#BODY FAT PERCENTAGES ON MEN MANUALS#

Thanks for reading and as always, be sure to share this article with someone who you think might find it to be of interest! Body Fat Percentage Comparison: What Is A Healthy Body Fat Percentage? Healthy body fat percentages vary based on age, gender and activity levels but you don’t have to be ultra lean to be healthy. In this article we are going to take a look at what men and women tend to look like at different body fat percentages and the various methods of measuring body fat- and their limitations. That said, it is a good idea to have a ballpark idea of what your body fat percentage is for health reasons more than anything else, unless you are an athlete involved in distance events where weight to power ratios are all important, and you need to know just how far down you can go body fat wise without affecting your performance. At the end of the day, a change in numbers means nothing if your client still has layers of fat obscuring their midsection and no one walks around on the beach with their body fat percentage numbers printed out on their swimsuit! (See my article diet vs training- what matters most for body transformation.) There are also some very considerable limitations to field methods of body fat testing that make it somewhat impractical and so I have never used it in my personal training practice. In my practice as a personal trainer in New York City and now in my role an online personal trainer my philosophy remains the same.

#BODY FAT PERCENTAGES ON MEN MANUALS#

While the training manuals might have said that it was important to measure your client’s body fat percentage as an indicator of their progress, my coaches all said that if a client couldn’t look in the mirror and see visible differences in their body or how their clothes fit then I wasn’t doing my job. Ask just about anyone that is seriously into their training what their body fat percentage is, and quite often they can tell you exactly what it is to the nearest decimal point! When I started my training as an apprentice trainer over 30 years ago back in the islands, my coaches frowned upon the use of skinfold calipers and body fat testing in general. Nowadays the golden standard by which many health and fitness enthusiasts use to gauge their level of fitness is their body fat percentage. Body Fat Percentage Comparisons For Men & Women

Body fat percentages on men