Chris2016 Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 I'm currently hovering around 20-22% body fat. I would like to get to 15%. Has anybody gone from 20 to 15%? How long did it take? What was your exercises? I run primarily (half marathons; 1 marathon a year). I'm making sure to mix in strength training now. I'm thinking of doing Spartan or triathlons, because I think they would help me stay motivated to include strength training. What was your diet like? Were you pretty stringent?
OneLov Posted August 24, 2016 Posted August 24, 2016 I'm currently hovering around 20-22% body fat. I would like to get to 15%. Has anybody gone from 20 to 15%? How long did it take? What was your exercises? I run primarily (half marathons; 1 marathon a year). I'm making sure to mix in strength training now. I'm thinking of doing Spartan or triathlons, because I think they would help me stay motivated to include strength training. What was your diet like? Were you pretty stringent? I'm about 10%. Shred your core. Seriously destroy it. It's the most important aspect of being strong and looking it. It's all about diet at this point. Low fat/low carb/high protein. Don't eat out; I don't care how healthy you think it is. Eat breakfast and smaller meals through out the day. Carbs in the morning, none in the evening. Have at least one cheat day a week. Hard to say how long. It really depends. You could do it in a week if you starved yourself. A healthy approach would be losing .5 to 1% a week. It all depends on your baseline fitness.
PogoStick Posted September 9, 2016 Posted September 9, 2016 The real answer depends on your total weight. 20% of 200 lbs means you have 40 pounds of fat, compared with 20% of 100, you have only 20lbs. Obviously scenario one you have twice as much to lose.
oldshirt Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 I'm afraid it's not as linear as saying, "eat this and don't do that and you'll lose "X"% of bodyfat per week. Everyone's body and metabolism is different and everyone has a certain bodyfat percentage where their body wants to be at. Someone may cut out their daily Snickers bar and drop from 25% to 18% in a matter of weeks and not even really try that hard. But for them to go from 18% to 15% or lower they may be spending hours in the gym and living on carrot sticks and rice cakes.
introverted1 Posted September 13, 2016 Posted September 13, 2016 Are you male or female? 15% for a guy is not all that hard to achieve. It is far leaner for a woman to be at 15%.
Foreverever421 Posted September 17, 2016 Posted September 17, 2016 Took me 3 months to drop from 18% to 11%. Hard to maintain it though. At least for me.
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