He already did, it wasn’t 10%, and he’s already been told that physique would be totally maintainable.
I still love you though
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Do you think that is about 12 percent? IMO, that is a great leanness to be at because it is easier to be big too. I wouldn’t want to be as small as that picture though.
Idk man. It’s hard to say, we are all guessing anyways lol if I had to guess I’d say 12-13-14%. Dude looks pretty soft other than some good lighting and posing on the abs. I could be way off, plus we can’t see the rest of him. The only thing I personally feel comfortable with 100% guessing is he’s not 10% lol
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If you look up that picture it is used in a lot of magazines/articles, I’m guessing that increases the possibility that this is taken with a pump and killer flattering light
Dude is 100% standing directly under a spotlight. I’d ballpark it at 15%, but that’s as ridiculous a guess as any other. We really don’t have very good objective measures of bodyfat percentage.
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Can someone tag “you got an estimate for me” guy. He would be so proud of all of us.
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Dude got banned for trolling.
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hehe I’ll throw a few thoughts:
1- most people don’t understand what 10% bf actually is or looks like. We all know someone who THINKS they’re “10% year round”, but they’re usually not.
2- As someone who has competed many times at pretty competitive levels (and done fairly well IMHO), I can tell you that being on top of every aspect of your nutrition, training and cardio isn’t always fun, and as much as I loved competing, I was much more content ballparking my variables, and staying ~20 lbs above my stage weight.
3- I always felt that the body doesn’t WANT to be especially lean. You’re cold, you don’t have extra protection for your joints, it goes against basic survival instincts. SO you’re either trying to GAIN, or trying to LOSE (I"m over-simplifying to a ridiculous amount here!), and trying to maintain at a level your body doesn’t want to,… well, it’s a risky in terms of muscle retention endeavor IMO.
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This is what I did during my competition years. It took about 12 weeks to prep for a show and 20 lbs was an attainable level without crashing and losing muscle.
All that said, IMO, the actual body fat % is just a number. The mirror tells the only story that is significant. Empirically, I used the pinch test. I know it’s not accurate, but it is repeatable. After numerous years I needed only follow the upper back pinch thickness. That is where the last fat to lose was for me. But the mirror has the final say.
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This guy is 7% - all year round!
I particularly like the way they’ve had to point out where his muscles are with lines.
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Sure, that helps some but it’s really quite incomplete. For example, what is that brown stuff on his head? Without a label, I can’t tell if it’s some sort of fungus, a weird muscle imbalance, or chocolate protein powder.
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How can you even tell where his head is? It’s not labeled in the pic.
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IMO, that looks a bit higher than 7%. I don’t understand the desire to be lean without much muscle like the guy in the picture.
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That leanness will be there all year with the amount of activity he has, which most can’t get. He’s likely somewhere around 10 percent.
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I can’t tell sarcasm or not, but you don’t understand why he’d want to train to “be lean without much muscle” when he is paid $37 million dollars a year to play soccer? He doesn’t train for looks, he trains and carries the the body fat and muscle balance that allows him to play his sport at the highest level possible. Doing extra upper body work to add muscle for appearance would not be a smart move for him.
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I am talking about why do many seem to have that as the goal look. Not that guy specifically.
I just see so often that guys want to be shredded. They want abs. But they are small.
To each their own, but I would rather be a lot bigger with slightly more body fat.
CR7’s physique blows 99% of this forum out the stratosphere
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Likely because, as a wise man told, “no one gives a shit about a muscle.” And I don’t blame them for not. It’s actually out of the norm to care that much about them and with the time invested to get jacked, there’s little payoff for it for most.
@The_Mighty_Stu care to chime in? Lol.
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