There is no way I am 13.4% body fat

**noexcuses88** · 03-31-2007, 05:43 PM

After trying to loose weight for 3 months, I successfully lost about 30 pounds. I mustered up all the courage to take a body fat test. I was hoping that I would be in the mid twenties but after the "trained expert" at my local gym took my body fat with a caliber, he said I was 13.4%. With the bioelectric one he got 17.8% I have seen pictures of people with that body fat and I hardly look like them. What do u guys think? It took a lot for me to post these pictures so please don't completely bash me.
Thanks

**T3/T4 GSR** · 03-31-2007, 07:03 PM

yea 17.8 sounds a bit more like it. However keep up what you're doing cause under that 17% BF appears to be a good amount of lean mass.

**EcToMoRpHiAn** · 03-31-2007, 09:30 PM

You look almost exactly like my roomate who just got calipered at 18%, In fact I had to do a double take to make sure it wasn't him.

**audis4** · 03-31-2007, 10:21 PM

^^look more like your in the 20's

**hardgainer12** · 03-31-2007, 11:29 PM

i got measured at 7% and im at probably 13-14. some people just measure wrong i guess

**noexcuses88** · 04-01-2007, 08:59 AM

yeah, I was more disappointed that my body fat was 13.7 b/c I was looking for a accurate measurement. I would take that measurement any day but I wanted a accurate one so that I would be able to work from there. What do u guys think my bf it at?

**noexcuses88** · 04-01-2007, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by EcToMoRpHiAn

You look almost exactly like my roomate who just got calipered at 18%, In fact I had to do a double take to make sure it wasn't him.

Does he actually look like he is 18% or was that a mess up?

**audis4** · 04-01-2007, 09:44 AM

bro your pretty thick, you'll look good once you cut up. good luck to you bro! Go to a gym and have them use calipers (mm I think?)

**noexcuses88** · 04-01-2007, 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by audis4

bro your pretty thick, you'll look good once you cut up. good luck to you bro! Go to a gym and have them use calipers (mm I think?)

Yeah man, I got one of the trainers to use the mm skinfold calibers on me and thats what I got. i am going to have wait till I go home for the summer to get a accurate messurement

**AandF6969** · 04-01-2007, 12:04 PM

Calipers and bioelectric impedance machines are both notorious for being inaccurate. Underwater wei***ng is the most accurate, and large amounts of muscle mass can throw that off as well. Just go by the mirror.

**noexcuses88** · 04-01-2007, 12:33 PM

Yeah.... me and the mirror haven't been friends for a while.

**Jakspro** · 04-01-2007, 12:45 PM

How tall are ya and what weight are you sitting at right now? I would venture a guess to say that your a bit higher than 18, but low 20's. Good luck with cutting, you'll be there before you know it.

**noexcuses88** · 04-01-2007, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Jakspro

How tall are ya and what weight are you sitting at right now? I would venture a guess to say that your a bit higher than 18, but low 20's. Good luck with cutting, you'll be there before you know it.

I am 6'3" at 238

**briancb1** · 04-01-2007, 05:56 PM

yea, they can be off. I was measured at 8.5% one day and 11.5% the next, different people have different readings. Honestly just keep up the good work.

**Ntpadude** · 04-01-2007, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by Jakspro

How tall are ya and what weight are you sitting at right now? I would venture a guess to say that your a bit higher than 18, but low 20's. Good luck with cutting, you'll be there before you know it.

No way on the 13.4%, I believe the 17.5 or whatever more. I know, I started at 22% and when I was 13%, I had much more definition and "obliques" then you, you look more like I did when I was about 19% BF. I am currently around 9% and just way more cut and chisled, see veins, no cushiness, see muscle threads and fibers on unflexed muscle. I appreciate you lost a bunch of weight but are you trying to say you are less then 13.4% when you arent even close yet?

**noexcuses88** · 04-01-2007, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by Ntpadude

No way on the 13.4%, I believe the 17.5 or whatever more. I know, I started at 22% and when I was 13%, I had much more definition and "obliques" then you, you look more like I did when I was about 19% BF. I am currently around 9% and just way more cut and chisled, see veins, no cushiness, see muscle threads and fibers on unflexed muscle. I appreciate you lost a bunch of weight but are you trying to say you are less then 13.4% when you arent even close yet?

I appreciate you trying to come in here and "help" me but, if you had read any of the info above, u would have been completely clear that I said that I thought I was at the low 20's high teens. I think you came in here looking for a fight... So sorry I am not going to give u one.

**noexcuses88** · 04-01-2007, 09:59 PM

You know... That is EXACTLY the stuff that makes people not want to post their pictures online. I dont think you read a single word I posted. Read before you post

**Beefkake31** · 04-01-2007, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by noexcuses88

You know... That is EXACTLY the stuff that makes people not want to post their pictures online. I dont think you read a single word I posted. Read before you post

Don't worry about that man some people just don't take the time to read the posts especially the first one

. Anyway, take this as helpful criticism, I got a bodyfat testing yesterday and it was the hydro one where they put you under water so it is very accurate and mine came out to 13.5% and I look a lot more cut than your pictures and im not saying that in a showing off way but just letting you know that you are correct there is no way you are 13% more like 18-19. But hey, I'm trying to get to 5% like some of these other guys I've seen so I don't even consider myself cut at 13% not even close.