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- From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas)
- Subject: Re: Bodyfat Reduction (GO FOR IT !)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.084239.4779@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213 _USA_
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:42:39 EST
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- In article <CHARRISO.92Dec21105617@gssec.bt.uk.co>, charriso@gssec.bt.uk.co writes:
- |> In article <1gqnubINN2c1@male.EBay.Sun.COM> sproule@gethsemane.EBay.Sun.COM (Dan Sproule) writes:
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- |> From: sproule@gethsemane.EBay.Sun.COM (Dan Sproule)
- |> Newsgroups: misc.fitness
- |> Date: 17 Dec 92 20:28:59 GMT
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- |> > * I've been training for a number of years now, and I'm very happy with my size
- |> > * and shape. However, my body-fat has always remained between 11-14%. How do I
- |> > * go about bringing it down into single figures (4-7%) ? Lots of aerobics ? What
- |> > * about my diet ? Do I need any supplements ? Do I lay off the weights ? What
- |> > * sort of time-scales am I looking at ? etc. etc.
- |> >
- |> > A question to answer your question:
- |> >
- |> > If you are very happy with your size and shape,
- |> > why do you care about reducing your body fat from
- |> > a healthy 11-14% down to a possibly unhealthy 4-7%?
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- |>
- |> My response to anyone who wants to drop down to 4-7% bodyfat is: GO
- |> FOR IT !!! Think about it. If you were to grab a hand full of the fat
- |> around your waste, ... what is that fat right there doing for you? It's
- |> not cushioning any muscle tissue nor is it providing cushion protection
- |> for the joints in your body from that location. It simply sits there and
- |> does absolutely nothing for you. The mere fact that your body can have
- |> enough excess fat to be able to grab denotes that you already have all
- |> of the necesary fatty material in between the muscles and organs. The ex-
- |> cess is excess.
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- Many women (myself included) fail to menstruate when our body
- fat percentage dips too low. This happened for me, when I
- measured 6-7%. I'm at my healthiest when I am ~15%.
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