Just started going to the gym, measured bodyfat percentage of 29%; been going to the gym for a month now, three times a week. My questions for you folks are:
1. How long does it approx. take to reach a body fat percentage of approx. 15%?
2. Will there be loose skin?
>>34879412
1. Depends on how committed you are to exercise and diet. Can take as little as 6 months, as large as many years.
2. Depends on how fast you lost the weight (desu senpai I dunno, this may be a meme).
>>34879412
If you will eat clean, and calorie intake<calories burned, about 6-8 months.
Nope, there will be no loose skin
keep working skinnyfat
>>34879412
bump
READ THE FUCKING STICKY
How effectively skin tightens up is likely genetic senpai
How long depends more on absolute fat mass, rather than relative, because generally you lose from 1 to 2 pounds a week. Percentage is only barely relevant: it's just that it's slightly easier to diet harder and lose weight faster when you're higher body fat than lower.
So working through an example: If you're 190lbs and 29% body fat now, you have around 135lbs lean mass (average to to high-ish). So at 15% body fat you'd weigh around 160lbs. That's 30 pounds of fat you'd need to lose. At a week a piece, that'd be around 7 months, though at 29% body fat, you should be able to lose the first few pounds a bit faster than that, so call it 6 months.
The formula for desired weight is
lean mass / decimal lean mass proportion = total mass
Lean mass proportion is of course
1-decimal body fat proportion
So .85 for 15% body fat. So to find desired final weight, find your lean mass, then do
(lean mass)/.85
This of course assumes you don't add lean mass as you go, which will increase your final weight. As a beginner, there's a chance you'll add as much as 10lbs lean mass during your first six months (about 11.7lbs more final weight). Though it'll probably be a little less.
>>34879412
Holy king of skinny fats
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>>34879412
sup denim dan
solid
>>34879412
Holy shit
Are you the skinny fat Mexican from fa years ago
You used to always wear those jeans