True Or False

[genarr3]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you can only get to 2% after you're dead. Like decaying in the sun.

There is some truth to this, the illness part. It's really not healthy to be at the extremes of low bodyfat, 7% and under.

 

[UA_Iron]

your pic doesnt look like 2%, it looks closer to 5%. If you were 2% we'd be able to see your lymphatic systems, haha.

anything lower than 5 is too hard to maintain year round regardless of what you think you're at.

Go get tested hydrostatically, post the results, I call BS.

 

[ThisCat]

Gesh! I think I started something here.......

 

[Mythicalbeing]

My wife has got a natural super lean build too...and she was told she wasn't "as healthy as she could be..."
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[DIVISION]

So I had a friend tell me that when your at a lower BF% your body has a harder time fighting off things like colds and other illness. Is this true? if so. why??

Anytime you cut your BF% down so drastic your immune system will have a harder time fending off illness and infection. It's part of the game, son.




DIV

 

[athlete.03]

Anytime you cut your BF% down so drastic your immune system will have a harder time fending off illness and infection. It's part of the game, son.




DIV

Pretty much. The idea at work here is the bottom line of immunology: homeostasis. There's an optimal "set point" for your own personal bodyfat %. Go too far below OR above that and you'll have a suppressed immune response. The latter is usually of much more concern. M'kay...

 

[Catch Wrestler]

I don't mean to be disrespectful or anything,and don't want to cause any flaming,but you look to me from your picture that you've got hardly any muscle on you at all.So I wouldn't wont my BF level to be that low if it meant having that little amount of muscle.Can't anybody else see this or am I the only one who can see it??

 

[mrplunkey]

yes.. 2% and if you knew me or met me you wouldn't be rolling your eyes.
i'm not trying to brag, i wish it were higher myself a little bit, but i've ALWAYS BEEN around 2% my entire life. it's gone up a little bit with gear use, but i've never ever ever been over 5% since my first breath.
are you skeptical, or just jealous ?

No offense, but you'd be dead at 2%. Let's say you weigh 160 lbs (just a guess). Two percent of that is 3.6 lbs -- you probably have at least 2-3 lbs of "fat" distributed in nervous tissue throughout your body.

Get in a water tank... a buddy going wild with calipers on you won't get the job done.

 

[HollywoodX]

yeah most of the last 7-8 years i've been around 2%, and people always told me that that was not healthy, although i rarely got sick, and i always felt good. i actually felt better then than i do now, which is probably closer to 4% but i havent been taking care myself the last few months....

hey bro, there is no ways you were @ 2% for 8 years, lmao.
@ 2% you would be able to see straitions in your penis! thats not good for 8 years....

 

[roidpuple]

how did you get your fat tested??? .. if i was 2% body fat
my face would look like a skeleton.. i would also think you woule be able so see every little vien in your body... it does not make since....
.... so how did you get tested?? ....Skin Fold Caliper ??