Juddog
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Juddog
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Since when is 9% BF slightly out of shape?Originally posted by: Juddog
BMI index sucks for weightlifters. When I was into lifting when I was younger, I weighed 195 at 6'2 with only 9 % BF (which is slightly out of shape but fairly muscular), yet BMI showed as 25.
When I was at 9 % I was biking to work every day, so 45 minute of biking 5 days per week, plus lifting 3 times per week for an hour to hour and a half. My brother was at 4 % BF, that's what I would consider to be ideal BF and it was what I was shooting for; at 9 % I still had a little bit of flab around the midsection and I couldn't ever quite seem to hit that bodybuilder look with the 6-pack abs and all that. My arms, shoulders and legs looked muscular but my belly still looked slightly flabby.
you more than likely weren't at an accurate 9%
Both the electronic scale which measures bodyfat and a trainer at the gym told me 9%. My arms looked pumped up, nice and veiny with some striations visible, legs looked pumped up, back looked muscular, even my neck was muscular (I had a lot of trouble at the time finding the right shirts because my neck was 17.5 inches but my shirt size was only large, so most shirts I bought had a huge flap where my stomach was).
I looked fit, my stomach was flat with a little patch of fat at the bottom, it just didn't have the 6-pack look to it, that's all I'm saying, it just looked flat. No matter how hard I worked out I just couldn't seem to get rid of that little pouch. Keep in mind that I was rather fat in high school and worked a lot of it off, so it may have been some kind of residue fat that just was too stubborn to go away. My brother at 4 % bodyfat had abs you could see every striation.
Maybe I was doing the wrong kind of abdominal exercise, who knows, or it could have just been an effect of being fat and then losing a bunch of weight.