Wayne, as a guy who tested many runners, swimmers and gymnasts, including a number of olympians, I can say that you are closest to stating the truth on this thread. I agree with reality. All those claiming to be 3% and chicks under 12% are full of shite.
While working in the lab. I had my own tested with calipers, impedence and hydrostatic many times. when running well over 100 miles a week and at 5'9 and 148 I never got below 10%.
Ray,
Depending on test mode and other factors, I usually test between 15 and 22%. I trust some of these guys more than others. Miles & miles, by having done the Trials 'thon may be as low as he says, but I think many others are deluding themselves (either through poor test procedure or just making it up). On the other hand, it doesn't matter much.
Ray wrote:
While working in the lab. I had my own tested with calipers, impedence and hydrostatic many times. when running well over 100 miles a week and at 5'9 and 148 I never got below 10%.
5'9 and 148. You are big for 5'9". That is why you are 10% body fat. Just becaues you run 100 miles a week does not mean you will be lean. You can burn muscle which will, if you dont burn fat also, RAISE your % body fat. It is by no means hard to get fat even while running 100 miles a week. Lets suppose you are burning 1500 calories over what your sedentary self would. If you are eating the acclaimed healthy 5 meals a day then throw in an extra bagel at those and you have your calories made up. I am 5'8 and about 126, and not a stereotypical distance runner (benched 190 before at the same weight). You telling me that 10%, or even 5% of my mass is comming from fat? Get a new job.
Ray, how can you be so sure? I'm not trying to be snotty either, I'm merely wondering if you have more support than your own personal experience.
The reason I wonder is because (as a female) I was told that I had 10% BF with calipers and 9% hydrostatic. I didn't look like skeletor either, heck, I wasn't even under 110 lbs.
5'6' 140lbs on a good day. 8% body fat. Hydrostatic weighing test done, 129lbs fat free mass. 100-120 miles a week when logging heavy miles.
Alan
Eastern chick and Carolyne. I hope that both of you are lying about your weights. 5'4'' and 85 lbs. and 5'8'' and 96 lbs. are extremely unhealthy weights. Being lean might help you run a little faster, but being too skinny and not providing yourself with proper nutrition is going to eventually slow you down.
At 5'7'' and 125-130 lbs. I was a DI All-American in Cross Country, and I ran some pretty fast times.
I was heavily muscled for a distance runner. Deek probably had less muscle mass. In fact, I went through college as a long sprinter.
People that saw me at 148 would not think I had 10% body fat. In fact, I'm proably thin for the average male now and I weigh in at 178.
I saw many mistakes while working in the lab. When using the calipers, we did everything on calculator. No tables, all equations.
Did a number of the olympic swimmers who had a surprising ly high % of fat, but it probably doesn't hurt them because of lower density. those women averaged 15%.
Male, 6'1" tall, 153 pounds, and 3% bodyfat both by calipers and impedence. I have been injured and was running around 80 miles a week, but only doing about 40 to 50 right now.
Luv them
Wayne-
I would have helped you out in a fight anytime you needed it.
I heard that.
5' 7"
158
16%
Been injured off and on for 3 years, it bites.
reality,
you too are a f***in' tool. the rest of you are a little too skinny. let's all have a burger tonight! let's be fat americans!!! chow down!!
stat twins. im 6'3 120 lbs and my abs have veins. 100 mpw