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So, in my gym class, I have new bragging rights. Based on the machine to calculate body fat, I have the lowest body fat percentage of anyone in the class. 9%. And what's more, I did not try at all for that low body fat percentage. In fact, I live a sedentary lifestyle centered on video games.

Most students had around 20% body fat, and that included the athletic ones.

Eat it obese America!

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Is that based on BMI? Coz BMI get's way skewed as soon as there's anything even slightly out of the ordinary about someone's height:weight ratio... tongue

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That means you would have a lot of talent my friend. You should've started like athletics. A lot of the athletes now would be jaleous. So get out of your seat and start sporting bigtime.

And btw 20% is a lot for athletes.

And can i know what machine measured it? Cos normally it's in something you have to go underwater. A kind of bathtub.

Those electric measure things are off a lot. Sometimes to 8%

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Yeah 20% is overweight.. Most athletes are about your %, depending on the sports of course..  We had a guy in our class last year who had 4%.. (but he was a fitness junky tongue ) And it doesn't mean you have talent for athletics if you have low % fat.. Could just be that he's really skinny or something like that.. smile

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Heh Fudgeh. Trust me, it's a big paprt of talent, that kind of fat percentage. Together with VO2Max but that's still trainable, a low fat percentage in the way he is talking about isn't trainable. Because there are a lot of athlethes who train the shit out of them and still have 11% body fat.

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Ok yeah, you're right.. It always helps a lot to not store body fat smile And you should pick up sports simply cuz it's good for you tongue I took it a bit literally.. as in: If you have that kinda talent, you're guaranteed to be a top athlete tongue (which isn't true).. But yeah ur right Edirol, it's a big help if you do smile

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Bullet,

I don't know. Actually, there were very few truly athletic people in the class and I never had the opportunity to check their body fat percentage. I was using athletic liberally to include the capable people.

Edirol,

It wasn't underwater. But to give you an idea of my height and weight, to roughly estimate its offness, I am 5'7 and 128 lbs.

As for being an athlete myself, I could barely bench press half my weight...

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If you can pinch less than an inch of fat your healthy.  If you pinch more than an inch of fat your unhealthy.

So go pinch yourself.

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the machine isn't as accurate as the water displacement

the machine misses the fat between your ears

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As for being an athlete myself, I could barely bench press half my weight...

Nothing to do with it wink Talking about long distance runners and stuff.

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the best way to test how much body fat you have or had tongue is melt your whole body down unfortunately you die so nothing is as accurate as that lol but yes the water displacement one is highly recommend if you can do it, also a good indication is getting some skin fold tests from some professionals to test different sites on your body for body fat and doing some calculations and getting your somatotype aka ectomorph endomorph and mesomorph but yeah bmi is shit due to it being basically a measure against the population some of the muscliest men are considered obese due to their height so its way skewed that way smile

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Metrex, BMI told me I was closer to being overweight than my non-sporty, smoking housemate. It sucksssss tongue

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I once ate a whole hippo.
Your body fat percentage is now made invalid!

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yeah Bullet BMI isnt really meant for personal indications but more so measuring against the population lol there are also these machines where you put your hands on and they send an electrical current through your body seeing the resistance of fat to electricity also indicating % fat on your body..

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Rather funny how you humiliate yourself.

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me?

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Eat it obese America!

lol we will eat it while you continue to live in 3rd world nation where u get rations each month

GO AMERICA KEEP THE GREED AND OVER ABUNDANCE UP SO I CAN MOCK ALL THE JEALOUS LOSER NATIONS OF THE WORLD.

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