Oscar
Level 7 Valued Member
This thread triggered a question I´ve been meaning to ask for a while. Everyone talks about body fat percentage, but what about muscle mass percentage?
It appears that for most sports and activities, a bodyfat of about 10% is ideal. This is for typical activities, excluding both extremes of the continuum: marathoners and powerlifters (and the such). also, it appears that elite athletes of typical sports all carry more or less the mentioned body fat of about 10%, and also similar quantities of muscle. Think soccer, basketball, tennis, volleyball, etc. None of them looks like Ed Coan, and neither like a marathoner. So, as a general rule, how much muscle are these guy carrying? What´s their muscle mass %? The following examples come to mind: Lebron James, Cristiano Ronaldo, Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic, etc. Aside from the height, these guys seem to have similar body fat and muscle mass percentages.
It appears that for most sports and activities, a bodyfat of about 10% is ideal. This is for typical activities, excluding both extremes of the continuum: marathoners and powerlifters (and the such). also, it appears that elite athletes of typical sports all carry more or less the mentioned body fat of about 10%, and also similar quantities of muscle. Think soccer, basketball, tennis, volleyball, etc. None of them looks like Ed Coan, and neither like a marathoner. So, as a general rule, how much muscle are these guy carrying? What´s their muscle mass %? The following examples come to mind: Lebron James, Cristiano Ronaldo, Usain Bolt, Novak Djokovic, etc. Aside from the height, these guys seem to have similar body fat and muscle mass percentages.