LKL wrote:
Kurgan wrote:
If the female beauty standards were as demanding as male beatury standards (i.e. any Hollywood woman had to workout as hard as Hugh Jackman does), pretty much any woman in any lightly dressed role would look like a bikini fitness woman (the 21. century one, that is, not the 1990's one). If standards were "fair", Spartacus would be filled with actors with mediocre amounts of lean mass and 12-14% body fat.
*snort* And if male body standards were as strict as female ones, Hugh Jackman would have to starve himself until he was having heart palpitations due to malnutrition.
No, not really. A man's ideal body fat range is 15-22%; a woman's is 22-30%. At roughly 20%, Katy Perry or most other female present day celebrities aren't that skinny. A woman with 20% bodyfat, is no more absurd than a man with a 12% bodyfat level. In any case, it takes a lot more for a man to reach 8% bodyfat than it does for a woman to reach 20% bodyfat, especially given that a man also has to retain a lot of muscle mass.
Absolutely every man with six pack abs has a fat percentage below the ideal levels. Abs usually become visible at anywhere between 6 and 10% bf (with 8 being the mean), but in rare cases, if the bf is very evenly distributed, he may have visible abs even at 11%. Likewise, in some extreme cases, if he has stubborn fat, the lower abs may still not be visible at 4-5% bodyfat.
An average American woman has 32% bodyfat; if she loses 10 lbs of fat + the water retention, she's no more fat than most female singers or actresses.
29 May 2013, 2:08 am
