound or something, and over a year even his bone density went up and that accounted for weight gain .. seems like it was very accurate but i cant remember what it was