Weight / Fat loss

What was your comparison?

sixpack yet Salter reckons I am 29% BF.

For many years I was measured by the same person with calipers so have a good idea of what my BF% is relative to my appearance.

Fat arse?

Have you set the activity level and everything correctly? I read the manual on mine one day and dropped 15% body fat instantly.

Fat arse?

Have you set the activity level and everything correctly? I read the manual on mine one day and dropped 15% body fat instantly.

Yeah did that, then took them back to Argos and tried some others.

180kg full ROM squat, fat arse? probably not

68k ROM

You guys with your arguments.
DEXA or GTFO.
Skin calipers work, but they are only as good as the person who does them.

I have tried a few of the Salter scales, the body fat% is way out on them all.

Mine is spot on. I have also been measured with calipers.

Hippy i said a proper mix of micro-nutrients

Mine was around 10%, now sadly in the 11's.

Lunch today was mainly apples.

BMI is a pretty shaky guide for healthy weight. Better to go on body fat %

This ^.

What is a healthy body fat percentage though?

Male:
Excess:
25+
Average:
18-24
Fitness:
14-18
Athletes:
6-13
Essential:
2-5

For women add about 8%.

Mine is spot on. I have also been measured with calipers.

No they won't be and neither are calipers.

Male:
Excess:
25+
Average:
18-24
Fitness:
14-18
Athletes:
6-13
Essential:
2-5

For women add about 8%.

I got an old text book that had the average male at 12.5%, presumably before we became the fattest cunts in Europe.

My only properly smart shirt is now officially too big for me. As are ALL my suits. Losing weight is expensive.

shoulders are still too small ;)

bloody good effort, you're going to be too light to play rugby soon though!

My only properly smart shirt is now officially too big for me. As are ALL my suits. Losing weight is expensive.

Think of all the money you are saving on shaving attire.

Our fullback* is 85kg. Might ask if I can play outside centre...........

I have been playing rugby with the cunt for 6 years and only recently learned that he is head of European Sales for Goldman Sachs.

Shaving attire? What, like a special pair of pants you only wear while shaving?

a more fitting joke would have been, "think of all the money you are saving on shampoo/hair gel/combs/you're a bald wanker"

Shaving attire? What, like a special pair of pants you only wear while shaving?

I have a full outfit.

Those things (some digital scales and also hand held gizmos) that purport to measure body fat percentage by passing an electrical current through the body - are they actually accurate? Seems like witchcraft to me.

My take on those is that they provide a point of reference if you use them over time- what they say may not be accurate in terms of the number they display, but the trend is interesting.

i.e. when they show a downward trend my sixpack does appear, and when the figures trend upward as they do at the moment I am indeed a fat cunt.

Before (c 78kgs):

Today: 67.8kgs:

I haven't done that before.
The change is quite something, abs still need a little more work.
And 3 more kgs to go...

Bloody hell H, I wouldn't recognise you.

You too!
Its been a good 1/2 year.
VO2max was 60 the other day, so I'm fitter than I've ever been...

Our fullback* is 85kg. Might ask if I can play outside centre...........

I qualify for front row with my 85.5Kg.

I tend to get fecked up nearly every 15s match though. I'm also too heavy and slow to play sevens without my lungs inverting.

FML.

Mine is spot on. I have also been measured with calipers.
Hippy i said a proper mix of micro-nutrients

What is this bollocks? It's fuel for cycling.
Eat your proper food and your vitamin pills afterwards.

Male:
Excess:
25+
Average:
18-24
Fitness:
14-18
Athletes:
6-13
Essential:
2-5

For women add about 8%.

Ha! I'm not even an athlete. Fuck you, body fat chart.

I'll give the doctor that made it up a race, if he beats me he can call me fat all he likes, but if I win, I get to bbq him.