Why You Should Stay At 12% Body Fat Or Higher

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Why You Should Stay At 12% Body Fat Or Higher
What is the best body fat percentage for men?
For the vast majority of guys out there, 12-14% body fat strikes the ideal overall balance between muscle fullness, muscle definition, and optimal health and performance.

The fitness industry is rampant with obsessive physique neuroticism and the glorification of low body fat levels that just aren’t healthy for most people. I want to help push the narrative away from this “leaner is better” mentality and toward encouraging people to be comfortable carrying a bit more body fat rather than trying to stay super lean and ripped all the time.

This has nothing to do with laziness or mediocrity. It’s just about making a logical cost–benefit analysis and realizing that the overall upside of maintaining a more moderate body fat percentage outweighs the downside of trying to have a shredded body year round.

You will most likely feel better, be happier and have a better overall quality of life at 12 percent body fat (up to around 14% or 15% body fat), and possibly as high as 18-20% if muscle definition isn’t a huge concern for you but you still want to be healthy.

At a true 12% body fat, you’ll be leaner than 98% of the general population, you’ll have visible abs and you’ll look impressively lean to the vast majority of people. But the leaner you get, each percentage point of body fat requires disproportionately more effort and overall restriction.

If your goal is both to build a lean and muscular body AND to feel your best and have a good amount of lifestyle freedom (where you don’t have to be overly focused on everything you’re eating or actively restricting your calorie intake to uncomfortable levels), there’s a cutoff point where the drawbacks start to outweigh the benefits. For most guys, that’s around 12 percent body fat, and for women, it’s about 20% body fat.

It’s easy to assume that "leaner is better" when you’re constantly looking at Instagram content of guys with ripped physiques at sub 10% body fat, but keep in mind that that’s a big circle of physique competitors and people wanting to stand out and get attention to build a following and grow their business.

Once you understand that being really lean is actually just a form of controlled starvation and that people with shredded abs and striated glutes are often not in good health and often feel like crap, those lean physiques may not look as appealing anymore.

Your overall lifestyle will also improve if you stay in the 12% body fat range or higher. You won’t need to be as restrictive with your calories. You’ll be in a more balanced head space where you look good and are lean. And if you do go off track in the short term, it’s much easier to get back on track, and it won’t bother you as much mentally.

The point of fitness is to enrich your life and make you feel better about yourself. But if you get overly focused on trying to be lean all the time and fall for the marketing hype behind achieving 6% body fat or 8% body fat, it actually can have the opposite effect.
The key is to find the proper balance between muscle fullness, muscle definition, and feeling your best physically and mentally on a daily basis, and 12% body fat to around 14% body fat is where you'll strike that balance.

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