What bodyfat % does a girl need to be at to see abs??

caseywhitcher

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• Aug 24, 2002

• #1

Hey all,

My fiancee want's to ask what she will have to get down to, to see her abs, at least a 4pack?

She is currently 5', and 95 lbs. We just had our bodyfat tested and she is right at 20%

Also with the right diet and steady cardio how long do you think it will take her to get to that %?

thanks,

KC

 

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CJWolford

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• Aug 24, 2002

• #2

mine can see abs at 19%

 

dedprez*

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• Aug 24, 2002

• #3

i would say 15-18%

 

mr456

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• Aug 24, 2002

• #4

Men can usually start seeing them at 10% women closer to 15/16%. Depends on the person.

 

midwtchamp

Banana

• Aug 24, 2002

• #5

well my sis does fitness and she is right at 8% and her abs look better than mine when I am in off season....I personally think that anything 12 or over you cant see....my significant other is bout 14% and you cant see her abs....well the top two

 

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CJWolford

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• Aug 24, 2002

• #6

sorry, mine only has a 4 pack, but she works at them quite a bit.

Me on the other hand, i've never seen my abs before

 

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highside

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• Aug 24, 2002

• #7

I could not tell you. There are these two girls at my gym and that is about all they workout. You can see there abs good, but you can also see flab on the sides of there abs (obliques). I dont think there body fat is that low, but then again they do abs all the time.

 

midwtchamp

Banana

• Aug 24, 2002

• #8

A wise person once told me, it doesnt matter how much you work them you will never see them if there is fat covering them...just my 2 cent

 

superman1975

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• Aug 25, 2002

• #9

5 feet tall and 95 lbs @ 20%bf--that doesn't sound right at all---5ft tall and 95 lbs she would be pretty skinny

 

cybersteffan

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• Aug 25, 2002

• #10

It depends on how much she stores on her belly. For a certain bf% one girl could have a fat ass but a flat stomach while another might have a tight ass but a bowl full of jelly on her belly. bf% is an overall fat rate and people store fat differently at different places and when they diet they lose fat more rapidly in one place than another.

So in the end, it's a real difficult question to be exact at. It also depends on how her abs are built. So the answer will be somewhere between 8 and 18 %, which is a very wide range!

 

BStrongBwell*

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• Aug 25, 2002

• #11

95 sounds pretty light, even for 5' tall. She may just be genetically programmed to store more fat in the belly area, meaning that in order to thin that tummy fat out she may need to get sickly skinny.

 

caseywhitcher

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• Aug 25, 2002

• #12

Cyber that makes alot of sense.... sounds right to me, I'll just have to tell her to stay the course and she will see results..

Superman.... I'm no expert but we just had our bodyfat tested at 24 hour fitness.... according to their charts, for a female 20% puts her in the "lean" category, almost "Very Lean" , as a guy I'm 15.5% and i'm not even to "lean" yet, I"m just "fair" women have a much higher bodyfat % that guys do....

Yes, she does look very skinny now. Flat stomach, and looks WAAY skinnier than me.

 

Gear101*

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• Aug 25, 2002

• #13

i've never do it but it seems alot of women like the yokiburn.. spelling... works better for women than men they say

 

kossdeh

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• Aug 25, 2002

• #14

Other than making my testicles tingle when it drips of my abs, that yohimburn stuff didnt do squat for me. I went through a bottle and a half as instructed.
I guess I'm bound to remain a fatass

 

midwtchamp

Banana

• Aug 25, 2002

• #15

All you fatasses quit eating soo damn much!!!!jk

 

GetnBigr

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• Aug 26, 2002

• #16

all my fat is in the ab area!! pisses me off..

working on it though..