OCUK Body Builders: Post your Pics!

Mark A · 20 Apr 2007 at 23:10

I think I'll post a pic of me in a few months if i manage to gain some weight. I look like a stick insect compared to you lot :eek:

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How do you find out your body fat %age?. I bet mine will be very low as i have never been able to put fat on, not that id want to.

Morba · 20 Apr 2007 at 23:13

Ste99 said:
Been able to do seated calf raises on the smith machine this week, 10 reps at 135kg was my best. Standing calf raises around 180-200kg now.

that has to be one of the most pointless pics in this thread tbh

get standing up and flex it properly

dafloppyone · 20 Apr 2007 at 23:14

my scale is 10% higher than the gym one lol.
you get some electric sticker things stuck to your arm foot and chest, they enter your height and weight details ..it sends a current round your body and boom you got your body fat %

Morba · 20 Apr 2007 at 23:14

Mark A said:
I think I'll post a pic of me in a few months if i manage to gain some weight. I look like a stick insect compared to you lot .

How do you find out your body fat %age?. I bet mine will be very low as i have never been able to put fat on, not that id want to.

2 easiest ways:

- goto a gym / docs and ask for a bodyfat check, they will do it with calipers.
- find one of those weight and bodyfat machines like they have in boots

the first one will be a lot more reliable.

Ste99 · 20 Apr 2007 at 23:15

The most accurate method is to get a professional to measure your bodyfat using calipers, but this isn't a convenient option. There are scales and little hand held things that can estimate your body fat percentage as well.

Baker · 26 Apr 2007 at 00:56

i have 2% bodyfat

Chong Warrior · 26 Apr 2007 at 01:15

Baker said:
i have 2% bodyfat

No you don't, you'd be dead.

Or were you....

a) Trying to be funny

b) Trolling

red11 · 26 Apr 2007 at 01:28

Baker said:
i have 2% bodyfat

Just curious, how did you measure that?

Baker · 26 Apr 2007 at 01:47

Linoge said:
Just curious, how did you measure that?

Up to 60 percent of the human body is water, the brain is composed of 70 percent water, and the lungs are nearly 90 percent water and about 83 percent of our blood is water.

So add them all together, multiply by body weight in hundred weights, carry the two and get the square route, 2%.

Skull · 26 Apr 2007 at 10:16

Wow you must be rippter than brad pitt in fight clubs!

semi-pro waster · 26 Apr 2007 at 10:46

Ste99 said:
The most accurate method is to get a professional to measure your bodyfat using calipers, but this isn't a convenient option. There are scales and little hand held things that can estimate your body fat percentage as well.

Just to be pedantic, it isn't, there are more accurate measures but they are even more difficult to access. I'd always thought the Hydrostatic method was most accurate (although not available to most) but apparantly something called Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorbtiometry is even more accurate - Wikipedia article.

Baker said:
Up to 60 percent of the human body is water, the brain is composed of 70 percent water, and the lungs are nearly 90 percent water and about 83 percent of our blood is water.

So add them all together, multiply by body weight in hundred weights, carry the two and get the square route, 2%.

I reckon you must be taking the Michael but if not there is absolutely no chance you would be that low, some pro-bodybuilders can get down to ~3-4% for the day of a competition but it leaves them weak and is done to emphasise the definition - at that sort of level you can see the striations in your cheeks.

tomanders91 · 26 Apr 2007 at 17:38

hi guys, just wondering, i know how you build up upper body strenghth with weights and press ups/chin ups and stuff, But what are the best ways for your back and legs?

Bakedgoods · 26 Apr 2007 at 17:48

tomanders91 said:
hi guys, just wondering, i know how you build up upper body strenghth with weights and press ups/chin ups and stuff, But what are the best ways for your back and legs?

Deadlifts
Stiff-legged deadlift
Squats

Wide arm chin ups are a really good lat (back) building exercise :]

Baker · 26 Apr 2007 at 17:50

Anything similar to press-ups/sit-ups for back + legs? Can't really take equipment with me everywhere atm.

alexakasloth · 26 Apr 2007 at 18:09

Dips, you can do these between a chair and bed.

Chong Warrior · 26 Apr 2007 at 18:35

Baker said:
Anything similar to press-ups/sit-ups for back + legs? Can't really take equipment with me everywhere atm.

Have a look at this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17670202&highlight=bodyweight+exercises

Efaws · 26 Apr 2007 at 19:46

Baker said:
i have 2% bodyfat

Is that before or after you ate 6,000 calories of morrisons salad bar pasta in one sitting?

semi-pro waster · 26 Apr 2007 at 23:44

Efaws said:
Is that before or after you ate 6,000 calories of morrisons salad bar pasta in one sitting?

That was Bakez I think.

Baker - legs exercise-wise, Chong Warrior has unsurprisingly given good advice since he obviously knows a hell of a lot for bodyweight exercise. If you can get near a seated or standing leg press that is probably also good for you.

Morba · 27 Apr 2007 at 00:14

semi-pro waster said:
That was Bakez I think.

same person

Baker · 27 Apr 2007 at 00:20

Morba said:
same person

no we aren't, if you care so much to post about it all the time then feel free to ask a mod to check the IP difference. :rolleyes:

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