Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Abs, body fat, calipers and a mirror.

froshman
froshman
Posts: 441
Joined: 2003/07/12
United States
2004/03/15, 11:34 PM
I just got my accumeasure body fat calipers and measured the fat around my abs as a little over half an inch. I banked in at between 13 and 15 percent body fat and I want to show my abs. I read that in order to do this, you have to have about 8 percent body fat. I'm currently 6'1", 190 lbs. and according to the equation, I would have to go down to between 170 and 179 pounds to have 8 percent. This seems to light for my tastes and seems extreme to g oso low for just half an inch of fat. Can this be right? How can a make sure its just fat Im burning? (I really want to decrease that fat around my abs and not loose mass anywhere else. Although I know you can't spot reduce, I'm thin and the concentration of fat I have is around my abs.)