Originally Posted by a-unit
Well said.Thunders is a place of brotherhood and acceptance.
If on the otherhand you had claimed 4% I would have called.
6% is extremely low, and difficult to maintain.
I went for a period of deep muscular definition and vascularity, not entirely by plan, but as my reaction to relentless stress for nearly three years during the divorce from the mother of my children.
Training as hard as I could with weights, bike riding and soccer helped me through an impossible time.
6’ 2” 195 pounds and ripped. I look at pictures of myself then and wonder how it could have been real.
I don’t think I had a fatpad then, just a bladder!
Sorry to hear about your stress during that time! At least it got you ripped though..
To put the matter to rest, I remeasured my “fatpad” and it is 1 cm deep, or .4 inches deep pressed hard to the bone. So I have a .4 inch fatpad and will change my stats accordingly. It seems I wasn’t pressing hard enough the first time.
As for the 6% bodyfat, that measurement was obtained using a bodyfat caliper, after taking my reading (4mm) along the waisteline and following directions, it said I was 6%. I am naturally very lean, (5’8.5 and 131 pounds) and it’s virtually impossible for me to gain weight. In addition, I work out and lead a decently active life. As for my “true” body fat, I haven’t taken a water immersion body fat test, so I can only rely on less accurate measurements.
Anyway, my impression of thunders has always been that it’s a place of good faith, so I’ll have good faith that no one was assuming I would conciously lie about my “fatpad” or bodyfat or penis length for whatever reason. So let’s all get to the common mission of increasing the size of our units :)