12/15/2025
New year 2026 coming. Some will have goals to better their health, function, energy, strength, feel, and lose weight/body fat.
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Everyone has an ideal body weight and body fat % they feel and function at best. The idea is to not be too low and not too high. And what's ideal for each person, they will feel it once they are there.
Here's what a given body fat % looks like. Credit to Jeff Nippard's Youtube video that shows what each body fat % looks like on real subjects. I have screen shotted his participants. Search Jeff Nippard Body Fat Percent on Youtube for the video. Follow him. Respect to his great fitness content.
This post is for men. Next for women.
For men trying to get leaner, you can! But honestly to get visible abs, especially men 30+, for most, it's challenging, rare, and more rare to maintain year round for many years.
I've posted my picture as well at 10.9% body fat which is around my natural year round. All natural for life. I estimate 8-12% is my year round body fat % for my whole life. I was naturally leaner when I was younger but with age, and no longer being in my teens and 20s, I have gained a couple percent body fat.
For truth sake, a small amount of men 35+ that even reach 12% or lower are using gear/performance enhancing substances and often just holding these numbers temporary for special occasions.
You can get lean but know the truth that very lean meaning 12% or less at age 30+ is extremely difficult to achieve and more difficult to maintain because of biology.
Average body fat % for Canadian men 19%
Average body fat for American men 28%.
What body fat % do you think you are based on this?
What body fat % would you like to be in the new year that you think you would feel, look, and operate best at?