PLEASE HELP! How hard is it to drop 1% Body Fat?? THANKS!?!
Question: I have 2 questions. Here's the first: How hard was it for you to drop about 1% of fat? (how long with what kind of work out)
First of all, I'm a guy, 23. I use the device that you hold onto and it sends a current through your body to measure your fat %.
5 years ago - I was at a very high 25% body fat
2 years ago - I was at 20% from jogging/push ups/crunches every night
Now I'm at 15% which is better, but I really want to get a 6 pack, or at least close to it.
Here's the second: Is it gonna take another 2 years to get down to 10%? (at my current rate of exercise)
My daily work out (30 minutes)
- I'm 5'11, 185
- I jog 2 miles, 8 min pace
- 60 push ups, 60 crunches
- 5 pull ups
- some bench press, machines at the gym in my apartment (it sucks)
- I eat fairly healthy
Answers: I have 2 questions. Here's the first: How hard was it for you to drop about 1% of fat? (how long with what kind of work out)
First of all, I'm a guy, 23. I use the device that you hold onto and it sends a current through your body to measure your fat %.
5 years ago - I was at a very high 25% body fat
2 years ago - I was at 20% from jogging/push ups/crunches every night
Now I'm at 15% which is better, but I really want to get a 6 pack, or at least close to it.
Here's the second: Is it gonna take another 2 years to get down to 10%? (at my current rate of exercise)
My daily work out (30 minutes)
- I'm 5'11, 185
- I jog 2 miles, 8 min pace
- 60 push ups, 60 crunches
- 5 pull ups
- some bench press, machines at the gym in my apartment (it sucks)
- I eat fairly healthy
I hate to break it to you, but I've been down to 6.5% bodyfat and still no 6-pack abs. It depends a lot on genetics, so I hear. I use the same kind of electronic device you use.
I think the problem you're having is that you're (probably) eating to build muscle, while trying to burn fat. Unfortunately, I don't think you can do both at once. This past summer, I cut back on my strength training and drastically upped my cardio. I bicycled 15 miles about 4-5x a week. I also carefully monitored my calorie intake/expenditure (www.calorie-count.com), with a net expense of 250-500 calories more per day than I took in. During that time period I didn't build any muscle, nor did I lose any. However, I dropped my body fat by about 5%. Once I got to where I wanted to be, I cut back on the cardio and upped the strength training again. Now my body fat is slowly creeping up again (along with muscle), so when it hits 10% I'll go back to the extra cardio until I get it back down. Good luck.