Riptide said:I'm 5'8" and once weighed 220 of pure pudge. After six months of seroius calorie cutting, cardio, and lifting I had dropped 60 pounds. Over the next six months after that I lost another 5 or so. They took my body fat via calipers @ the local 24 hour fitness and it was 8%.
And yet I still have no or little definition on my stomach due to this stubborn bit of flab that just refuses to go away even @ 8% BF. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel that I'm pretty much stuck with it for life and unless I get absolutely gigantic abs I don't see how I'm going to "break through" that layer of pudge and get the definition I desire. So I've pretty much given up on it @ this point. I could drop more weight and get emaciated in order to try and lose that last stubborn bit of fat which is in a very annoying place... But I'm not going to do that. So sooner or later I had to accept that this is the way I am, that I ruined myself early on with my bad eating habits, and that is the price I will pay for it.
even with little development of the abdominal muscles a person still shouldn't have much fat in the abdomen region at 8% bf, because 5-6% is shredded with no fat anywhere on the body. I don't believe that body fat reading. not that you are lying, I don't think they did it right.