Body fat percentage

You could still lose a few.

And then he said, my son is 0% body fat.

damn his son has zero yes he shouldn't say it as a doctor it's a lie nothing here zero percent body fat and he's lying he's a he's a lying doctor even if he's really like 13 maybe what is your

bmi my bmi i don't know bmi is not that important though but body fat is more interesting i feel like a lot of people say they're like three three percent i've heard a lot of people say but that's like almost dying yeah not healthy Pretty much no one is 3%.

Definitely 0% is impossible.

His son is 0%.

And boy, they both looked just in incredible shape.

And I think Tom Bergeron even mentioned something here at the very beginning when he talks about looking for the body fat.

But let's listen to what the judges had to say for Kelly and Derek's top 10 jazz back in season 16.

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So I think first, what I just wanted to ask you is what do you define as body recomp? When somebody asks you that, what does that mean? What is that to you?

Yeah, so simultaneous loss of fat mass and gain of lean tissue or muscle mass, right? That is what it is if I'm putting my objective hat on and then just acknowledging that you can't actually know that's happened without, you know, like lab-based stuff like DEXA or a really good anthro.

So that's...

I think a lot of the times in practice, it's more based upon visuals and scale weight and not being in an intentional, you know, surplus and people conflate it with maintenance.

So body fat's like 80 to 90% fat, you know? So that's why we have like the 3,500, you know, KCAL quote unquote rule that approximately tracks to telling you how much fat you lost and therefore the deficit.

And it is a lot less than that for lean mass, five to six times different.

So if we want to speak in kilograms, which is 2.2 pounds just for the Americans listening, we're talking over 9,000 calories in a kilogram of fat mass, you know, as measured by DEXA.

And then we're talking like under, you know, 2000 calories for a kilogram of lean mass.

And maintenance is great, but there's only so much that can be done at maintenance.

The reality is a lot of people want to see their muscles grow and their body fat decrease, and they expect it to happen all at the same time.

And recomposition can and does happen, but it happens slowly and a lot of times not nearly at the rate that we want it to.

And so I think a lot of people have this disillusion of what they can accomplish without having to go into a surplus.

We have to have an anabolic stimulus.

We have to have enough food in order to actually produce growth.

And so, yes, that will come alongside body fat as well.

Sorry, that's the case.

It's coming right up.

The body set weight acts like a sort of thermostat for body fat percentage.

Let's think about the concept of how a thermostat works.

What you do is you set the thermostat and for room temperature, for example.

That is, when things get too hot on your body, you're gonna cool it down and you do that to sweat.

When it gets too cold, you're gonna shiver and bring the temperature up.

It turns out that homeostasis also applies to the concept of body fat.

And the reason is that the body fat percentage is a hugely important factor in survival for wild animals.

All right, here's something super controversial.

Tracking your food, your body fat percentage, your measurements.

For many of you, it might be ruining your progress.

Almost all health correlations are connected to performance.

You know, you're going to live longer.

That's what they'll say, right? And the data shows it clearly.

But the correlation has less to do with muscle and body fat and how you look.

Far stronger correlation to performance.

Welcome back to another video gents and in this one i'm going to be discussing exactly what your body looks like every single time your body fat changes going through the kind of key steps and journey that lots of guys go through all the way starting from the top down to the lean level of body fat that a lot of guys want to achieve most men don't really have any idea what body fat that they actually are so i want to hopefully try and give you guys a bit of an understanding of maybe where you're at at the moment and what to expect as you go from body fat or average body fat to low body fat to being in the best shape to maybe where you actually can sit and maintain as well as that's a really important thing to actually understand as well so guys we're going to start right from the top now this isn't going to be for all of you but there might be some of you watching this right now and you genuinely know that you are very overweight so 40 body fat is going to be kind of the starting position here that i want to try and cover Now, this is where you are going to be carrying a significant amount of fat on your face, your chest, your stomach, your love handles.

This is the morbidly obese range.

You are going to look very fat.

Your life is really gonna suck to a certain extent, guys.

You've got zero muscle definition.

energy is really low your confidence really and i'm not trying to paint a really morbid picture here i'm just being completely honest with really where you're at at this level of body fat and it's honestly a place where like health risks are going to become very very real if you're not already diabetic you're going to be at some point um you're going to have health disease liver oh there's all sorts of stuff really guys that i could cover in this position but i think as adults we know that 40 body fat is not a place that we should be wanting to be certainly not a place that we should want to be staying for a very long time So then we're going to move all the way down to 30% body fat, which I think for a lot of men is realistic for them to do by themselves because you don't really need to do a huge amount other than cut out a lot of the crap.

Starting in like an adult, maybe just try and move your body a little bit more.

It's not particularly hard.