Was this on a dexa scan? If not it's literally irrelevant

well I think it is, the thingy that sends eletric waves in your body and calculates muscle mass and everything?

otherwise I guess yeah it is irrelevent, I looked up what a dexa scan look like on google and I've never seen that in my life so prob wasn't that, do they only have that in hospitals?

I wish someone cared enough to pay me to get fit

Well they have to be on a very strict diet. One of the problem with the bet is that the BF % u can go down to is very dependant on your genes.

There is absolutely no way to know this. Just because he's been overweight historically doesn't necessarily mean he's genetically predisposed of a high BF %.

Still, this should be a very big challenge without the use of "mexican supplements". Good luck to them

For reference:
Here's a youtube vid of a guy with 10,8% BF on dexascan, and here's another one with 9.7%. As you can tell, results with dexascans are all over the place.

id u do not rise your basic metabolism by adding some (nobody talks bodybuilder here) muscles and keeping them while the loss, <10% on dexa means pure starving with all bad issues of undernutrition: hair loss, blood issues - iron deficit, bone issues, horrible loose skin, constant tiredness, bad concentration and depressive symtoms

In before Jaime turns up at a tournament sporting a new backpack fashioned from his excess skin.

OK, I'll rephrase my question. If I am 135 lbs now with 14 lbs of fat = 10.4% body fat, will adding 8 pounds of water make me have 14/143 = 9.8% body fat on the dexa scan?

Yes, this is exactly how it works, and I forgot to write about this in my original reply as an absolutely angle-able factor.

DEXA scans measure only 2 things:
1) skeletal weight,
2) fat
>> Everything else: muscle tissue, organs, stomach contents, etc just get lumped together essentially as being NOT one of the above 2 things, and often referred to as LBM (lean body mass), but that's a bit misleading since all the DEXA machine knows is that it's not bone or fat. (There's no way to get an accurate accounting of actual muscle tissue other than a full body biopsy (said tongue in cheek by my dexa tech friend), and yeah: good luck with that as a living human being.) For integrity of bet, parties should have insisted on doing it upon first waking up before any food/drink or the like.

i think DEXA-s official protocol is to do it in the morning with no food/water, so you cant manipulate that way.

perkins such an end boss

Getting below 10% body fat might not be possible for Jaime Staples. Genetics seems to play a large role in one's ability to go from 15%-5% body fat.

Anyone want to bet against me being sub 10% right now? Never tested.

Pics of your tits first please

It might be close to impossible but not due to genetics, but due to him being formerly obese. He may have a bunch of fat tissue that basically can't be gotten rid of, like in folds of loose skin. Yes, skin surgery is allowed but that still won't solve everything. I'm just thinking that the body after being obese once may have fat deposits that just don't really mobilize no matter how lean the rest of you gets, pretty much. At least it may not be fully fixable in the time frame allowed.

Matt just needs to get shredded though, obviously. Like any other normal guy who lifts weights and then decides to diet to really low bf%. He's basically a lock (though he will still look really skinny sub 10%, no joke, he doesn't have thaaat much muscle mass. Maybe Brad Pitt in fight club-ish but slightly more emaciated )

Just had an epiphany. Maybe Jaimes loose skin registers as lbm and with almost no added bodyfat, so removing it would essentially increase his bf%.

ive been waiting on you rich..




I'm officially gay sorry ladies. Pm me rich

I really hope Perkins essentially paying them to get into shape doesn't backfire. If they get close to the end and aren't going to make it, it would be really tempting to start using large amounts of fat burners/stimulants. Sure, no GH or steroids, but stimulants can really screw you up.

If Staples bros get DEXA scans right now and post them we'll be in better position to handicap this. Based on visuals, Matt is (or should be) a lock. Loose skin folds a legit wild-card for Jamie tho.

this perkins guy is nice!

It's not cultural appropriation because I'm 1/32 Chippawa Indian. Or something like that.

If you're actually that shirtless guy and you look like that, you're legit like 20% bodyfat not even joking.

maybe a tiny bit less but yeah definitely well above 10% lol

Yeah agreed that pic is 12 years old, I'm about 20-30lbs lighter and without an appendix now.

Haha yeah i remember now, Rich = #tinyman. aren't you like 5'7 and 110 lbs or something?

but yeah, prob still way over 10%

Sure there is. Assume genetics is a key. His brother was 135 as a walking around weight and they are about the same height. Staples genetics would be they are comfortably attuned to be a natural 135-150. Jamie after losing 100 lbs and cutting weight leaves him at 195 or so. He isn't skinny at that weight. He could still lose another 40 lbs comfortably and no one would be calling 911 trying to get him committed. His body has been 300 lbs for a while now because his hunger drove him to maintain that weight. I'm sure there are tricks and ways to get it done but he is a natural endomorph and despite all the fighting and dieting he always will be. It isn't as much a choice as people would believe. He doesn't really have any muscle to leverage against the fat loss that will need to happen.