I have never had a body fat test done on me so I have no Idea what my body fat percentage is. I do not necessarily look fat but I would look a lot better if I cut up. bodybuilding applys the term cutting or cutting up, which means to lose body fat while retaining as much muscle as possible. Your muscles will look more defined when you have a low body fat percentage.
If you want a six pack most people will tell you to do stomach crunches(sit ups). Stomach crunches will strengthen your abdominals and make them bigger, however you wont see your six pack if you have a thick layer of fat hiding them. So all you don’t really have to train your abs to achieve a six pack. All you have to do is shed enough body fat to see them.
Im going to look into buying some sort of body fat measure/calculator to aid in my weight loss. I would be much obliged if any experienced readers would like to guess my body fat percentage from my picture.
February 29th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
just to update on this topic I calculated my body fat Percentage
May 14th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Hello my friends
November 12th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Guessing about 13-15% body fat! Which is not bad if buildling naturally. I work abdominals 3x a week and still arent seeing the results i want. I believe its because my diet is not tuned to perfection and i lack on my cardio. So if you do want those washboard abs, its a matter of diet diet diet and cardio to speed up the fat burning process.
You are what eat!
March 18th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Nice post, perfect for me as I was only talking to my wife about this very thing last night, we were looking to start an abs training regime, I’ve subscribed to your feed.